I finally started driving the Road Ranger again. The cam sync was the problem, & now I’m trying to shake off the dust from it sitting around mostly since August.
Other than routine maintenance, I finally aligned the new driving lamps. Halogen focus point amber driving lamps. I had them, but I would have bought them. When I go on the long trips through the hills and mountains, if there’s fog, I can’t see the road. Now I can.
I put in the new valance under the nose. I’ve driven with them a few times at night with the left blinding the guy coming at me, and the right side trying to dig a furrow 10 feet ahead of me. They’re so tight in the valence, I don’t think they’ll move, but I’m going to add a little E 6000 in a couple places to hold them in place.
Opposite that, on the top, I had put on some of those teardrop cab over lights when I was first building it. The aftermarket ones are just a piece of crap, and that’s being generous,no matter what I’d sourced. I thought I had replaced three out of the five, but when I was replacing them today, I realized I had already changed four out of five, and I think the center one got replaced two or three times. I gave up and bought the Chevy version, forgive me.
Half-and-half image, three new on the left.
The beauty is that those shorter wider lights still covered the drill holes in the roof from the teardrops, so no bodywork needed, no wasted rustoleum. So I put a good dose of E6000 over the old holes, and I was careful drilling the new holes, and the new lights I bought are fairly water tight above the roof. I was very careful putting down the foam mounting pad, and again I put E6000 on the holes, so I give them a 50-50 chance of not crapping out due to moisture.
The roof lights and the driving lamps, both the same color amber as the driving lights/turn signals.
The Chevy lights came with a wimpy LED, and I changed them to a brighter LED I had “in stock.
More to follow…
