Another week without wrenching...

I got very close to working on the truck this weekend.
The package for the truck sponsorship arrived midweek. I opened the boxes.
I passed my real estate examination, and as a treat to me and Veronica, I ordered some louvers to cut into the hood. They'll arrive middle of this week.

Between family commitments and chores, I worked on transferring my weight room back out into the garage and consolidating the 'shop' area. I parted with my longtime red toolbox and the metal 'work table', both of which I had bought second-hand on Craigslist. I later came to appreciate their inadequacies and got the most I could out of them. But when it came down to it, I was taking up a fair amount of space in the garage for a total of 4 drawers. I recycled them and got $9. Now this one kid at the recycling center came rushing out of the facility with his camera to take a picture of Veronica. He approaches her laughing saying something to the effect of, "That has to be the goofiest truck I've seen," later continuing, "It's nice but, dude, you need tires...baaaad."

I've heard the latter criticism before, and I believe it was justified; I was running the stock size tires with a total of 4"+ of lift. But we have since graduated to 33" and these are Wrangler Duratracs. So I replied that they are fantastic in the snow and have done well in most circumstances I've put them through. "Well what about mud?! They're terrible in mud." At this point, I think he's just repeating things he's read online. Granted, they are not a true M/T, but they have done fairly well in mud and perform much better in rain and snow than arguably any M/T which lacks siping ever could.

I don't take offense to the goofy part. I've got stuff on my pickup that people probably more so associate with Jeeps. And if one does not understand what the components do or why one might have them, it probably does look like someone's poorly thought out mall crawler. I think, at this point, there is probably very little that remains purely for novelty. Anything I've added is because I lacked it, and then encountered a situation where it would have been beneficial...at least in my mind.

So no real photos with this post, but next weekend will be pretty action packed in terms of cutting metal and wiring things up.

Agenda:
Re-wire in new PA speakers
Add rear bumper lights
Remove shark's teeth (hard to explain that one if you're just tuning in)
Swap out rear headache rack lights with front lights from the hi lift jack mount
Troubleshoot LED light bar
Install new sponsorship package
Cut-in Louvers for hood.

I may need to prioritize that list to make sure the more important items get done, but that's what I'm looking to tackle. I may have to start on some of that on week nights. We'll see.