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Being it is above freezing with some sun out this is not a shop day for me but I so look forward to closing this out. I am kind of tired of the smell of solder and heatshrink in the morning.

Putting thought to where I am at, I am going to buy a used 5sp auto and Tcase from out of the Northeast. I want the chance at clean parts to move forward with this. I could have gone with the 6 speed from the beginning but I chose to spend MANY hundreds of hours figuring out the wiring to get...

My wife and I are old school and grew up with manuals. Yah there have been years an automatic was a godsend. Mid '70s I had a very bad leg injury , my foot got trapped when I was moving at speed and it ruptured my Achilles tendon. One and half years on crutches, crutches had ice spikes. In time...

Ho Humm, just another ************ day in paradise. Project is progressing well, allot more wiring getting done. I found I had only gotten through about half of the wires on the transfer case, there are a few on these Gen 3 Tcases. That is fine, it took me better part of four days for my mind to get...

Sorry, missed your question some time back. No, no crush tube, The box tube is 2" .25 wall. This has a 1/2 bolt on each end to mount to the frame. The Monteros have a sleeved hole through the frame that is uniform from the earliest till the 2000 model. This winch and mount went into service in...

Ok, basic low end headlights.

When you state, Standard Halogen H4, are you referring to sealed beams or Carillo, Cibie or Marchal lights? These all have a hard cut on the low beam pattern.

I would love to learn from people with experience in really good old school high end lighting, just how far down the road these actually illuminate. Yes the nice white color is good, but I do not find the retrofit bulbs to focus properly and the pre assembled lamps to have quality beam pattern...

A bit more done, I am at a point to get the wiring back in my mind, it is nice to be checking systems and circuits out. I setup, propped up both of the factory fog lights and plugged them in for the first time, these will be nice. Got to check things like the transmission safety switch, some...

Starting to power some systems up for the first time, oh it is nice to have good hand warmers again. Even clicked the starter for the first time.

Question for those with experience in the newer winch controls, Till recently I have run the original two relays that came with my Ramsey REP8000 when I purchaced it in 1989, they no longer go click-click, dang change in the road salt in recent years. I am looking at the new style single unit...

Here is where I intend to mount the winch relay. After having a relay fail to the on position many years back that smoked the winch as well as the SR's battery, Luckily the alternator survived but towing a new to me boat home three hours in the dark only on the alternator is not a heartwarming...

Adam, as a followup on your thought of French headlights, those will more than likely not be sealed beam, they should be rather good quality replaceable bulb lamps with a very good beam pattern. Probably work very well for your need. Some of them ran a yellow capsule over the bulb. Do a search...

I need to scan photos from the film days, My Turbo monti ran the driving lights that are going on the Pajero now but with these spot lights up on the Thule rack overhead. These Super Oscar spots put light a mile down the road. I loved them when I used to run highways all night at high speed...

In all honesty I have never bought a sealed beam light for a vehicle. That is in 51 years I have never bought a sealed beam. If I were to do as you are thinking, I would look at buying a pair of gen 2.5 headlights in France. They might have a yellow guard over the bulb, but then I have a number...

The 2.5 fogs are just toys, too small, granted projector type could be retrofitted. These amber fogs are factory original to this rig and were originally mounted top of bumper where I originally placed the Hellas. I have mounted Hella projector driving and fogs on BMW motorcycles, They are toys...

Now that the sun is coming up here I am seeing the light, all right I'll shut up. I did a trial fitting with the fogs outboard a bit, A few issues, past experience when running rallys the lights in front of the wheels can not be kept clean. Other issue I see is they are mounting lower and in the...

Still a few hours before sunrise but I have one fog propped in place. I kind of like it but I can not run the factory under guard with them here, well unless I rework the guard around these. It is my intention these get removed for off road driving. I am going to look at mounting them outboard...

Long day, I disassembled the front bumper structure. The left side is all young parts, the frame bracket has a part lable on it still as do other pieces. I think the right is original. Whoever worked on this in the past has never heard of antisieze compound. I chose to either brake 10mm...

A bit more today, starting to get the front end closed out.