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Ditch lights, bumper light bar and auxiliary tray are installed. Just waiting for @XxMagpulxX to go Martha Stewart on my shit and get it all dialed in.

If I find time tomorrow I’ll pull the dash apart and mount up my switches.

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jfc bro good luck over there. You ran individual switches?
 
That looks good man! Dont forget we will have to take that all apart again to run wires to the switches.
 
That looks good man! Dont forget we will have to take that all apart again to run wires to the switches.

I’ve run the wires to them but haven’t been able to connect them. The wires are for quick connect 3-prong switches and the switches I want to use are solder connect 4-prong.
 
that is no problem. we can make this happen. I can solder and solve this. And I have lots of connectors.
 
And on the 7th day

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Interior still looks like the Carter administration. Hopefully Keith can figure out my switch woes this weekend.
 
Yo it's looking so good!

That switch panel is gonna look sweet once all the switches are in it. You should get some audio from Knight Rider to go with the hidden lightbar and all the toggles :) "Hello Michael..."

even the upgraded horns look bad af behind the grill like that. Looking great man!
 
They need to make that voice an option to change Alexa to....or Siri...that would be awesome
 
Alright. So my issue with the switches that I wanted to use was getting the switch indicator light to turn on when I toggled it. After banging my face against a wall for 2 days I come to find out that I needed a diode placed in-line of the corresponding pin. After trying that out, it worked but I decided the red indicator light would be way too bright at night and the glare in my peripherals would irritate the hell out of me. So I tried my hand at soldering for the first time and put my interior back together - not easy to do with a 2 year old crawling all over you. I soldered an extra DMX connector I had onto a switch for a future scoop light so I won't have to access the back of that panel again. I'll still have two more empty switches for whenever I get around to doing rock lights and a chase light/rear bumper lights. As much of a pain in the ass these switches were, I'm very happy with them. The nylon is perfect match to the interior plastic and I wanted them to look OEM. I really like the Ford up-fitters, so this was as close to that as I could reasonably do.

Here's the full install:

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:cool: Just installed them, I'll post night shots later tonight.

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Here’s some day shots:

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This weekend I went H.A.M. detailing my truck and finally coated it with Feynlab ceramic. Hit the windows, paint, vinyl wrap, headlights and taillights, plastics, and even did the windshield wiper blades. Yesterday I removed the wheels and decontaminated them, then coated the faces and the drums. While they were off I coated the calipers, wheel well liners and all of my suspension parts, including my skid shield. Then I put two coats of ceramic on my tires. I also coated the wheel spacers, ditch lights and my new overland bars. Combined with the coated carpets, leathers and all of the plastics inside - this is officially the most hydrophobic Taco on the planet.

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This weekend I went H.A.M. detailing my truck and finally coated it with Feynlab ceramic. Hit the windows, paint, vinyl wrap, headlights and taillights, plastics, and even did the windshield wiper blades. Yesterday I removed the wheels and decontaminated them, then coated the faces and the drums. While they were off I coated the calipers, wheel well liners and all of my suspension parts, including my skid shield. Then I put two coats of ceramic on my tires. I also coated the wheel spacers, ditch lights and my new overland bars. Combined with the coated carpets, leathers and all of the plastics inside - this is officially the most hydrophobic Taco on the planet.

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Lol. I think I'll just repaint my Tacoma every ten years or so. And replace the interior at the same time
 
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