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Old Jan 23, 2013 | 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by rexmburns
I just went with this cause it was cheap and matches pretty close. I have no complaints besides when they roled it I had one spot with a small crease but once I stretched and glued it it went away without issue. It stretched around and over the curves and egdges really well to. 1 yard was all I needed for the back.
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Old Jan 24, 2013 | 08:12 AM
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Yeah for the price I do don't have any complaints. Its actually a tad thicker than I expected it to be.
 
Old Jan 31, 2013 | 07:19 AM
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Hey REX quick question for you. going back quite a bit, did you use a roller on your bedliner? it looks really even, and uniform.
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Old Feb 1, 2013 | 07:02 AM
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Yeah I used the roller that came with the monstaliner kit.
 
Old Feb 1, 2013 | 12:49 PM
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Well its only taken me most of the week working on it here and there but I finally have all of my wiring complete!! I made a total of 6 wire harnesses for the project but it was well worth it cause everthing is nice and tidy and looks nice. I didn't get pics of all the harnesses I made cause it was cold and I didn't even think to take pics
We will start with the switches I suppose.



And then I also restretched and fixed the top of the switch panel so it looks better. This is with all the wires attached and tucked away
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Then under the hood I made up a small spot to mount some relays and keep them out of the way. They are all wired and all I have to do is run one power wire to the relay and whatever I connect to it and I'm done for the additional two relays I am going to add one more relay I just didn't have one at the time but it will be coming and the wiring is already there from the swtich for it as well.

And heres a shot of the whole engine bay after everything is wrapped and cleaned up

Then on the roof I ran the wires through a hole I drilled under the support leg for the factory roof rack so that no wires would be running through doors and looking out of place. I decided to use "2 flat" connectors on everything cause they serve their purpose and they were only $3 a piece at Advance Auto.

I used the same connectors for all of the lights as well so now it is set up that I can remove my enitre roof rack by just unplugging one connector or I can remove lights individually if necessary.

The connector tucks away nicley inside the rail and is hidden away a bit.

And after all of that this is what I ended up with.
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Old Feb 1, 2013 | 01:03 PM
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Looks good! Any plans to label the switches, or just going to remember which is which?
 
Old Feb 1, 2013 | 01:10 PM
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Yeah I'm searching for a non cheesy way to label them. For right now I only have two things running off of them so I know which is which but I will need to do something for sure I'd hate to have the wife throw on the roof lights at night and blind someone lol!
 
Old Feb 1, 2013 | 03:16 PM
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looks good! Wanna wire my lights to!!???!!?
 
Old Feb 1, 2013 | 03:37 PM
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Thanks!! Haha it took way longer than I wanted to but I wanted it done right so I don't have to worry about touching it later.
 
Old Feb 5, 2013 | 12:54 PM
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Well I came back to work late last night to drop off my work truck and decided since it was dark out I would drive down in the woods and see how well my new lighting setup worked. Heres a couple pics.
Sorry for the crappy iphone pics! The manhole is about 50 yards away.
Factory high beams

The same zoomed in a bit

2 Prerunner bar lights and factory highs

The same zoomed in a bit

2 prerunner bar lights factory highs and three roof lights

The same zoomed in a bit

I want to add two flood pattern lights to the roof in between the two outer spots but I'm happy for now.
 
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