I had a similar problem in my jeep I checked everything and finally gave up and took it in. It ended up being old wiring for my trailer hitch apparently it had been cut and the wires were causing a short.

 

Got some more work done today. I managed to finish up the drivers and passenger end caps and got one of the tail lights in place.





Marked out the spot for the tail lights.



Tail light in place



That was all I got done today. Took a lot to cut those oval holes in that 1/4 place that I used for the end caps. I was looking at the front of the jeep today and I notice that my drivers tire was cambered in a little bit. What would cause this?


Matt

 

looks good. are you going to leave it open in the back?

 

Unit bearing or ball joints would cause the tire to lean in. Worst case seniareo, bent axle tube.

 

wow looks impressive i really like how its turning out!

my passenger tire does the same thing your driver tire does i havent found the true cause of it yet i did look at bearings and the joints but no luck

i was wondering if you had any plans on making the doors either half doors or fabbing up some way to make them easy to remove??

 

Looks good, man! Keep up the good work! Do you plan on eventually doing a full cage?

 

improper toe in

 

As of right now I'm thinking of leaving it open and making some sort of wind jamer rear wall thing.

I'll take a look at the ball joints and bearings. I don't think the toe is adjusted wrong, it was fine when i started the project and all I've done it driven it up the street and few times. Who knows though guess I'll take a look

I do want to make a set of half door maybe with soft uppers. I'll also keep a set of full hard doors around and make them removable. But that will only happen if I can find another set of 2 door doors.

As for a cage I have no idea yet. I kinda want to do a exo cage, but I might just do a Roll Bar out the back for now. All depends on what the Wallet will allow for.

So today when I was cleaning up the garage a bit I found my set of KC Day lighter knock offs and was thinking, Those would look pretty bad *** flush mounted were the stock square head lights are. What do you think?

Matt

 

Well guys I need your help again.... I'm trying to wire in those tail lights. They are a Stop Turn and Marker all in one. There are 3 wires, 1. Ground (white), 2. Stop Turn (Red), 3. Tail(black). On the truck side the wires are as followed, Signal (Brown), Running light (Blue), Brake (Blue/Black), Ground (Black). So I figured I would wire it up like so.... Red --> Brown, Blue/Black. Black --> Blue, and White --> Black. Now for the most part this works. The only problem is When you press the brake the front running lights turn on (both Sides) and when you have the running lights on and press the brake nothing happens. On the package it says that they are compatible for truck, trailers and many other applications. Would love some help fixing this problem.

Matt

 

Here is a pic of my buddies chop top 4 door, My 2 Door chop, and my car



Oh and you can't forget the 1st injury on any build. After I welded up on of the end caps I grabbed the bed rail to help myself up because I was sitting on the ground. When I was getting up my arm twisted and touched the nice hot metal and burnt it quite nicely.
Here is a link just in case you done wanna look...
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...t/IMG_1032.jpg

 

thats sweet lookin chop. Nice battle scars!

 

At least you'll always have something to remember your chop top by and all the blood, sweat, and tears you put into it. Or in your case...err, uh...first couple layers of skin.

 

You can buy a trailer converter, or wire in two sets of tail lights PER SIDE, thats what my buddy did.

 

Looks like an apple.

s

 

Thanks guys. So I ended up returning those oval tail lights. I had tired a few different converters but none seemed to work for me. I think I have narrowed it down to some small round lights. I have found some 2" LED marker lights for a good price. I would run 3 down each side but what I can't decide is do I want to do 3 red or 2 red and 1 amber?

Witch side do you like better. All Red or Amber and red?
Or, Oval with amber round lights under for signals?


Matt