I am finally in the finishing stages of this project, I started it almost a year ago and have been plugging along a stage at a time. I still need to buy 2 more lights for the back of the rack, I dropped one and broke the lens :doh: they should be handy for those dark nights backing up the trailer.
I need to still route the wires in the cab and connect everything inside and I am also going to add a light on either side facing down to the doors when they are open.
I am happy to have it done but not 100% on how it looks from the sides, I guess when the rear and side lights are on it might look different?
If I had made it at work I would have done things a little different and would have a better finished product, but I used what I had to make it work.
I used ???? ft of 3/4 tubing (three trips to the metal mart)
an old conduit bender
grinder, welder, tape, square and my mill to cut all the center supports to size and radius with a 3/4 end mill for a parallel fit
mitre saw with a cut-off disk
black RTV
expanded metal
stainless handware
flat bar and some angle iron
Will post up the finished pics, enjoy I know I had fun
I need to still route the wires in the cab and connect everything inside and I am also going to add a light on either side facing down to the doors when they are open.
I am happy to have it done but not 100% on how it looks from the sides, I guess when the rear and side lights are on it might look different?
If I had made it at work I would have done things a little different and would have a better finished product, but I used what I had to make it work.
I used ???? ft of 3/4 tubing (three trips to the metal mart)
an old conduit bender
grinder, welder, tape, square and my mill to cut all the center supports to size and radius with a 3/4 end mill for a parallel fit
mitre saw with a cut-off disk
black RTV
expanded metal
stainless handware
flat bar and some angle iron
Will post up the finished pics, enjoy I know I had fun