Alright guys, just a little tidbit here.
I'm sure you're gonna wonder about the back lighting on this grille and how it was done.
As you can see here, we're using an RGB strip. We've got it temp powered right now.
We're just illuminating the blue but we went behind the grille and wrapped the strip. So I turned
it off so you could see and basically what we've done, so taking the connection for the strip and
followed the OEM connection here. That way, when you take off the grille, the connection for the camera
goes over here and that's also where we're going to put a connection for these RGB strips,
and we just kind of went around the inside here and cleaned it up. We had to file down a little bit.
You can see here, we filed down a little bit of that but this is kind of how we did it. Now this
truck does have the camera, so we kind of bumped right over the camera there like that. We used
the 3m Adhesion Promoter. We drilled a hole here in this center, so we could go right through it, as you
can see there, and we went all the way around here like this. So this is how you install it.
Make sure you use the 3m promoter. Went right down onto this front lip right here,
all the way around, and you can see our connection points are here. This is the end of the strip.
This is the power wire of the strip and it just basically is one continuous loop.
So there wasn't much to it. The RGB kit for the grille is done like this
and the fenders, we're going to use about a 16 inch strip of the same RGB
strip lighting. So if you're interested in that lighting, we'll get it to you.
This is the back of the grille that I know everybody's going to want to see.
Hey, hey. Here's a little bit of further detail on the RGB strip we put in the snorkel. I know a
lot of you guys are interested in getting this snorkel, this nose, this nostril, this hood vent,
the scoop, whatever you want to call it, getting that off the truck. So let's talk about how you get
it off first. Underneath you see these studs right here, right. There's gonna be eight millimeter bolts
under the hood, four of them to be exact right here, and then you're also going to have some snap pins.
Look like that. Okay, now those pins are going to be
here, here, here, here, here, and here. Sometimes they break, so you may want to be very careful with that,
protect the paint. Use the little plastic pry bar, lift on it, try to be gentle. Snap them six pins
after you remove them four bolts, and then lift straight up and the chrome bezel and everything
will come off. Now if you don't have a diesel, you may not even have this inner scoop. I believe on
the gassers, the chrome bezel is just a solid back, it's one piece but now this is a diesel,
so it has the scoop. So for the ones with the scoop, this is where we mounted our 17 inch strip
right along the top here. It's just an RGB strip, 3m tape with the promoter, tucked it
right in here right under the front lip. We drill a tiny hole right there.
Don't forget to RTV silicone that hole up so the rain doesn't drive right in the tiny hole that you
drilled for the wire. You drill that tiny hole and the wire is going to come out underneath the hood.
It's going to come out of that hole there. You fish your finger around in there and find it. Now I'm
gonna put split loom on that wire and everything. That's 22-4 wire for your reference but I'm going
to split loom it. We're going to carry it down underneath the hood padding. We're going to go over
here, we're going to run down that shock absorber that lifts the hood. We're going to keep the hood
all the way extended. We're going to tape it all the way down the body of the shock right here and
then we're going to jump over into the hood cavity, under hood cavity over here, and that way, when that
shock collapses, the wire will fold up nicely and won't have any damage or any ill effects of having
that wire right there underneath the hood. Sorry about the washout but that's how we're doing it.