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Push Bar/Update Post 96

Push Bar

  • I Like It

    Votes: 9 31.0%

  • It's ok

    Votes: 14 48.3%

  • I hate it

    Votes: 4 13.8%

  • NEKKID

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
well since everyone is done making fun of the tree catcher.

here is a surrious photochop, i think this is how i am gonna mount my lights the rectangle one are fog the others are driving.
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DITCH THE PUSH-BAR,No matter what color you paint it, What was cool in the seventies doesn't mean it needs to go back on it today. they were cheaply made then and it still shows today. Your rig looks too nice to have that trash bolted to it.
 
Understated looks cleaner IMO. The two HID on the bar looked good. Anything beyond that is an 80's redo. EDIT: I agree with buefchris. I missed his opinion. I thought it was a sig line until I reread the post.
 
buefchris said:
DITCH THE PUSH-BAR,No matter what color you paint it, What was cool in the seventies doesn't mean it needs to go back on it today. they were cheaply made then and it still shows today. Your rig looks too nice to have that trash bolted to it.
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well i like it, its my truck so my opion is all that matters.

FYI this thing is solid, the other day i pushed a friends truck were the rear emd was locked up.:doah:
 
one other question, Am i gonna need a bigger alterantor, i got a 63amp on there now. If I run the 4 lights any recomendation on size? I got a optima if it helps any
 
1978Blazerk5 said:
one other question, Am i gonna need a bigger alterantor, i got a 63amp on there now. If I run the 4 lights any recomendation on size? I got a optima if it helps any
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Lordie yes, get a bigger alternator. No matter the size of your battery, if your alternator isn't up to snuff, the battery will eventually drain. The battery should only be used for starting, and should get charged back up while driving -- i.e. you should NEVER be running on the battery while running.

So, lessee... four lights @ ~5A each is 20A. That's presuming they're 55W and really draw that little. The HEI wants maybe 10A, I seem to recall. headlights are another 10-20A with highbeams, so we're up to 50A already.

Note your alternator will only put out its peak ~60A at high RPM's, so if you're idling around town in the dark, you're not getting much, if any charge out of it ... if it's only putting out, say, 30A and you've got the headlights on, you'd be lucky to get a coupla amps out of it to charge the battery... six stops on a shopping trip and your battery is down to half or two-thirds charge, just like that.

Anyway, you get the idea ... bigger alternator is necessary if you're gonna RUN those lights.

And aesthetically I don't see the issue -- what's wrong with a 70's/80's truck being stuck in the 80's? :dunno: Hell, I liked the lightbar ... I built one just like that for my truck :deal:

And your mounting actually is tidier than the one I did, back in the day, for the Burb my evil ex-wife kept:

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First: Nice truck!

Second: "Retro" is ok...not my thing, but when done correctly it can be cool. Starting with a clean rig like yours is a good start!

Third: As for the solidity of that pushbar... yeah, you may have pushed a friend's truck, but wait until you try to attach a strap or cable to that to have a friend pull you over a boulder... not so much with the solid then.

On the other hand, if you're not doing that sort of wheeling, it serves its purpose!

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what you do to your own truck as long as you DO SOMETHING other than just drive it! Trucks that obviously have time, work, and care put into them are (almost) always cool.
 
dremu said:
Lordie yes, get a bigger alternator.
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well i just got back from the battery store, they tested the alternator its only putting out about 45amps:eek1:, they recomended a 93 amp, wich is $120 and i might do a dual battery setup.
 
I want another clean Blazer to bolt goodies onto . Not for rockcrawling , but for looking cool and showing up where all the cars are on a Friday night with the wife and sit around while people look it over .

I remember the 80's real well :bow:

Contrary to what Ralph Macchio's characters teacher at Juliard in Crossroads said , you can serve two masters :wink1:
 
1978Blazerk5 said:
well i just got back from the battery store, they tested the alternator its only putting out about 45amps:eek1:, they recomended a 93 amp, wich is $120 and i might do a dual battery setup.
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You should be able to get an stock alternator from a Caddy that's 80-90A for a lot less than that... oughta be a drop in. ::dunno:: I can dig up a part # prolly if you need it.

Dual battery is a good idea; a battery isolator, however, is key ... you run the engine and maybe the stock headlights, i.e. the original stuff off the one battery ... then all your auxiliary stuff, lights, etc on #2. However, this still won't solve the charging problem of a weak alternator: while the truck is running, it'll want to charge both batteries.

Isolators stand out when you're doing stuff with the engine off, like lighting up the campground, someone else's recovery, or running your own winch, say ... then you can KILL the secondary battery to nothing and still start the truck. (Though you'd best have a deep-cycle battery or it gets expensive quickly =))

Isolators are not so great when you're running the truck, i.e. the alternator is putting out juice ... it still has to charge both ;)

Anyway, point being, (1) replace/upgrade the alternator and then yep, (2) consider beefing up the rest of the system. Honestly, for four lights, a big alternator and a good primary battery will do you fine, as long as you're not running the lights for hours with the motor off.

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Push bar looks good now that it's been restored. I'd lose the rainbow flag though. Give it back to Gus...:D
 
Desert Yeti said:
First: Nice truck!

On the other hand, if you're not doing that sort of wheeling, it serves its purpose!
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Thanks

Basicaly aint doing anything to hardcore, maybe just screw around in some mud or go for a mild trail ride, but i want some lights because this is my daily driver.
 
dremu said:
Dual battery is a good idea; a battery isolator, however, is key ... you run the engine and maybe the stock headlights, i.e. the original stuff off the one battery ... then all your auxiliary stuff, lights, etc on #2.

Isolators stand out when you're doing stuff with the engine off, like lighting up the campground, someone else's recovery, or running your own winch, say ... then you can KILL the secondary battery to nothing and still start the truck. (Though you'd best have a deep-cycle battery or it gets expensive quickly =))

Isolators are not so great when you're running the truck, i.e. the alternator is putting out juice ... it still has to charge both ;)
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So with a isolator how do you wire it. and does it just work off of a switch or something?

I do already have a deep-cycle battery in my truck.
 
dremu said:
And aesthetically I don't see the issue -- what's wrong with a 70's/80's truck being stuck in the 80's? :dunno: Hell, I liked the lightbar ... I built one just like that for my truck :deal:
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That lightbar i kinda like but at the same time i don't. I like the one you have on your truck. I like most of the styling in the 70's and 80's everything was so simple and clean. what i didnt like about the 80's is like 6 multi-colored shocks on one side, and ect.
 
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