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Ryoken's 89 Crew Cab Tubebed build... aka Mutt....

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yeah, but what made the Cougars legal back in the day.. gotta go look at a vid of em...



this might be a solution..... I'm guessing it would be considered high enough...



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well, technically, I wouldn't need it.. the rig did not have one originally... and neither does a late 60's cougar with sequentials...

doesn't show brakes, but you can tell from 1/2 way thru when he has the lights on, that it's just the one side that "brake lights"...


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and technically, in that tubegate space, would be legal..
the lower edge of the CHMSL may be just above the left and right lamps' upper edge.
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it is above the taillights... :whistle:

I may go for this.... I do love the spacing of the 5, vs 6.... it would be a bit more subtle when off, just park, just brakes, etc.. but neat when blinking..
 
Yep, I had just read that part about the trucks having it introduced in 1994. So you're technically "exempt"

ryoken said:
I may go for this.... I do love the spacing of the 5, vs 6.... it would be a bit more subtle when off, just park, just brakes, etc.. but neat when blinking..
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Agreed! Its like a sneak attack of awesome. At first glance you have a awesome truck with a schweet bed/tube work/everything....then the turn signals get hit and its a punch in the face of pure badarse! :haha::haha::pimp:
 
They make all sorts of exceptions to high mount third brakelight. Technically a center mounted low light counts for later model trucks. Ive been driving the work truck around with the third brake light covered for months and no one has said a thing.

And no, you dont have to have one light that remains brakes, although that could be cool with 3 sequentials off of it. But that would require wiring the third brake light lead back to those 2 lights. :doah:
 
dabomb6608 said:
Agreed! Its like a sneak attack of awesome. At first glance you have a awesome truck with a schweet bed/tube work/everything....then the turn signals get hit and its a punch in the face of pure badarse! :haha::haha::pimp:
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:haha: nice......


you made my sig... :waytogo: :haha:





Stomis said:
They make all sorts of exceptions to high mount third brakelight. Technically a center mounted low light counts for later model trucks. Ive been driving the work truck around with the third brake light covered for months and no one has said a thing.

And no, you dont have to have one light that remains brakes, although that could be cool with 3 sequentials off of it. But that would require wiring the third brake light lead back to those 2 lights. :doah:
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I would just go for the 4 per side.... I think it would be a cleaner look while operating... if I felt it could use it for safety reasons, I'll add the 3rd to the tubegate.. would just need a 2 plug weatherpack so I could disco it for gate removal...
 
Do you have a full rear shot of the truck where you could see more of how it will look with the tail lights and then showing where the rear facing lights on the C-hoop will be? Curious how it will all come together.
 
Yeah, I think those look great. It will look fantastic once you get the tail lights and rear visibility lights finished.
 
thanks.. :D

so I'm looking at $175 for the lights with everything... and $80 for a sequencer... gonna be a few weeks on that one.. gotta focus on getting the alum first...

man, can't wait to get back to making money.... :pimp:
 
Are you really going to do the sequencer? It seems a little kitschy. One more item to fail on a pretty bulletproof truck.
 
any more so than putting ambers in the mix? I'm thinking of it.. pretty sure I can make it switchable too if I want...

obviously everyone has different opinions and no matter what I do a certain % of guys in here are going to hate it.. too big, too not stock, yada, yada..

I highly doubt anyone who see's the rig is gonna roll their eyes and go "that's ghey" when I hit my turn signals..
 
Yeah - that's the thing - at the end of the day you gotta do what makes you happy! Don't worry about us, we just wish it were our truck ;)

I don't like sequenced lights - but that is a personal thing. I do think they are kinda cool on the newer muskrats, but I'll hold judgement until I see what your rig looks like :D
 
Stomis said:
Do sequenced lights. If anyone asks tell them you dont know its done that since it ate a mustang once.
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:haha: backed over it... ;)


I think it could be neat for this rig.. the whole series of angled lights is just screaming for it... and I actually like the subtlety of it looking pretty "normal" 80% of the time...


as I said, the most important thing to me is proportion, the lights need to fit the panel/space right.. and 6 is just a bit cluttered... and with 5, the 3 color #'s just don't work out to my liking... 2, 2, 1, etc...


I'll see, wont be doing anything till I get the alum, and actually get to those panels.. #1 priority is all the upper stuff, 2 main decks, tubegate, coffin walls and floor... THAN I'll worry about the 4 bent pieces... :doah: :haha:



glad this got hashed out now tho... think a lot of good ideas came up and we vetted a bunch of stuff... I wanna thank everyone for all the great input... :waytogo: :bow:







in all this blinking mayhem :haha:, does anyone have any thoughts on my proposed storage?

I forgot to mention in that, that the hanging ps box is obviously for the dual bats.. but the ds lower is going to be for winch accessories, straps, chains, come-a-long, ratchet straps, etc...


the challenge is going to be the loose handtool drawer.. magnetic socket holders, probably magnetic liners of some sort.... hmmm, there's a good search subject for me... can't say I've ever looked that up before! :haha:
 
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