so one thing i dispise is when i see or hear a car with a other wise ok to good sound system but yet they bothered to do no sound deadening or not attempt to dampen vibrations for say license plates... anyone else here know what im talking about? well while i have never heard it myself(probably because my music was always too loud) i decided to do something about this tonight. i was in the garage tinkering this afternoon and found some old self adhesive sticky foam strips(they came in some speakers i bought a while back). i knew i had these and knew what i was gonna use them for, but just didnt know where they were. anyhow i found them and went out to put them on. good thing i had lost track of them, cause my initial plan was to put them on the back of the license plate itself, well turns out that i have to turn in my plates in a couple months (every 7 years in WA you have to get new plates -its away of keeping plates clean, and ensuring that they stay reflective ect), so i put them on the bezel instead. i didnt get a chance to test it out as it was 8pm when i got this and another project done so i figured it might be a little late to blare some BlackStreet...
the other project i did tonight was replace and redo the wiring and horns(yeah i did just replace my horns earlier this year -horns and water dont mix for those that were wondering), anyhow picked up a new set of F-350 horns and rewired them. ive been on a crusade to rewire all my after market and in some cases factory plug-ins, converting them all to the GM weather sealed style plugs. thus giving me a leg up in the fuse war. i have shorted out several fuses relays by getting water in them... so this is my way of hopefully stopping that. every time i have to either remove something or unhook something i am replacing the hook ups with the new weather seal plugins i bought. (i bought like 30 of them, around $150 for everything, pins, both male and female, seals and housings, again both male and female). everything is looking so much cleaner and more uniform that before, when i had like 12 different styles of plug-ins. it actually looks like someone installed the accessories who knew what they were doing. also going through and adding wire loom to every thing as i go.
also had the truck aligned again today -the steering wheel was canted just slightly to the right, and the tech also brought things more into spec, although my caster is still out, but thats because of the lift, and not having UCAs and UBJs that can be adjusted or have greater range of motion. so yeah. but this alignment was free(toyota has a one year satisfaction on their alignments).
