How was everyone’s thanksgiving? Did everyone get lots of their favorite food to eat. Taz and I did. We had some turkey and dressing but it was ordered in from a local restaurant near our house.
We had plans for that day and cooking wasn’t one of them, we worked on the 4Runner all day.
Taz and I have this saying…Nothing ever is easy or simple when we do things. It’s the ting yang theory in effect here. Ying = If things goes easy simple and for one person, Yang = things will not go smoothly or easily for another. We were the Yang.
Prinsu roof rack went up pretty smoothly. The light bar was a different story. It was assembled but there are NO instructions with any of this. It was a guessing game about which direction it should go in, which bracket to use, which bolt..etc. Now, you might say, oh go watch YouTube videos…well Taz watched tons of videos prior to us starting and everyone done it different. We did get it figured out.
Then came the wiring. Taz ordered a special bracket and a auxbox and there was issues with how to install the bracket to get it to fix with the auxbox we ordered. It was getting late so we decided to call it a night and eat our dinner.
The next day he ran to Lowe’s and harbor freight to pickup some things he needed to use to install the bracket and auxbox and to do the wiring. He got started on it and got most of it installed.
We also decided to try and put the Ironman 4x4 awning up. Pulled it out of the box, found all the gizmos to put it up. Again, no instructions…what is up with companies not giving instructions. But anyway. We put the brackets that hold the awning up and could not figure out which way the “finger” of the bracket needs to go. Either way it was not a good fit for my 4Runner. There was not enough clearance between the bracket and the car itself, I’m talking like maybe an inch, inch and half. Not enough for our comfort.
We called it a night, put everything away and went inside. We ordered more rapture lights and different brackets for the awning.
As of now, the roof rack is up and the ditch lights, and rapture lights are on and installed.
Waiting on the brackets to get in to finish the install.