Tag: how-to install

Pickups

How To Install A Rear Winch

Setting up rear winch power for pickups; Mile Marker and Fab Fours make the perfect team Rear-mounted winches are a rarity in the everyday world of pickup owners. For many, the thought of having electric winches front and rear is overkill. For some, however, a rear-mounted winch makes perfect work sense. In heavy construction and […]

September 21, 2015

Vocational

How-To: Easy Toolbox LED Strip Light Install

Light Idea: Access’ Flexible LED strips make excellent toolbox and service body compartment lights Lighting tool boxes is always a challenge. The light isn’t bright enough, it’s too bright, it’s difficult to wire in, or the light and switch you use succumb to the environment or vibration. We found a great solution: The Access Truck Bed […]

September 1, 2015

Pickups

LED Grille Install: 2014-Up Chevy Silverado

Rigid Industries LED spots are nothing short of amazing for reaching out and lighting up the road ahead at great distances.

August 18, 2015

Pickups

GM Duramax Exhaust Brake Install

Variable-vane controller allows the driver to choose multiple levels of engine braking and transmission downshifts to suit the towing situation

August 13, 2015

Pickups

Ram 2500HD Heavy-Duty Winch Bumper Install

A Road Armor front bumper and heavy-duty Warn winch add more than just looks to a work truck.

August 4, 2015

Pickups

No PAS, No Entry: Mechanical Air Shutoff Installation

Installing a Positive Air Shutdown system gets your work truck one step closer to contract work in mining, petroleum and forestry markets (By Bruce W. Smith/Senior Editor) PAS. It’s a small device that can be held in the palm of your hand, yet it’s the most important safety item on diesel pickups working within a number of […]

July 8, 2015

Pickups

Old dog, new trick: Towing heavy the easy way

Pickups and SUVs towing heavy equipment and utility trailers on the factory hitches, front ends high, rear suspensions sagging under the loads, is an all-too-common sight. This hitch install cures those issues…

June 16, 2015

Products

Product Review: PIAA LED Driving Lights

Letting high-tech PIAA LP550 LEDs light the road When the touch of a dash-mounted switch brings the sun out on a stretch of twisting, two-lane country road, the edginess of night driving is softened considerably. That’s what I found when I installed and tested a set of PIAA’s newest innovation in lighting products on a […]

May 20, 2015

Pickups

6″ Lift Kit Install: Chevy Dually

Lift Kit Helps Set Up Older Chevy Dually Service Truck For Off-Pavement Work Setting up a purpose-built service truck takes a lot of thought if time and money are to be well-spent. One area that needs to be addressed is the work environment and how the truck’s suspension and tires play into helping it get in and […]

May 18, 2015

Vocational

Bright Trailer Back Up Lights: Installing Rigid SR-M LEDs

Rigid’s SR-M LEDs produce a brilliant white light with a 60-degree wide beam pattern, which is just what you want when trying to back up an equipment trailer in the dead of night.

April 30, 2015

Pickups

How to align aftermarket fog lights

Adjusting fog (and driving) lights improves performance and keeps on-coming drivers from having their night vision impaired.

April 24, 2015

Pickups

Duramax Exhaust Manifold Upgrade: Big Bore Breathing

BD’s Big Bore exhaust manifold upgrade might be one to consider if you want your GM 6.6L diesels to be running full-bore when called to do so.

April 8, 2015