Looking super cool man! Quick thought, The holes in the roof rack (and possibly roof itself) running the wires for the bars may not feel rough, but overtime will wear into the wires and short them. I would drill a larger hole and run a rubber grommet around the wire for a water tight seal and a super clean look!
Those wires on the light bar are actually mostly rubber insulation. It's basically its own rubber grommet. I agree, looks bad on video but in person handling with the wires they are individually insulated like a normal wire and then wrapped in a very big, thick rubber insulation.
Brad Bonham You have to go through the trouble of taking the wire loose at one end and feeding it all the way back out the hole to replace the grommet, how does that logic work?
Well, if you don't want to splice new wires onto old wires keeping everything water tight over and over again, I don't think you want to pull the wire from the bar itself if it gets damaged either. It really comes down to if you want to replace just a grommet or an entire light bar. But either way, if something gets damaged, you're either fishing the wire back through, or cutting it, and Id rather keep original wires in one piece if possible.
Brad Bonham You do realize you can pull the wire back a little bit and add some electrical tape if you notice it's wearing thin. Not worth the argument tho, it's a wire to a car neither of us own for crying out loud.
300Six not really. Just use the paper he used on the windows to mask off the interior to paint the door seals, and he already took the trim around the radio off
Meh. It's a budget build. Wrap the blue trim and door seal areas in black vinyl instead. Skip the hassle of pulling panels and taping. Heck, pick up a run lol of "carbon fiber" vinyl if you want to get fancy.
I like this guy's build because he shows us how to save money unlike a lot of other sponsored off-road RUclipsrs out there who provide links to products that'll easily cost us thousands of dollars...
That looks so freaking good. The moment the taillights went in and the red contrasted from the black and the windows were showing through a darker, shinier black. Oh my...
in australia having a led light bar pointing behind you would get your car stickered unroadworthy in 5 minutes flat ...and thnats metric minutes too . love your work!
Hey, very nice FJ you got there. I had 2007 FJ for 6 years and it also was painted with raptor but mine was yellow (awesome). Anyways, FJ is a very simple and awesome construction. What's you should look out for is to be careful with wire harness. IT is very delicate and computer is very prone to engine check errors. When it goes, everything goes so at least it seems. When check engine light goes on most likely traction and stability lights will also go on. Normal. When you ,for example, take out you right seat all the light will go on. AIrbags, check engine, traction, etc. There is home made wire harness and a switch produced to fake signal from right seat. Get yourself onboard diagnostic monitor on OBDII. It will make your life easier. Also, when your cat's gone and it will be, sooner or later, you'll also get lots or check engine lights. You may also check engine bay side walls checked. Factory lower frame mounts are in a wrong place, causing side panels to bend over time. I also played with my radio and some time after airbags start to flash, LOL.
I'm a K5 Blazer guy. So Blazers, Boxers (dog), Beer, Boobies, Booze, etc for me lol. I had kind of written these new FJs off. But this one is killer. I think the paint schemes and base models turned me off to them originally. Keep up the good work and I'll be following this wicked (B)uild!
Hey Chris, As an fellow FJ owner, I want to let you to keep an eye on your headliner. If you didn't plug the hole you drilled into the water on the roof is going to leak into the inside of your FJ. It's a know issue when people remove and reattach their factory roof racks. A common solution that's done, is people use caulk to cover the hole and prevent water from leaking though. Can't wait to see more of the FJ project!
There are actually light bar mounts that mount to the front mounts of the roof rack that you can find online for fairly cheap. Makes it 10x easier to mount. That's what I used for mine
I see why it's cool to have remote on the lights, but I think simple switch inside the car is better option. One for the front and one for the rear. It is a system that basically cannot fail. Remote is always remote and it can fail. If you somehow could do both then it would be great, but thats not really possible. Those lightbars seem to be very bright, it's not very nice to get blinded by it when someone drives towards you. Maybe I'm just overthinking this, but I think switch is better.
I agree, but for a different reason... Remotes always end up getting lost or destroyed in vehicles- especially one that's gonna get beat on like I'm supposing this one will... A rugged switch can't fall between the seat, and get crushed when you slide or lean the seat forward (can you tell I'm speaking from personal experience? Lol)
It has been said, but it's worth repeating: paint / Plasti-Dip the door jams, behind the grille; use a proper fuse for the Light-Bars; drill a bigger hole for the wires and protect them with a rubber seal; ideally make the rack detachable in case it has to come off; use carbon fibre wrap on those interior panels, that are blue; mount the spare tire; clean the lower driver side; tint the windows & taillights; use a proper touchscreen Radio. Didn't like the bedliner paint, nur with a few more things it can definitely work out. You are doing awesome stuff on your builds and I think with a little bit more attention to detail they could all be flawless. Killed it with the Lotus though :) Keep it Up!
Chris, great content man! There are ways to run your secondary battery so that all your accessories run off of it, but it can be charged by your alternator at the same time as your primary, and without overloading either. That way you don’t have to worry about trickle charging the secondary after you use the lights.
It’s smart that you ended up not raptor lining the sliders.being a high wear tear piece your gonna want to repaint them and it’d be pain to have to raptor liner them again. Looks clean man good see you starting to like 4x4 yotas
wonderful. its very nice for my project for my nissan long terrano 2 with paint and light. hello from south of FRANCE. see you later and thank you for this video bro. bye. Ludovic
The truck looks super nice but I worry about it fading in 5 years. I think raptorliner can be painted over but I’d hate to have to remove it. That’s the main thing keeping me on the fence with a bedliner paint job.
Think about it with the doors open, that is a logical place where you would put your left foot to climb in. If it were further back you would need to use the right foot at which point it would be harder to get in that without it.
I figured it was so he could also use it to reach across the front in case he needs to clear the windshield of mud or something the wipers can't handle in the wilderness :o
Awesome. So when you're driving down the road at night and someone is behind you with their high-beams on, you can just wreck them with the rear light bar!
It might be to late but of you want to add some safety on the step rails get the liner and get harbor fright cheap sand blaster and the aluminum blast media. Spray the liner and while its wet spray the blast media now that have a grip step
make sure you use some sort of security screw/bolt on those light bars. They get stolen pretty regularly and are trivial to remove with normal hardware.
Shelby S I feel if he painted the door frames the same black as the other parts and painted the interiors with the bed liner it would really add to the look
If you go to walmart and buy a truck bedliner spray paint that inexpensive you can spray from a far distance on the truck and it will take out all the lines in the bedliner. Its what i had to do and it made all the bedliner perfectly even
I hope it doesn't fade on you like the rhino lining in my old crewman which had a lockable hardtop and rarely saw the sun cuz if it does you're going to regret doing the whole car in bedliner and fairly soon i'd imagine. Having said that it did its job like a champ protecting the tray.
We all have suggestions it seems. Now that I look at it, I think it'd look better with the fender flares in the satin paint for some contrast. I also kind of miss the white roof. It's a LOT of black. With that said, the tail lights stand out a lot, maybe tinting them is in order? Oh, yeah. Cover the rest of the blue! 😊
You can get single-DIN stereos from reliable manufacturers like Kenwood and Pioneer for not a lot more than these cheap dual-DIN units since dual-DINs are pricey no matter which brand. You'll also have a cubby space left since this setup can house up to dual-DIN
I dunno, tint looks great from outside but can be a pain to live with. Even with those light bars, it's a pain to see through at night. The PO of my truck did everything but the windshield super dark and it was like being in a cave until I took a razor blade to it.
Honestly, I'm liking this FJ build more than I ever thought I would
My boss has an FJ and this is our thing that we talk about during lunch when he walks into the lunch room haha.
ReesePuffSwag same here ☺👍
Bed line the blue stereo facia
Looking super cool man! Quick thought, The holes in the roof rack (and possibly roof itself) running the wires for the bars may not feel rough, but overtime will wear into the wires and short them. I would drill a larger hole and run a rubber grommet around the wire for a water tight seal and a super clean look!
Those wires on the light bar are actually mostly rubber insulation. It's basically its own rubber grommet. I agree, looks bad on video but in person handling with the wires they are individually insulated like a normal wire and then wrapped in a very big, thick rubber insulation.
Ive installed a few in my time, and one things for sure; it's a whole lot easier to replace a worn out grommet than a worn out cable :)
Brad Bonham You have to go through the trouble of taking the wire loose at one end and feeding it all the way back out the hole to replace the grommet, how does that logic work?
Well, if you don't want to splice new wires onto old wires keeping everything water tight over and over again, I don't think you want to pull the wire from the bar itself if it gets damaged either. It really comes down to if you want to replace just a grommet or an entire light bar. But either way, if something gets damaged, you're either fishing the wire back through, or cutting it, and Id rather keep original wires in one piece if possible.
Brad Bonham You do realize you can pull the wire back a little bit and add some electrical tape if you notice it's wearing thin. Not worth the argument tho, it's a wire to a car neither of us own for crying out loud.
You should paint the blue interior trim and door seals. It looks so weird with it blue now
yeah I'm surprised he didn't do that, looks unfinished now
he would have to pretty much rip the whole interior out to paint the door seals, or spends hours masking every little bit off,
300Six not really. Just use the paper he used on the windows to mask off the interior to paint the door seals, and he already took the trim around the radio off
Meh. It's a budget build. Wrap the blue trim and door seal areas in black vinyl instead. Skip the hassle of pulling panels and taping. Heck, pick up a run lol of "carbon fiber" vinyl if you want to get fancy.
Do a quick disconnect plug under your roof rack. just in case you need to pull it off and your light bar is attached
This is my favorite build so far. I love the bed liner idea. It looks so much cleaner. Now the light bars are really upping the coolness.
since you've got a shit load of cars, you should do a car for Chelsea, make it the way she wants it. I reckon that would be a cool idea!!
I like this guy's build because he shows us how to save money unlike a lot of other sponsored off-road RUclipsrs out there who provide links to products that'll easily cost us thousands of dollars...
I am watching trough this guys old videos and the amount of builds he has done is insane.
B IS FOR THE BEST ON RUclips
u rite
That looks so freaking good. The moment the taillights went in and the red contrasted from the black and the windows were showing through a darker, shinier black. Oh my...
Bro u should also consider cleaning that bay.
Android Y Curiosidades Chris Fix to the rescue?! LoL
American Patriot fuck yeah 😂😂😂 common tools including a brush made out of unicorns hair
in australia having a led light bar pointing behind you would get your car stickered unroadworthy in 5 minutes flat ...and thnats metric minutes too . love your work!
Hey, very nice FJ you got there. I had 2007 FJ for 6 years and it also was painted with raptor but mine was yellow (awesome). Anyways, FJ is a very simple and awesome construction. What's you should look out for is to be careful with wire harness. IT is very delicate and computer is very prone to engine check errors. When it goes, everything goes so at least it seems. When check engine light goes on most likely traction and stability lights will also go on. Normal. When you ,for example, take out you right seat all the light will go on. AIrbags, check engine, traction, etc. There is home made wire harness and a switch produced to fake signal from right seat. Get yourself onboard diagnostic monitor on OBDII. It will make your life easier. Also, when your cat's gone and it will be, sooner or later, you'll also get lots or check engine lights. You may also check engine bay side walls checked. Factory lower frame mounts are in a wrong place, causing side panels to bend over time. I also played with my radio and some time after airbags start to flash, LOL.
I'm a K5 Blazer guy. So Blazers, Boxers (dog), Beer, Boobies, Booze, etc for me lol. I had kind of written these new FJs off. But this one is killer. I think the paint schemes and base models turned me off to them originally. Keep up the good work and I'll be following this wicked (B)uild!
Tinting the for indicators and tail lights would suit the look so much
I think your FJ looks amazing. I also want to say you have helped give me more motivation to do more work myself on my Jeep WJ.
This is badass, paint the door frames from blue to saftey orange 😎
I'm so jealous of your confidence in your ability to do things on cars without instructions.
Hey Chris,
As an fellow FJ owner, I want to let you to keep an eye on your headliner. If you didn't plug the hole you drilled into the water on the roof is going to leak into the inside of your FJ. It's a know issue when people remove and reattach their factory roof racks. A common solution that's done, is people use caulk to cover the hole and prevent water from leaking though.
Can't wait to see more of the FJ project!
There are actually light bar mounts that mount to the front mounts of the roof rack that you can find online for fairly cheap. Makes it 10x easier to mount. That's what I used for mine
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“Homework can wait”
I always thought the fj was cool but that thing looks sick!!
Happy to see you painted behind the fuel cap!
LOVING THIS BUILD
That camera on the escalator shot was sick
I see why it's cool to have remote on the lights, but I think simple switch inside the car is better option. One for the front and one for the rear. It is a system that basically cannot fail. Remote is always remote and it can fail. If you somehow could do both then it would be great, but thats not really possible. Those lightbars seem to be very bright, it's not very nice to get blinded by it when someone drives towards you. Maybe I'm just overthinking this, but I think switch is better.
Lightbars are not for road use. Just off roading
DG also the FJ has numerous spots too add extra switches that will look factory.
I agree, but for a different reason... Remotes always end up getting lost or destroyed in vehicles- especially one that's gonna get beat on like I'm supposing this one will... A rugged switch can't fall between the seat, and get crushed when you slide or lean the seat forward (can you tell I'm speaking from personal experience? Lol)
It's easily possible DG, not an issue to do at all
B is for BADASS! The FJ is looking sweet!
Is there anything this guy can’t do?... geez. Awesome!!
With that radio, run a higher gauge wire directly from the battery to the accessory wire (not the constant 12V) going to the radio.
B is for bright. B is bi-battery. All jokes aside that came together as your best looking project yet. I wanna rhino line my car now.
It has been said, but it's worth repeating: paint / Plasti-Dip the door jams, behind the grille; use a proper fuse for the Light-Bars; drill a bigger hole for the wires and protect them with a rubber seal; ideally make the rack detachable in case it has to come off; use carbon fibre wrap on those interior panels, that are blue; mount the spare tire; clean the lower driver side; tint the windows & taillights; use a proper touchscreen Radio.
Didn't like the bedliner paint, nur with a few more things it can definitely work out. You are doing awesome stuff on your builds and I think with a little bit more attention to detail they could all be flawless. Killed it with the Lotus though :)
Keep it Up!
Chris is one hardworking and dedicated youtuber!
My favorite car of all time
Chris, great content man! There are ways to run your secondary battery so that all your accessories run off of it, but it can be charged by your alternator at the same time as your primary, and without overloading either. That way you don’t have to worry about trickle charging the secondary after you use the lights.
It’s smart that you ended up not raptor lining the sliders.being a high wear tear piece your gonna want to repaint them and it’d be pain to have to raptor liner them again. Looks clean man good see you starting to like 4x4 yotas
Best part about the rear bar is you can turn it on when someone is high beaming you :)
Wow looking amazing
With the first black light it looks 🤯
wonderful. its very nice for my project for my nissan long terrano 2 with paint and light. hello from south of FRANCE. see you later and thank you for this video bro. bye. Ludovic
Glad to see that you did catch the need to retouch the paint job. My OCD was cussing like a sailor lolol.
This look sick. Would be so great for back logging roads in BC
The truck looks super nice but I worry about it fading in 5 years. I think raptorliner can be painted over but I’d hate to have to remove it. That’s the main thing keeping me on the fence with a bedliner paint job.
I loved the Evora but I think this is one of your best builds EVER. Looks badass!!
Curiosity, but why did you put the step so far forward? It looks like you're climbing onto the windshield more than inside.
Think about it with the doors open, that is a logical place where you would put your left foot to climb in. If it were further back you would need to use the right foot at which point it would be harder to get in that without it.
I suppose. It just appeared to be about 4" too far forward for my liking.
To each their own!
D'Montae McWillie I agree. Seems like it should be back like 3-4"... To each their own tho
I figured it was so he could also use it to reach across the front in case he needs to clear the windshield of mud or something the wipers can't handle in the wilderness :o
D'Montae McWillie haha glad I’m not the only one. “Literally thought omg what is he doing?”
EZ headlight restore can be done with plexiglass cleaner/conditioner. I use it for my motorcycle windshield too.
Dude you should use Niteshade to black out the front amber lights and the rear tail lights. It’ll look so much more badass. Keep it up bro👍🏼
I'm loving this build a lot
Loving the FJ project.
Awesome. So when you're driving down the road at night and someone is behind you with their high-beams on, you can just wreck them with the rear light bar!
It might be to late but of you want to add some safety on the step rails get the liner and get harbor fright cheap sand blaster and the aluminum blast media. Spray the liner and while its wet spray the blast media now that have a grip step
FJ Feels like one of your best builds
make sure you use some sort of security screw/bolt on those light bars. They get stolen pretty regularly and are trivial to remove with normal hardware.
Girls always so expressive.....so excited....
paint door frames under the hood n rino flex the interior plastic would look sk good !
Chris Fix also has a video about how to clean an engine bay ;)
Will you paint the door frames? (the inside portion)
and under the hood... at least a quick fog job
And the interior plastics
I kinda like it like that
4:53 And wash the motor?
Shelby S I feel if he painted the door frames the same black as the other parts and painted the interiors with the bed liner it would really add to the look
Hands down the best looking FJ I’ve ever seen. I’m usually not a fan of FJs bc I’m a jeep guy but I would drive this sucker.
This is so sick. Need to start doing more to my fj!
Use black silicon around where the wires go into the roof rack just to ensure no water gets in
Clean that engine bay! 😜
Chris Fix has a great vid on that.
absolutely love this build. Planning to start one of my own pretty soon
If you go to walmart and buy a truck bedliner spray paint that inexpensive you can spray from a far distance on the truck and it will take out all the lines in the bedliner. Its what i had to do and it made all the bedliner perfectly even
Man... That FJis looking so sweet. Love the channel
The bed liner paint actually works really good on it
Great job Bud I never thought I'd see an fj look so cool
I vote in favor of keeping the door sills and under the hood blue. Uts a nice contrast.
You should paint the wheels glossy black, it would make a nice contrast.
You should put the bed liner spray on the cross bars from the roof rack.
Painting the radio faceplate with bedliner would look sick.
Go ADVENTURES with this Cruiser ! 🏞
We out here
Looking forward to the next episode, thinking about putting in a 2 battery system.
This is much better than the BRZ episodes.
Don't care about the door frame, it's not a show car ...
But you paint the inside of the gas door, and that is great ! ;)
Looks awesome!
Love the look of it at PDX!!!
Watching your video makes me miss my fj
all i can think about is that foot step getting caught on things when you are doing serious offroading lol
Just watched the last part....glad to see this part up so quickly... shit looks awesome
this thing looks sweet
Hey chris- steel wool and water will get those numbers off your window no problem :)
Brother b pillar is blue and u can still see it through the window. Otherwise......... DOPE!!
I strongly recommend replacing the fairlead on the winch. The bedliner will destroy the synthetic winch rope.
I hope it doesn't fade on you like the rhino lining in my old crewman which had a lockable hardtop and rarely saw the sun cuz if it does you're going to regret doing the whole car in bedliner and fairly soon i'd imagine.
Having said that it did its job like a champ protecting the tray.
We all have suggestions it seems. Now that I look at it, I think it'd look better with the fender flares in the satin paint for some contrast. I also kind of miss the white roof. It's a LOT of black. With that said, the tail lights stand out a lot, maybe tinting them is in order? Oh, yeah. Cover the rest of the blue! 😊
Portland! Hope to see you drive by I’m trying to do the same style
You should wire the second battery to the alternator so it would help in the long run.
Crazy how fast tracked this project was.
Inside of the doors are still blue :o
You can get single-DIN stereos from reliable manufacturers like Kenwood and Pioneer for not a lot more than these cheap dual-DIN units since dual-DINs are pricey no matter which brand. You'll also have a cubby space left since this setup can house up to dual-DIN
Tinted windows would look a lot better
Limo tint
I dunno, tint looks great from outside but can be a pain to live with. Even with those light bars, it's a pain to see through at night. The PO of my truck did everything but the windshield super dark and it was like being in a cave until I took a razor blade to it.
High quality tint is that hard to see through; I have 30% and 15% in the back and its great.
I have 20 all the way around on ky truck and 15 on my car and ive never had any issues but ive always had it so im use to it
Have u tryed to off road with tints it’s a bitch
That step looks upside down to me. The other side of the dimple die would have more traction?
HAHAHAHA
exactly. it should be over the rockslider and welded from beneath
It looks like it was meant to go the other way but I don't think it matters much
Awesome!
That step's gunna be nicknamed The Shin-Splitter
Maroon scuffing pad makes deeper scratches easier.
should've used the raptor liner for the roof rack also. FJ looks awesome tho.
Car loos good! But chris, the light bar is gonna short out after some time. The cable needs a nipple for protection against the metal!!
You should spray some clear coat UV in a rattle can to the headlights.
Now this is the build show i missed!