What did you do to your Ranger today?

[OGMix376]

Not NOT NOT laughing at da poor widdle kitty. So glad he'll be ok. The things we do for our furry family members.

But LOL I am! Love your write up. Honestly, it's a great post. You wonderfully captured just how crazy, frustrating, and somewhat begrudingly humorous this thing called routine daily life can be.

BMW comment hit home and really made me LOL! Well LOL followed by a bit of a grimace. Ah memories.... 'nuff said about those memories.

All the best to Mouchi.

I really really appreciate the kind words(hope you’re having a good weekend btw.), yup little Mr. Mochi is doing good, hates his antibiotics, but I’ve been giving him little bits of chicken as a treat..
lol I’m happy to hear it was fun to read.. and I didn’t even have to embellish ?.
It’s Sunday so wifey is making breakfast for the hoomans of the household and kitten is taking his post breakfast nap..
yeah I got that bmw for her a little over a decade ago, she made a mistake and kept repeating that mistake until she was caught… that’s life.. full of twists and turns.. her new husband though is a pretty good guy (since I share custody of my son that’s honestly a huge relief for me.)

anyway going to draw with my son (he wants to learn how to draw anime?.)
then I’m going to see what’s wrong with the sequential side marker lights that won’t activate when the indicator/blinker/hazards/whatevers is on…. Anyone know if it may be because I have a xlt and it’s sequential LED SideMarkers now .. they light up but stay solid… (probably just cheap lights but thought I’d ask.)

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[Muscleford]

To day I installed mud flaps, side marker lights, and embarrassed my poor ranger for half the day.. that’s what I did to my ranger today.. long post apology.

Welp it took me all day to do it but I got my rock blokz mud flaps installed ? (yes there’s a reason why.).. and side maker lights…(which I’m mildly disappointed with because the flashing function isn’t working. Dognabbit… that’ll be a tomorrow thing now.)

and now the explanation..
So last night our kitten got scared from a loud noise, caused by me accidentally knocking over a folded up TotalGym (the Chuck Norris little home gym thing… which really rocks imo.)..
Little Mochi got scared out of his wits.. and attempted to escape under the couch when he was half the size if not smaller than he is now..
In doing so he (since I don’t have a better word for it) partially De-gloved his lower jaw… big sad, wife freaked out, we got him out from under the couch (since he was now stuck. I checked him out tended to his wounds as best I could. (Basically just flushed out his wound, tried to feed him a little food to see if his jaw was possibly broken… he ate and drank so thankfully his jaw was not broken..
The next morning woke up coddled the little guy, took my step daughter to school, got home and started prepping the flaps (thinking I got about a hour before I leave to take little mochi to get stitches.).. got as far as the front driver side flap mounted.? and my mom shows up..(she heard about the injury to our littlest furry family member and rushed out from Hollister to oakland.).. so I stopped put on a fresh pot of coffee.. made a little snack since she drove all the way out here.. caught up talking and my mom checking up on the baby of the family.. my dreaded alarm to leave goes off?. Off we go to the vet stopping to pick up my father in law along the way ? (he’s a old guy and having a rough time since the loss of his wife, so figured it would be nice to bring him along and get him out of his house for a bit.). Got to the vet signed in and found our wait time is 45 minutes.. awesome got my mom and father in law some breakfast from the doughnut shop across the street from the veterinary office.. I have a few minutes and I brought the flaps with me and the appointment won’t start for 25 mins..
Got the rear passenger side done in 7 mins yay plenty of time left too fin…… our name is called to come in with little Mochi..(good but also crap I thought I still had a little more time.. anyway love this animal doctor he a great dude. Checks the little one out and as suspected.. he’s gonna get some stitches… bill slides over…(legit first thought ? dang it there goes gettin the transmission pan and rear diff cover next week, I’m so selfish in my head sometimes.) so he’s off to his mending… the op will be about 2 hours.. sweet got a little time to.. continue the install… nope.. father in law needs a ride back to his place.. no biggie take him home close by my place anyhow. So mom and I head home to wait the remainder… back in business. Get the driver rear passenger 90% done… phone rings and my step daughter now needs to be picked up early from school…gawleeeee.. wrap it up. Hop in and take off down the road.. with three mud flaps two finished one scary loose but it’s still not far and all slow speed zones.. pick up the kid and back home still 50 mins before o gotta leave to pick up Mochi from the vet.. get home get through the door set everything down and go back outside and finish.. or so I thought… phone rings and good news the little procedure went much better than expected and the sutures went in nice tight easy and fast… everyone back in the truck.. ? tighten up the flap so i don’t lose it.. and head out.. we get the little one pay his medical ransom (seriously I am very happy he’s all fixed up and getting better.).. now I can finally finish what I was doing….. nope so much time has past now I must go meet up with my sons mother and pick him up at our meeting place (which is in Tracy.).. so on the road I go with a fresh outta surgery kitten, my mom, and cranky step daughter who got in trouble writhing the first two days of school..?… get to the spot and as soon as I get out of the truck a young guy (I’m pretty sure had good intentions.) runs over and tells me “hey bro I think you lost a mud flap.”… replied with a generic “oh yeah I know, but thanks for the concern.”
Ex shows up with my son, ex makes a mention that my truck looks kinda dumb with only three mud flaps on it.. snapped back with not as dumb as I looked buying that bmw for you…(yup still feel dumb about that one.)… now everyone is hungry.. so to Panera bread we go. Here’s where I make my move.. “mom get me pick two bacon Mac n cheese and the chicken bacon ranch half sandwich and ice tea… here’s $100 get yourself and the kids some food as well, I’m going to stay with mochi in the truck. Finally gonna finish.. got set up, and my dang phone rings again!!! It’s wifey, ask if she wants me to get her something Panera bread, she says idk maybe ? …figures.. i told her don’t get food o got you… run over to my mom to add to the order, got there in time ordered wifey food, ran back to the truck and finally for real for real finished.. and i am happy with how they look, i understand some of the gripes that people have with them, my opinion is they’re better looking than most of the competition at equal price points.. phone died before i could take pictures so had to charge it on the way home from Tracy… got home snapped the three pictures and getting up my back decided it doesn’t like me anymore today so now im laid out posting on 5g from the floor.

Installed the side markers right after I parked and kicked everyone out of the truck.. which upset me a little since they are not flagging when indicators are engaged. (Bad pair? Or? Didn’t plug the wire in the correct way idk.?) disappointing. But not enough to ruin the fancy new mud flaps… thanks for reading.
Rock Blokz is buy again.. suparee led side markers currently I cannot recommend..

I was going to post a picture of little mochi but I didn’t want to gross anyone out..so I just post a mid vet visit of him in his travel kennel.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

The side markers do not flash with the turn signals , they do no even light with the turn signals.

 

[OGMix376]

The side markers do not flash with the turn signals , they do no even light with the turn signals.

They only turn on when the locks are unlocked, the drls are on, parking light switch is on.. basically on if the truck is.. so they don’t flash with the indicators/blinkers… I did not know ?

that being the case, the suparee led lights on Amazon are pretty nice for $30, arrived within 24 hours of order, no wires need to be cut, plug them in like a bulb, twist it into the housing and pop it into the flare/trim…McDone deally.
.. they’ll look way more gooder once I get some lariat headlights (to me they’re way better looking than any of the also sweet looking aftermarket ones.)

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

They only turn on when the locks are unlocked, the drls are on, parking light switch is on.. basically on if the truck is.. so they don’t flash with the indicators/blinkers… I did not know ?

that being the case, the suparee led lights on Amazon are pretty nice for $30, arrived within 24 hours of order, no wires need to be cut, plug them in like a bulb, twist it into the housing and pop it into the flare/trim…McDone deally.
.. they’ll look way more gooder once I get some lariat headlights (to me they’re way better looking than any of the also sweet looking aftermarket ones.)

If I recall correctly, the side markers would flash on and off with the signal on my BMW.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Today, I installed new piping on my fender flares. The manufacturer says to wait 24 hrs for full adhesion, so instead of installing them on my truck right away, they’re hanging up in the basement of our boat shed.

No pets, children, parents, in-laws, wives, ex-wives, or veterinarians interfered with the completion of this project.

 

[OGMix376]

If I recall correctly, the side markers would flash on and off with the signal on my BMW.

I do miss my 2008 M5, but to maintain that v10 was a huge money expense.. I only bled enough cash to get her a certified used bmw 3 series (really low mileage tho and only a year old).. stupid bmw ?.?

 

[OGMix376]

Today, I installed new piping on my fender flares. The manufacturer says to wait 24 hrs for full adhesion, so instead of installing them on my truck right away, they’re hanging up in the basement of our boat shed.

No pets, children, parents, in-laws, wives, ex-wives, or veterinarians interfered with the completion of this project.

Lucky guy ?

 

[rang19ca]

@OGMix376 You have a great story telling gift in spite of the difficulties. I enjoyed it. Sorry you had a challenging time of it. Hope Kitty is doing good.

 

[OGMix376]

Thank you very much @rang19ca , happy to report the little guy is doing good… already getting himself into more kitten mischief.

 

[stinkechin]

The side markers do not flash with the turn signals , they do no even light with the turn signals.

OEM no they dont. after market they can. i just ordered these and pigtails so i can install without cutting wires.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D4QGWVRK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

[OGMix376]

OEM no they dont. after market they can. i just ordered these and pigtails so i can install without cutting wires.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D4QGWVRK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

When you say pigtails is it like a harness you can put in that spits off inbetween the flashing indicator lighting harness part? Or is it a connector that has conductor ends you have to get those tee splice adapter thingys also don’t like cutting wires and would like to avoid the thingys that clamp down on the wire to tee off…. If it comes to it when I get lariat headlights I’ll just pull out my tools and get fancy with redoing the wiring..
I can do some pretty good work… but if I don’t have to go full work mode these days I’d like to pay to play the easy way ? for somethings not everything.

 

[RangerPNW]

To day I installed mud flaps, side marker lights, and embarrassed my poor ranger for half the day.. that’s what I did to my ranger today.. long post apology.

Welp it took me all day to do it but I got my rock blokz mud flaps installed ? (yes there’s a reason why.).. and side maker lights…(which I’m mildly disappointed with because the flashing function isn’t working. Dognabbit… that’ll be a tomorrow thing now.)

and now the explanation..
So last night our kitten got scared from a loud noise, caused by me accidentally knocking over a folded up TotalGym (the Chuck Norris little home gym thing… which really rocks imo.)..
Little Mochi got scared out of his wits.. and attempted to escape under the couch when he was half the size if not smaller than he is now..
In doing so he (since I don’t have a better word for it) partially De-gloved his lower jaw… big sad, wife freaked out, we got him out from under the couch (since he was now stuck. I checked him out tended to his wounds as best I could. (Basically just flushed out his wound, tried to feed him a little food to see if his jaw was possibly broken… he ate and drank so thankfully his jaw was not broken..
The next morning woke up coddled the little guy, took my step daughter to school, got home and started prepping the flaps (thinking I got about a hour before I leave to take little mochi to get stitches.).. got as far as the front driver side flap mounted.? and my mom shows up..(she heard about the injury to our littlest furry family member and rushed out from Hollister to oakland.).. so I stopped put on a fresh pot of coffee.. made a little snack since she drove all the way out here.. caught up talking and my mom checking up on the baby of the family.. my dreaded alarm to leave goes off?. Off we go to the vet stopping to pick up my father in law along the way ? (he’s a old guy and having a rough time since the loss of his wife, so figured it would be nice to bring him along and get him out of his house for a bit.). Got to the vet signed in and found our wait time is 45 minutes.. awesome got my mom and father in law some breakfast from the doughnut shop across the street from the veterinary office.. I have a few minutes and I brought the flaps with me and the appointment won’t start for 25 mins..
Got the rear passenger side done in 7 mins yay plenty of time left too fin…… our name is called to come in with little Mochi..(good but also crap I thought I still had a little more time.. anyway love this animal doctor he a great dude. Checks the little one out and as suspected.. he’s gonna get some stitches… bill slides over…(legit first thought ? dang it there goes gettin the transmission pan and rear diff cover next week, I’m so selfish in my head sometimes.) so he’s off to his mending… the op will be about 2 hours.. sweet got a little time to.. continue the install… nope.. father in law needs a ride back to his place.. no biggie take him home close by my place anyhow. So mom and I head home to wait the remainder… back in business. Get the driver rear passenger 90% done… phone rings and my step daughter now needs to be picked up early from school…gawleeeee.. wrap it up. Hop in and take off down the road.. with three mud flaps two finished one scary loose but it’s still not far and all slow speed zones.. pick up the kid and back home still 50 mins before o gotta leave to pick up Mochi from the vet.. get home get through the door set everything down and go back outside and finish.. or so I thought… phone rings and good news the little procedure went much better than expected and the sutures went in nice tight easy and fast… everyone back in the truck.. ? tighten up the flap so i don’t lose it.. and head out.. we get the little one pay his medical ransom (seriously I am very happy he’s all fixed up and getting better.).. now I can finally finish what I was doing….. nope so much time has past now I must go meet up with my sons mother and pick him up at our meeting place (which is in Tracy.).. so on the road I go with a fresh outta surgery kitten, my mom, and cranky step daughter who got in trouble writhing the first two days of school..?… get to the spot and as soon as I get out of the truck a young guy (I’m pretty sure had good intentions.) runs over and tells me “hey bro I think you lost a mud flap.”… replied with a generic “oh yeah I know, but thanks for the concern.”
Ex shows up with my son, ex makes a mention that my truck looks kinda dumb with only three mud flaps on it.. snapped back with not as dumb as I looked buying that bmw for you…(yup still feel dumb about that one.)… now everyone is hungry.. so to Panera bread we go. Here’s where I make my move.. “mom get me pick two bacon Mac n cheese and the chicken bacon ranch half sandwich and ice tea… here’s $100 get yourself and the kids some food as well, I’m going to stay with mochi in the truck. Finally gonna finish.. got set up, and my dang phone rings again!!! It’s wifey, ask if she wants me to get her something Panera bread, she says idk maybe ? …figures.. i told her don’t get food o got you… run over to my mom to add to the order, got there in time ordered wifey food, ran back to the truck and finally for real for real finished.. and i am happy with how they look, i understand some of the gripes that people have with them, my opinion is they’re better looking than most of the competition at equal price points.. phone died before i could take pictures so had to charge it on the way home from Tracy… got home snapped the three pictures and getting up my back decided it doesn’t like me anymore today so now im laid out posting on 5g from the floor.

Installed the side markers right after I parked and kicked everyone out of the truck.. which upset me a little since they are not flagging when indicators are engaged. (Bad pair? Or? Didn’t plug the wire in the correct way idk.?) disappointing. But not enough to ruin the fancy new mud flaps… thanks for reading.
Rock Blokz is buy again.. suparee led side markers currently I cannot recommend..

I was going to post a picture of little mochi but I didn’t want to gross anyone out..so I just post a mid vet visit of him in his travel kennel.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hope Mochi is ok. One piece of advice on the Rokblokz flaps, throw some locktite on the hardware... i had some of the middle fasteners back out and make a run for it.

 

[stinkechin]

When you say pigtails is it like a harness you can put in that spits off inbetween the flashing indicator lighting harness part? Or is it a connector that has conductor ends you have to get those tee splice adapter thingys also don’t like cutting wires and would like to avoid the thingys that clamp down on the wire to tee off…. If it comes to it when I get lariat headlights I’ll just pull out my tools and get fancy with redoing the wiring..
I can do some pretty good work… but if I don’t have to go full work mode these days I’d like to pay to play the easy way ? for somethings not everything.

3157 male and female to get the turn signal to work with the maker light. looks like just 1 wire from the pics ill know more when i have them in a few days.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0849Z3XMW?smid=A1LGDXCZMXB2CW&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B49426W5?psc=1&smid=A1QGSFGO5JORXJ&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

 

[OGMix376]

Hope Mochi is ok. One piece of advice on the Rokblokz flaps, throw some locktite on the hardware... i had some of the middle fasteners back out and make a run for it.

Thanks for the heads up, I think I have blue 242. I’ll make the adjustment..

and he is doing good now, hates taking his antibiotics tho ?. We are going back for a follow up/check up on Friday.

 

[OGMix376]

3157 male and female to get the turn signal to work with the maker light. looks like just 1 wire from the pics ill know more when i have them in a few days.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0849Z3XMW?smid=A1LGDXCZMXB2CW&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B49426W5?psc=1&smid=A1QGSFGO5JORXJ&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

Can’t wait it’ll be sweet to have neat little side marker flashers.. and if it doesn’t cause the hyper flashing of the dash signal (the one that i believe is to let you know a blinker needs blinker fluid.) that will be even better.

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