Where is everyone #5

See, if you’re truck would have been all Blue Beacon clean and not calciumed up, it would seem a lot worse.

 

That was 25 miles past Blue Beacon polished and shined prior to the calcium bath.

 

That’s the reason I’m staying out for 2 weeks (12 days) too.

Good to know I’m doing it for all the right reasons!

I have some silly notion in my head of a gross dollar goal? Not sure it’s actually adding any to the bottom line though?

 

The weather made it feel like I was IN a CFL stadium, LOL.

Hope ya get the truck going without too many problems.

 

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On twitter this am.

 

Why get a breakfast sandwich when you can get tacos?

 

4 digit MC. Wow I thought ours was old with 6 digits

 

That looks look like heaven in a to-go container!!!

I had gas station potato salad for dinner last night. I’m way off my game the last couple of weeks.

 

However it comes apart, it will certainly be dead simple and almost obvious. Once you figure it out LOL. If it were mine, I'd probably use a small hammer to tap a knife blade in that seam and see if it spreads a little and pops out. On the upside, it's already damaged so you're already facing buying two matching new ones anyway. That you can change the lamp in.

And +1000 on heated headlamp bezels. I replaced the 6x4 TruckLite low beams on my truck with the JW Speaker heated ones. Then promptly tried them out. I should have taken a picture when I stopped. They were an oasis of clear bright light and the rest of the front end was 1/2" deep in ice.

I'm not a fan of the excessively complex array of projectors, it's kinda ricey looking IMO and I don't care for that look. If I had a do over I'd probably order the black ones instead of chrome. On the other hand, I can't see them from behind the wheel and they do work great. The beam pattern is softer than the TruckLites, while covering just as good and doing a great job of lighting up all the reflective paint, foglines, and signs within a 1/2 mile. Seemed like they were focused a bit higher than the TruckLites (which were a match for the regular halogen sealed beams), confirmed by several high beam "thank yous" on my last trip. Some of that could have been a little glare from the calcium splattered on the bezels, but I turned the top adjuster screws out a couple turns anyway and will see how that works out next time it gets dark on me.

Edit to add: These new ones fit the retaining frames better. The TruckLite lamps I took out were actually recessed a little, creating a gap that would help them collect more ice and make it even more difficult to clear. These new ones fit tight and the bezel actually sticks out about 1/2" in a curved shape that seems to help shed the crap off as it melts.