Pro Tips
Pro Tips: Weekly Mailbag
- March 12, 2012
Welcome to the first edition of the Custom Rigs Pro Tips Mailbag, in which we field questions from readers and track down professionals to answer them for you. We also pull a few submissions to use in the print edition ofonline viagra Custom Rigs. So if you've got a tech question bugging you, email it to us or submit it in the CR Forum, and we'll get it answered. If yours is used in the magazine, we'll sign you up ...
Pro Tip: Polishing Diamond Plate
- March 30, 2011
POLISHING DIAMOND PLATE Making a tough job easy using carpet scraps The next time you are cutting your truck's carpet save the scraps. Chuck Simmons of Denver-based Outlaw Customs says such carpet scraps make the world's best polishing pad for diamond plate. Carpet, especially the shorter nap shag, doesn't leave threads behind or come apart as it is pushed across the rough diamond plate. It's mildly abrasive texture quickly removes tarnish and when used with a generic viagra onlinegood chrome polish, allows you ...
Custom Tip: Slick Rear Camera Mount
- August 27, 2010
Slick Mount Idea For Video Cameras Walking among the dozens of custom big rigs at the 2010 Custom Rigs Pride & Polish event inside the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas reveals a lot of slick custom ideas. Here's one of interest to those who like having digital cameras used for recording what's happening around the truck. Michael Holland's 2007 Peterbilt 379 sports 4-inch lights on the top of the mirrors. But the lights aren't lights at all --they are cameras housed in chrome ...
High-Beam Upgrade
- April 05, 2010
Maximizing nighttime visibility with retro-style clear headlights fitted with high-output bulbs is a win-win situation; the brighter beams enhance safety, allowing you more time to react to what lie ahead, while the retro-style crystal headlights enhance the overall look of your truck. But don't forget to put in the right relay or all you'll see is blackness...
CLEANING HEADLIGHTS
- November 11, 2009
headlights age over time and that process is sped up by an accumulation of road grime and salt, compounds which deteriorate the plastic and turn it yellow or foggy. Clouded or discolored headlights are a big safety issue--especially in the winter. Here's a pro tip on how to quickly get your custom rig's headlights back into like-new condition ...
PRO TIP: CUSTOM DPF EXHAUST
- November 11, 2009
PRO TIP Installing 8" Stacks On Custom Rigs Equipped With DPF Exhausts "One of the problems we have run into on the DPF trucks being customized here at Pro-Fab is not being able to put big stacks and big Pickett-style elbows on them," says shop owner and custom fabricator Randy Kaylor. So the Manheim, PA, fabrication and installation experts figured out a slick work-around that keeps the factory DPF system intact while providing the monster stack custom-look: They designed a faux exhaust to ...
Pro Tips: Amplifier Install
- October 05, 2009
Installing an amplifier the way the pros do it! By Grizz Archer Look inside the driver's-side storage compartment, peek underneath the bunk, or poke your head around the front wall of a sleeper and what you are going to see on many of today's custom rigs is the heart of the truck's sound system. It's not the least bit unusual to find a pair of high-end amps, colorful wiring, and maybe even a couple "caps" neatly displayed. Truckers love their stereos and they ...
Pro Tip: Chasing down audio noise
- July 09, 2009
Killing off the sounds you don't want to hear coming from your custom rig's stereo system By Grizz Archer Hums, whines, buzzes, crackles, pops and other unexpected noises blasting out your rig's speakers not only ruins tunes, they are really frustrating when you can't figure out how they happen in the first place. Anyone who has a good audio system wants clean, vibrant sound. Unexplained background noises ruin the day. So, let's go noise hunting and kill off the little culprits responsible for ...
Fine-Tuning Stereos
- July 07, 2009
GETTING A GRIP ON GAIN The secret to adjusting any sound system's performance is in the fine-tuning By Grizz Archer You've just dropped a couple Gs on a new sound system for your custom rig and want to show off. But it's not quite loud enough. Easy fix. Crank up the gain. Wrong. Contrary to popular belief, the gain (input sensitivity) adjuster on the amp is not a volume control, even though you may think it works like one. Don't feel alone: Very few ...
PRO TIPS
- April 27, 2009
Custom Rigs' Pro Tips / April '09 SLAMMIN' FRONT I have a 2004 Classic XL with a 550 cat and want to lower the front end to make it look more custom and aggressive. I would like to know how I can do it the right way or if there is a kit that I can buy? Also how low can I go with it, my truck is a working truck with a 265-inch wheel base. Will doing this cause any damage ...
Professional Truck Customization Tips
You’d be surprised at how simple some of the tricks are used by professional truck custom shops. We’ve interviewed some of them to get some insight that the pros use and we’re hoping that all of this will help you keep your truck shining, or even upgraded easier and cheaper than you thought. If you’re looking for even more tips from the pros, you might want to consider a subscription to Custom Rigs Magazine where every month we cover some of the coolest projects from shops all over America. A 1 year subscription is only $19.95 for 4 full issues and a 2 year subscription gets you 8 full issues for only $29.95 AND you get a FREE CustomRigs t-shirt!