Featured Pro Tips

Pro Tips: Weekly Mailbag

- March 30, 2012

Welcome to the Custom Rigs Pro Tips Mailbag, in which we field questions from readers and track down professionals to answer them for you. We’ll use a few submissions in each print issue of Custom Rigs, too, and if your question is used in the magazine, you’ll receive a free year’s subscription to CR. If you’ve got a tech question or how-to question, email it to us or submit it in the CR ...

Pro Tips: Weekly Mailbag

- March 19, 2012

Welcome to the Custom Rigs Pro Tips Mailbag, in which we field questions from readers and track down professionals to answer them for you. We'll use a few submissions in each print issue of Custom Rigs, too, and if your question is used in the magazine, you'll receive a free year's subscription to CR. If you’ve got a tech question or how-to question, email it to us or submit it in the CR Forum, and we’ll ...

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 of 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 for ...

Pro Tip: Polishing Diamond Plate

- March 30, 2011

Diamond plate hard to polish? Chuck Simmons of Denver-based Outlaw Customs, says such carpet scraps makes the world's best polishing pad for diamond plate...

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...

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 ...