czervika's 2016 Outdoorsman

[czervika]

Hi and what's up fellas.

First post so I thought I may as well start a thread about my truck. Picked it up about 10 days ago. 2016 Outdoorsman with 58k on the clock. Spent 24K on it which if you know anything about FL pricing it's a great deal.

Anyway I plan on posting updates to it as I work on it to make it mine.


The day it came home, March 29th 2021.

 

[czervika]

Tonight's updates to it.

Rebadged to black lettering. The only thing that bugs me is the Outdoorsman emblem.is still chrome and black. If I can't find one for sale I guess I'll have to start producing them myself.



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[czervika]

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[Joe w.]

Nice looking truck

 

[czervika]

Did the Bilstein 5100's @2.8 today. New power stop brakes arrive tomorrow. Hopefully I can get those knocked out before next weekend.

 

[czervika]

Well picture update this go around. This weekend the brakes were updated to the PowersStop K2164-36 kit. Drilled and slotted with ceramic pads. The I assume factory discs were warped pretty bad at least from my standpoint. And while I could have had them turned, I wanted a little more tooth when grabbing the rotors\. That and Amazon had the kit for $200 less than even summit.

Done.

 

[czervika]

No pics yet for this week but I installed 1 inch aluminum spacers in the rear. With the bilsteins at 2.8 the rear was a bit low. Don't care for the Carolina sag look.

Anyway that's it for this week.

 

[czervika]

After riding around in the 21 Pacifica Hybrid on my trip to the NAGA Miami championships last weekend I really came to appreciate the wireless Qi charging. So I decided to add it to the Ram.

I didn't have any Deutsch connectors on hand so I used the only thing I had weatherpac(ish) connector. I wanted connectors as I plan to remove the micro USB connector and replace it with a soldered connection to the board and I think it should be able to be removed without having to cut wires again. Also wanted a way to insert a buck converter inline incase the Qi charger can't handle the 12V system even though it's rated for it.

 

[czervika]

I like to simply use a pair of wire strippers to peal back the insulation rather than cutting the wires and splicing. To place in the new wires I simply used open barrel u-crimps. Please ignore the crappy crimps but I was rushed for time and I was limited on space.

The wires were stripped in a staggered manner on purpose. Just incase the insulating tape or shrink wrap used moves the two splices are unlikely to immediately make contact and short. I do this on every splice I do.


The coil is going to live in the bottom of the center console well. I'll eventually I'll get a JST connector and run the coil wires through the console and mount the electronics on the bottom. Even with the pcb and coil in the bottom it's relatively invisible.

 

[czervika]

So I do alot of night time driving, only about 70 miles a day but a good solid chunk is in the dark. My son spends a lot of time on the mats at Judo and BJJ practices and the return trip is almost 10pm, and in the winter it's dark going to and from. Anywho. During my trips I've noticed the state patrol here uses red interior lighting. I spoke with a trooper and basically he said it helps with night vision in as much as it doesn't make you night blind.

Being that I'm usually on the road at night and my son is always turning on the dome light to dig in the snack bag for drinks and munchies after a workout I decided to give red lighting a shot.

It's different having the red dome and map lights, but they're effective. I also don't find myself asking him to turn the light off as quickly now. Maybe it's a placebo effect, but I don't find the light as irritating while we're moving on the interstate. For now I'm going to keep 'em.