Light Up The Night
Daystar Products now offers these 7.6-inch off-road lights to brighten your nighttime wheeling adventures. The lights are designed with high-impact housings and tough, crystal-clear glass. Each light comes with a 55-watt halogen H1 bulb and a protective light cover, and 100- and 130-watt bulbs are also available. Daystar offers an easy-to-install wiring kit that comes complete with dual rocker switches and two relays. A wiring kit with dual micro switches is also available.
Daystar Products International Inc.
800.595.7659
www.daystarweb.com
Easy Dependable Mounting
The Quick Fist mounting clamps are perfect for off-road vehicles because they make the mounting of tools, shovels, hoses, axes, rifles, fishing gear, and recovery equipment easy. The clamps will hold any object with a diameter of 1 to 21/2 inches safely and securely. We have also mounted them to the tops of fenderwells and to the side of inner body panels.
End Of The Road INC.
615. 828.2600
www.endroad.com
Ready Welder II
This compact, battery-powered MIG welder operates on two or three 12-volt DC batteries in series, producing 200 to 350 amps of power for deep penetration of metals. For thin metal, a 12- and a 6-volt battery connected in series to produce 18 DC volts and lower amps work without burning through your project. Use it as a spool gun or as a stand-alone welder. The Ready Welder II can be used with or without a gas tank, as with flux-core electrode wire.
Ready Welder CORP.
714.970.2076
www.readywelder.com
Sparking Up
You guessed it: another spark plug! The E3 spark plug is the result of many years of research to supposedly create a plug with more power. We have tried them and like them. It's difficult to tell if there has been an actual power increase in the vehicle without dyno testing, but it definitely feels like there's more pep in its performance.
E3 Spark Plugs
www.e3sparkplugs.com
Colorado Trails
This new, full-color edition of Colorado Trails includes meticulous details for 867 miles of the region's best scenic backroads and four-wheel-drive trails in southwest Colorado. The featured trails are around the towns of Silverton, Ouray, Durango, Telluride, Lake City, and Creede. Four-wheel adventurers will see ghost towns such as Animas Forks, numerous old mines and mill workings, old railroads, and stage lines along the 48 trail routes. The book also includes a historical retrospective of each featured area. The fully illustrated Colorado Trails has hundreds of color photos of the spectacular Rocky Mountains and countryside, and it includes easy-to-read maps and historical black-and-white images of yesteryear. The book also includes turn-by-turn map instructions with corresponding GPS coordinates. We highly recommend this book for traveling and exploring southwest Colorado.
Adler Publishing
800.660.5107
www.4wd.com
www.adlerpublishing.com
Keeping It Cool
The ARB Freezer Fridge has been around for a while and it is very cool-literally. Dealing with regular coolers and ice can be a drag. Your food can get jostled around in wet, icy soup for a couple of days and become a saturated inedible mess. The smaller ARB coolers will hold more food than a regular larger ice cooler because they're not packed with ice! Depending on the cooler's size, they have from a 0.7 to 4.7 amp draw per hour. The fridges have a built-in 12-, 24-, 120-, and 240-volt facility, making them ideal for use as a second fridge in emergencies. It also comes with a vehicle power adapter and a household plug-in adapter.
ARB USA
425.264.1391
www.arbusa.com
Rollover Avoidance
Innovate Motorsports has just released its new DAD-1 Digital Inclinometer, which reads the vehicles pitch and roll in an X (pitch) and Y (roll) axis. Not only is this the perfect safety device for you and your passengers in locals like Moab, the digital device is extremely easy to install. The Rad-1 provides an audio alert when your vehicle is approaching a maximum angle you have programmed into the device's memory.
Innovate! Technology INC.
949.502.8400
www.innovatemotorsports.com
Shifty Characters
Gennie offers a full line of hot rod (or custom rock buggy) parts like shift levers, dip sticks, e-brake handles, and throttle and brake pedals along with the accessories like cables to make them work. But we stopped at the Web site when we came across the cool shift knobs. We felt you might dig this crazy-looking shifter knob known as Clitus (lower right) that we attached to the top of our NV4500. Clitus is the skull of a rough-looking redneck and he's grinning like a maniac, similar to what we do when we're slamming gears over rocky roads or muddy holes.
Gennie Shifter
877.746.6643
www.gennieshifter.com