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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 09:54 PM
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Nice pics...light bar looks good
 
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 10:26 PM
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nice pics.

as for more mods....
paint ur under body and frame black. i used rustoleum.
paint ur exhaust black with high temp paint (did mine also)
paint lower bumper valence white or black.
maybe u could go to a junkyard and see if you could find a wrecked truck that had painted white bumpers and see if they would swap for yours with some $$$ (plan on doing that myself soon.)
paint ur tailgate handle white. think joh408 did his
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by BigTruckGuy
nice pics.

as for more mods....
paint ur under body and frame black. i used rustoleum.
paint ur exhaust black with high temp paint (did mine also)
paint lower bumper valence white or black.
maybe u could go to a junkyard and see if you could find a wrecked truck that had painted white bumpers and see if they would swap for yours with some $$$ (plan on doing that myself soon.)
paint ur tailgate handle white. think joh408 did his

Frame and under body might be a good idea. I really want everything white or black.

As for exhaust I really am considering getting stainless steel for new setup. I really love the look.

I was planning on painting the lower vailance. Not sure if I'd like the bumper white or just chrome. I just got Photoshop so will be playing with it a lot

didn't think of the tail gate handle. Might paint that more of a shiny black. Good ideas. Thank you for them.

This weekend going to have friend drive the truck so I can see how the light bar looks. I'm eager to see
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by legorreta

As for exhaust I really am considering getting stainless steel for new setup. I really love the look.
Not to de-ter you from going with a stainless steel exhaust, BUT I have noticed that after a year or two's time that the tips as well as whatever else is stainless steal begin to turn yellow. There's nothing that can be done about it.. mainly from the metal getting hot and cold too quickly. I had stainless steel tips (magnaflows actually) and they always looked good as long as I polished them up ALL the time. IMO running a black tip from RBP would be awesome. Either duals or a large S/O would be awesome.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by legorreta
Frame and under body might be a good idea. I really want everything white or black.

As for exhaust I really am considering getting stainless steel for new setup. I really love the look.

I was planning on painting the lower vailance. Not sure if I'd like the bumper white or just chrome. I just got Photoshop so will be playing with it a lot

didn't think of the tail gate handle. Might paint that more of a shiny black. Good ideas. Thank you for them.

This weekend going to have friend drive the truck so I can see how the light bar looks. I'm eager to see
if you paint the frame make sure u wire brush and get all the rust off first. or at least most of it otherwise ur not doin much good. then some rustoleum

i just have stock with bullet muffler and normal shop pi[e and i painted the pipes black with high temp paint. i need to get tips.

i think yours would look sick if you got all white bumpers and painted ur valence white.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 10:44 AM
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might just have to check into the RBP tips, i once saw them on a truck (in a pic) and they looked sexy as hell..

Thanks for the tip!

and yea, I think i would have it all painted before i do anything with it, I guess iw ill have to look at it to see how it looks, I absolutely hate that dent in it, maybe if i pop it out one day (if i can even do so) itll chip and i will have to do something about it... ie buy a new one or something
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 01:28 PM
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what do you have a dent in??
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 08:44 PM
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the chrome bumper
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 11:41 PM
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wont be able to pop that out by yourself. the metal is to hard and it wont come out evenly if you try.
 
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 07:03 PM
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lame

today had some more fun, with weather its about time to work on the truck, but im being lazy


Already doing work


she likes the mud









 
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 07:36 PM
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3rd pic... water on the exhaust?? lot of smoke there
 
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:15 PM
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3rd pic... water on the exhaust?? lot of smoke there
I don't remember when that pic was taken. It wasn't too wet outside and some of the area i would just slam on it in 2wd, might have been the tires roasting a little bit from some of the dryer area or water hitting something that made it steam.
 
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:21 PM
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actually now that i think about it, it was most likely either the tires roasting a little bit or at one point my radiator hose got knocked off (Didn't realize it came loose when was taking off the HID balast). The anti freeze steamed a little bit but dont think that was it. We caught that real quick so if it was, it was perfect timing
 
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 10:12 PM
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looks like fun still waiting on it to rain here all the mud dried up lol
 
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 10:19 PM
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Oh no! You put mud on it... Have fun cleaning lol, I'm done with that non sense in mine.
 
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