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When I lived back in Minnesota I always used to love pulling my winter beater into the garage all covered with salt and snow and parking it next to my nice clean "baby"......
Not all from today, but recent additions: Paint matched new bumper, powdercoated the chrome rear one, two 14" bars mounted behind the grill, pods with paint matched rings mounted in the fog holes. Not all pictured though haha. Plus a start to now picture, but the top truck isn't mine, just one similar to how mine looked when I got it.
Yesterday evening took "Wife Unit" to a place about 60 miles north for a supper meet with my GWRRA group, supperb food, good company, great time .... but it snowed and we came home on iced over snowed over drifted roadway and this afternoon it was 19 degrees and I took my nasty '07 FX4 that was now more white than red to town to the car wash and hosed through about $8.00 in quarters ..... and when I got back in the truck, my hands were near numb. Was 14 degrees when I got home, truck had ice on it ..... but looked so much better.
It was brutal.
First "warmer than frozen" day I'll crank up my PW and give her a good bath.
Painted chrome step boards a satin black, look a lot better than chrome IMHO just letting them cure now. Finally got a second emblem and in the process of painting to match that now. The lower valence looks faded and I've put restorer on it before but it still looks pretty old. Thinking about painting it, anyone taken off their lower and how to do it?
Painted chrome step boards a satin black, look a lot better than chrome IMHO just letting them cure now. Finally got a second emblem and in the process of painting to match that now. The lower valence looks faded and I've put restorer on it before but it still looks pretty old. Thinking about painting it, anyone taken off their lower and how to do it?
Gotta take the bumper off of the truck to get access to all of the bolts that hold the valance on, but it's super easy and fast to remove once the bumper is off the truck.
started cupping my tires, and the truck has been riding horribly and banging the upper BJ on the coil so i bought rancho quicklifts and the rs9000 rear shocks and replaced em all and its like a whole new truck. rides great, and the balljoint does not hit the coil at full droop. my autospring 2 inch gave me 2.5 inches somehow and im hoping this will end up giving me two inches. it sits a little lower in the front (there is some stuff in the bed in this pic, but may have to look into a 2.5"raptor block)
the upper control arms i put on about 40k ago are already bad, and i bought lowers for good measure, so the next thing is to put new moog greasable lowers and uppers in it, then it will need front brakes then tires.
also put lincoln mark lt handles on it a while back
Last edited by fivespeedsteed; Feb 27, 2015 at 08:43 PM.
I bought it! Took a train down, met the guy, handed him cash, and drove home in my very nice newly used FX4! Needs some lovin' and I got lots of it to give!
Today I removed the tow mirrors I had on for only 4 months and went with a pair of manual folding upgrade 09+ looking mirrors. The tow mirrors were great and I loved how they got rid of blind spots. I thought they just looked too big for my truck. Also, they made the teuck 3 feet wider, which just got annoying. I somehow ended up with 2 pairs of these new mirrors. Have a brand new pair in the 2004-2008 parts classifieds.
I finally got the correct fender and molding. I removed the wheel well. I pulled the dented fender off taking care of the antenna. I replaced the fender with the same color fender from a lariat, took her to the car wash and shined her up!
