Hello, warning, this thread is going to me picture heavy.
In February my oldest daughter deployed on her second combat tour and has turned 21 and made Sergeant since. In March we brought her Ford Focus up from FT Bragg and traded it in on a 2013 F150 SXT 5.0 4x4. It here as it sat stock.


And with her re-up money and combat pay, she did what you would expect a single 21 year old to do..... Blow $$$$$.....

 

And here we go.... First HUGE boxes to show up said "ROUSH" on them. Cat back exhaust and cold air intake....



I have to admit,,, sounds just awesome.

 

Next came STICKERS, yeah I know, who would do that to a brand spanking new truck, sight unseen? Well, we did it anyway.

Add to that the Hell Bent Steel 2" level (dealer installed) and black tool box and she had this:

 

And..... the Mother of all Bumpers, Iron Cross with full grill.... OK, this looks killer but DAMN IT WAS HEAVY.

Almost forgot the High Speed Tactical Seat Covers from Smittybuilt.

RCI Metal Works Full Front Skid Plate.

 

I'm probably forgetting a few things but after all that, A set of Bushwacker fender fairs, a Warn VR10000 and a new set of Nitto Terra Graplers its sitting like this today..... Still 4 months till she sees it.....

 

Where did you get those seat covers and how much? I NEED those!

 

Looks good, now it just needs some lift for that bumper to flow better.

 

Very sharp... Great job... I'm sure she will enjoy the ride...

 

If I remember correctly she found them on Amazon and shipped them to me. Made by smittybuilt and were about 100 each with a tone of Molle pouches.

 

Nice. I like it.

That's a pretty fast rank pick up isn't it? Or is that normal in the Army?

 

It's faster than I did. But when she was in basic I made some calls and got her into Airborne school after her AIT, I was in Army Special Operations Command and pulled a couple "favors". Since them her over max PT score, weapons quals, her actions her first tour and 4 sets of foreign jump wings had her pretty maxed out on promotion points.

 

Excellent start....she is going to love it!

 

dang! all that truck needs now is bigger tires!!

 

That's awesome! Thanks for your service and be sure to pass on the gratitude to her!

 

Many thanks to you and your daughter for ya'lls service to our Country.

The truck looks awesome! That is one hell of a bumper, I've always liked those. It's a big chunck of steel sitting up there.

Does she still have stock shocks on the truck? I saw she had the 2" HBS kit installed. I've had heavy ranchhand replacement bumpers on two of my trucks before. Both times I upgraded my stock shocks with Bilstein's 5100. They are better built IMHO and would hold up better to the added weight of the heavier bumper. The 5100's can be used with the HBS you can just keep the 5100's at stock height. If nothing else upgrade stock shocks to some heavier duty ones.

just my .02