hey guys, im new to the site. just inherited this truck from my grandfather and decided to join this site to get ideas, info, and just hang out.

 

welcome to the site!

 

Howdy and welcome. Sharp truck, sorry to hear of your grandfather's loss.

Adrianspeeder

 

Welcome to the site. Nice pickup...i inherited my '87 F150 from my great grandpa as well...

 

Welcome. I love the looks of your truck. Any plans for it in the future?

 

Thanks guys for the comments. I've recently installed a 3 inch body lift. Next I'm gonna install a 6 inch Rough Country lift. I'm thinking about painting the truck black and running black 15x12 fake beadlocks and 35in mud grapplers. I also need to install a new exhaust. Its completely rusted out.

 

Hubba hubba. I think that constitutes new picture, eh.
I think 12" will be too wide for only 35 12.5's. unless you are planning on wider tires?
I think the blue with black wheels looks amazing as it is.
What motor n whatnot does it have?

 

i may just run 15x10s.i like a wide wheel/tire combo. may even just run a 33x13.50 with a 12 inch wheel. it has the 302 5.0. i havent added any bolt ons to it yet. im not really sure on what i should add first. any suggestions?

 

I personally love these trucks with really fat rubber on em, I like em stickin out super far. But with a 6 inch suspension and 3 inch body lift you will be clearing 37-39's easily.
I'm not sure on the 302 as I do not have one, but I do know that the 3G upgrade for the alternator is big thing to do. A good exhuast of course, any style just so it flows better than stock.
Your biggest upgrade is going to be a regear. Any idea what gears you have now?
This spring I'm lifting my truck 6 inches for 35's and regearing to at least 4.56's maybe 4.88's depending on how it runs with the stock 3.55's for a little.
I'm also going all out for lockers front and rear, but that's just me.
Also is your sig picture before or after the body lift? Cause you got some serious bumper gap issues. These bumpers actually have a lot of adjustment and can probably cover most of what's there if it is not already up the whole way, even if it is I'm sure you could make some bigger adjustment plates very simply.

 

The pic in the sig is after my body lift. I just finished it last week. I still have a lot of adjusting to do. I'm really not sure on what gears I have but I do plan on running 4.56s. I was also gonna run a trutrac since mine is only 2wd.

 

If you have any open diff the powertrax lock right literally pops right in and works like magic. I unfortunately have a stock limited slip so I'm completely junking the stock third member for a Detroit locker and 4.56 gears.
I found some sweet deals on gears on ebay, but I'm not sure about the brand.
4Wheelparts.com also has g2 gears for around 200 for 4.56's. I have heard that g2 makes really good stuff for the jeeps so i wouldn't hesitate to try their gears.

 

I'll keep that in mind. I usually buy my gears from randys ring and pinion. I've bought all of my gears for my cherokees from there. I definitely want to install some headers and then maybe just straight pipe it. I really need to paint it before anything.

 

Long tube headers I hope. You gunna do just straights or cats and no muffler or no cats and no muffler.
My one cousin has a silverado with straights and just cats and it's loud as can be and pops like mad. His brother has a somehow magical v6 ranger with no cats and a magnaflow muffler that is also loud and pops pretty good on the decel.
I have a single rednecked up single straight with no cat or muffler and I like it, but I may be going for a chambered muffler soon to see what it sounds like.
I really want to paint my truck as you can see it's really bad, no rust just bad paint. But I'd rather lift it and get my new motor built first.

 

I'm gonna run cats and no muffler. I can't make up my mind on what I wanna do first either paint or lift.I can't afford new tires right now but I can afford the paint. Probably gonna buy the lift in a month or so and tires a month after that. Gonna install it all at the same time

 

What sort of paintjob are you looking at? A really good paint job will cost a good amount, you can do it yourself pretty cheap though. If you do it yourself I would do it before the lift, who wants to be painting a truck that's god knows how tall... not me.