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Today, 12:21 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
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Re: My son's first truck
on the way home after buying it (aprox 70 miles) i was completely underwhelmed by the V6. never owned a V6 truck in my life, always 8's and i noticed i had to run it up way more when shifting than the 5.7 in the stepper.
but i had bought it and figured after driving it for awhile i would get used to it.... the offending V6.. the first thing i did when i got it home was pull off the cow catcher and toolbox. i need to mount a canopy for my dawgs. sold the grille guard and toolbox for $500 so my investment was now down to 6 K. when the guard came off it was pretty obvious my fr bumper had some plating issues... also had a headliner prob to deal with as well |
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Today, 12:32 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
bumper was a little rougher looking once the chrome came off....
at this time my stepper was still driving, so i figured i would just do a temp fix on the bumper. the plan was to take the mint bumper off the stepper when it died and put it on the new truck. after tons of welding and grinding, it looks acceptable enough for now first winter with us and still hadn't put it on the road yet |
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Today, 12:50 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
new struts on the box and some new paint got me $500 for this goofy-ness
one thing i hated about this truck is the '90's silly-@ss decals on it. a few hrs with a hot air welder from work and there gone. also took off the few pieces of rub strip that were left. where the rest of it went went i have no clue... |
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Today, 01:10 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
the grille was also pretty faded out, so with Tim's suggestion (Special K) i sprayed it with some metallic charcoal i think it was called
also yanked off the rear bumper to knock out a dent, fix the license plate lights and a new coat of paint |
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Today, 01:18 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
rear bumper looking a little better now
cause of my dawgs, i needed a canopy. got this one for free from a buddy, but needed lots of work and was actually off a dodge sb, so the fit was not spectacular, but it would work.....and the price was right... also scored these factory flares off a silver sub for $150. sprayed them with bedliner give the truck a nice look i think |
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Today, 01:27 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
bumper looks ok now i think
cause the canopy was free, that left money to make it black. no matter what color my trucks are, my canopy's are always black...that white is just to loud anyways couldn't belive the damage to the roof of the canopy...turned out buddy had dragged it down his driveway upside down... |
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Today, 01:48 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
also paint the insides of my canopy's grey. new paint on the window frames, new struts, new weatherstripping, some clamps and was able to get replacement keys instead of whole new locks |
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