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09-01-2024, 11:42 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
spent like half a day cleaning my old stepper rims. literally the first time they been cleaned in about 10 or so yrs...
kid bought some chrome valve stems, luggies and center caps for contrast... |
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09-05-2024, 11:19 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
we finally got all 4 rims done
the blocks for the rear came the other day didn't have a big enough (frikkin) metric impact socket for the u-bolts, so i tried a regular socket on my 1200 ft lb milwaukee impact....ripped it right in half, so before we wrecked anymore sockets, we said the hay with it and zip wheeled 'em off in 3 mins in and sitting a bit taller. |
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09-05-2024, 11:27 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
the keys came in yesterday, so we spent half a day whacking on stuck torsion bars. also left my cam in wife's 'yoda, who was at work, so had to wait till she got home for pics.
now it's looking like a truck and not some girlie play toy... approx 2" clearance at the front of the fender cranked hard over, and about 1 1/2" clearance at the back of the fender cranked over. for a piece of mind i also zipped the inside corners of the fender flares off |
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09-05-2024, 11:50 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
kid is a little upset no off roading till the rest of the shocks get here, but no sooner had we mounted the tires and 2 young girls, 16-19, my son's age, walked by and commented they liked the rims...i was like there, quit complaining you got a chick magnet truck now...
 really liking how our driveway is shaping up now, i drive a lifted truck, my wife drives a lifted truck, and now my son is tooling around in a lifted truck....the only thing missing and needed is a lifted blazer or 2 dr tahoe. i have come across 2 very interesting tahoe/yukon's for sale, gmt 400 flavor. one is stock with some goofy rims and has 55 000 miles and is a beauty queen, which would pain me to drag thru the bush, and the other one is a LS swap, nvg 4500, hi pinion dana 44 sas with a 14 b rear axle. i'm really liking the sas tahoe just for the fact it's a 5 spd. only prob is finding time to go check it out before it sells- it's 3 1/2 hrs from me |
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09-09-2024, 02:06 AM
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Re: My son's first truck
me and my son did a cut-polish and clean on his truck today
he also took off the wiper arms and re-painted them new shocks goin' on tomorrow |
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09-11-2024, 12:27 AM
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Re: My son's first truck
well we put the new shocks in, had to cut the fr shock bolts with a grinder. took it for a drive and she rides real nice now, them old shocks (waaaay old) were toilet, they were making a grinding noise up and down.
so while we were taking the truck out to test the ride of the shocks, we stopped for fuel. as my son is filling the truck, i noticed fuel puking out from under the truck...turns out the filler tube is rotted yup, that's a hole in the tube... lookin' better now, no more leaky's |
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