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Took my 82 f-150 4x4 for my first trip over 60 miles to gain trust in the truck after all my repairs like shocks/altinator/volt regulator/fused rail wires/plugs/cap rotor and thermostat.
Truck did fine no issues. Now i have faith to drive it to St Marys glacier a little over 10,000 feet elevation over 120 miles from my home. It's my $1000.00 wonder. I purchased the truck for $1000.00 cash drive train is strong including the 4x4. Fluid change out for the front and rear diff"s as well as the transfer case oil next.
Installed, in my garage, my new cat back Corsa DB exhaust, siso, side exit and man this truck used to purr, now all I can say is it growls. Happy that it only growls when I want it too though and no drone, as they guaranteed. Glad I did my research before buying and installing.
Cool! Could you post some more pics of the install?
sure, I just wired them to the cigarette lighter wires. I ran the positive over to a switch then to the LED's. just wired the negative to negative. I spliced the wires in using splice connecters (tube thingies). I tried to hide the wires the best I could, in the end there was about 6" of exposed wires, I taped them together with electrical tape to make it look better and less noticeable.
Sorry for the bad pictures, I always forget to take pictures of the stuff that matters when I'm doing stuff. Hope this helps.
^the blue connector is the negative and has the two negatives from the LED's. the red connector is the positive and has the white wire that goes to the switch.
sure, I just wired them to the cigarette lighter wires. I ran the positive over to a switch then to the LED's. just wired the negative to negative. I spliced the wires in using splice connecters (tube thingies). I tried to hide the wires the best I could, in the end there was about 6" of exposed wires, I taped them together with electrical tape to make it look better and less noticeable.
Sorry for the bad pictures, I always forget to take pictures of the stuff that matters when I'm doing stuff. Hope this helps.
My wife and I just bought our home and the previous owner had most of the back yard covered in wood chips. They were terrible and got tracked everywhere and hurt the kids' feet. You couldn't get to the yard without walking through them. So we thought we'd take them up and put down grass seed.
It turned out to be more of a job than we anticipated. The chips were over fabric that hid the eight inches or so of sand underneath, haha. So I've spent the evenings for the last couple of weeks shoveling chips and sand and replacing it with top soil.
I've had our F150 for about two months now, and this was our first "big" load of anything. You can see how the truck is weighed down by the probably 3k pounds of sand and gravel I scooped out of the back yard.
What you can't see is that those chips extend another 30 feet to the left, all the way under and around our deck.
You can see the pile starting to grow in the background.
Things mostly cleaned up and grass seed down.
Glad we were finished at this point. Truck wouldn't have held much more
The bed cover is pretty useful for keeping the sand from blowing out.
This picture makes me assume the shocks and struts are original.
Congratulations on your home. Looks like you worked your tail off fixing up the backyard, but I can already tell it's going to look great.
Congratulations on your home. Looks like you worked your tail off fixing up the backyard, but I can already tell it's going to look great.
Thanks!
Unloaded all the sand at the landfill yesterday. Weighed in at 9,000 lbs even loaded up. What surprised me more was weighing 6,240 on the way out! It's easy to forget how much weight we're carrying around all the time.
07-16-2014, 02:08 PM
