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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by the_breeze
Lmao I'm glad to see so much enthusiasm xD
And sorry I woke up at like 1:45 and had to Bang gears to get to my grandmas house in time for thanksgiving dinner at 2:30 so sorry about that.

And like I said these are step one pictures. I don't have a whole lot of free time. Mostly 15-45 minutes between jobs and such so they might be "small steps" but it's progress lol

And thanks for the enthusiasm I'm honestly shocked that anyone even cares lol :']
So what exactly are you doing to your grill? Im trying to follow but i can lol
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 07:46 PM
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Lol I'm cutting all of the crossbars out and putting trailer meshing in. Very similar to what Fordtrucknut did minus the logo lol. It's hard to picture the final product now I know. I still have to cut the rest of the crossbars out and file and sand the edges before I can put the mesh in.
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by f150cam
we dont care, its just refreshing to see someone else spend money on there f150 lol joke, yea it gives us ideas on what we can do.
Lol I'm really not spending any money. I picked up the grille at a scrapyard for $15 and the meshing is about $10 it's just the process of handmaking it that's time consuming
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 07:50 PM
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i dont know why i was picturing your truck sitting in the driveway with out the grille lol. i need to head to the junkyard and pick up some stuff for my truck....
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 08:05 PM
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Step 2 pics lol cut out the rest of the center piece. Now I have to file and sand the rough edges. Mind you there are a LOT of rough edges v.v lol
And this is irrelevant but look at my new little buddy :]
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by f150cam
i dont know why i was picturing your truck sitting in the driveway with out the grille lol. i need to head to the junkyard and pick up some stuff for my truck....
Haha I bought another one I have all chrome on my truck now. I'm blacking out a lot of it
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by the_breeze
Haha I bought another one I have all chrome on my truck now. I'm blacking out a lot of it
lol i need to get new chrome grille and headlight bezels since the chrome is starting to crack. on another note, my pup can kick your pups
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 08:48 PM
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There's too much chrome on my truck lol I'm gonna paint the grille and bezels black along with the stainless panel on the back. And come on now. She's only 8 weeks :']
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by the_breeze
There's too much chrome on my truck lol I'm gonna paint the grille and bezels black along with the stainless panel on the back. And come on now. She's only 8 weeks :']
in the picture mine is 6 weeks lol. hes like....3 months or so now. i do like the blacked out look, i just prefer chrome on this truck right now since it already had all the xlt chrome stuff on it.
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by f150cam
in the picture mine is 6 weeks lol. hes like....3 months or so now. i do like the blacked out look, i just prefer chrome on this truck right now since it already had all the xlt chrome stuff on it.
Mine does too lol but my toolbox and cb antennas. But looking at buying parts (roll bars, grille guard, nerf bars, tiregate, etc) black is cheaper lol
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