Big Pete

Replaced my TPS sensor. Easy job but holy cow, the walls of my throttle body were dirty. Will that hurt anything?

bscottie

did some underhood cleaning, painted valve covers and plenum, new valve cover gaskets installed, plenum tomorrow. also pulled of old distributer cap, have never had a vehicle with one as bad a shape as this, not sure how the truck could run at all, will see what a difference it makes with a new one.

broncojunkie

Installed these today:

Just call me Sean

iTrader: (1)

I've never "installed" a sticker before.

redneckfordf2502002

It is quite complicated actually it is peel and stick. LOL
Trav

Camacorn

Re-upholstered the dash pad on my Flareside, was the only thing left on the interior to be restored. My interior is now 100% restored.

Also put a shelf by the sun-visors.

At night the camera quality makes the interior look dirty lol, I'll take a better one tomorrow morning.

Big Pete

Please send me some feedback on the shelf. I have seen them in LMC and wanted to get one.

Camacorn

I got it out of the 1994 Extended Cab I just sold two weeks ago, it was originally red, but I had some leftover gray headliner from when I redid the headliner in this same Flareside, so I wrapped it in that earlier today. I personally like the look of them, and will make use of it here and there to hold my cellphone, wallet, and some misc. items, mainly an aesthetics thing for me though.

If you are a tall person it may be a little annoying as it does hang down about two inches from the headliner.

One bonus is that it blocks the sun from getting in your eyes, without having to flip the sun visors down. Not that it really matters now because I installed my lund sun visor yesterday.

How much are they at LMC? I personally wouldn't spend more than $20.00, for that you could build your own, as it's just a long piece of sheet metal that is bent up on both sides. May even be able to find one in a super-duty truck at a junkyard as Ford added them from the factory to some trucks.

shoudust

How did you reupholster the dash? I have 2 cracks in mine and they are driving me nuts!

Camacorn

To clarify the dashpad is the vinyl pad piece on the dashboard. All you have to do is take the old vinyl off, purchase some to match it, I got mine at Jo-Anne Fabrics for $10. It is called 'Dark Gray Automotive Vinyl' incase you goto the same place. Then get some spray-on adhesive for about $5 from an auto parts or home improvement store, spray the foam generously, but not too much, slowly apply the new vinyl and spread it around with your hands to prevent wrinkles or air pockets, cut the excess vinyl off, leaving about an inch extra to fold around the back of the pad, and press it firmly around the entire dash pad, let it sit overnight to dry.

Doing around the radio cutout is a little difficult, you have to heat the vinyl around the creases so that it bends properly around them, that or cut and fold it over if you don't mind having the cuts show. I personally just heated it.

Kind of hard to explain without showing you step-by-step, but hopefully this gave some idea. It is time consuming, and easy to mess up if you haven't done it before, so it's probably better to try and find one at a junkyard if you are worried about messing up.