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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 11:20 AM
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Normally don't ask what others think of the truck. But I'm looking to do something to the truck.

If anybody has any cool idea or such just tell me.

Color is Oxford white with dark shadow gray I believe. Skid plates are ford cardinal red.

Engine is 4.6 stock, 150k miles; oil change every 3k.

All my inside lights are LED besides my dash... (when I learned mine wouldn't be blue I lost interest)
Front lower valance is black plasti dipped. (doing white plasti next)

I have the Herculiner for my bed; need to sand that. Also have rustolium undercoating for my underbody.

If you have any advice for them two projects let me know.

Here is a few pictures.
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 12:08 PM
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Well you could do a coupe of things that you may or may not like. I can't tell if your grill is black already or not. I bed lined the bottoms strip on my truck and I know there have been others who have as well. You have a light bar upfront Maybe you could do like a prerunner tire holder in the rear. What's your budget because that is the biggest obstacle when it comes to mods?
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 12:12 PM
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My budget is pretty much whatever I think is worth it. To be honest I Never thought of a holder in the back.

My grill is not painted; I should do that. I just need to research a bit more on what kind of paint to use and how to sand it and such.
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 12:36 PM
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Remove the door moldings.
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 12:44 PM
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Remove the door moldings, and 09+ style emblems..
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Mantic
My budget is pretty much whatever I think is worth it. To be honest I Never thought of a holder in the back.

My grill is not painted; I should do that. I just need to research a bit more on what kind of paint to use and how to sand it and such.
Ok and for the grill I used pair for plastic and I just washed it and sprayed it with my compressor and painted it. As for other mods maybe you could look into a small lift and some better rims and tires? What's your setup now torsions cranked?
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 01:08 PM
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I realllly wanna remove the door moldings; but working at a retail store with lots of shopping carts they see a lot of impact.
I do agree they make the truck look a lot less clean.

And the truck is stock as far as t bars go. It's on 285/70/17 with ALOT of tread height to it.

Has anybody ever seen a bed mounted tire mount for our trucks?
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 01:24 PM
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I really like the look with the black rims.
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Mantic
I realllly wanna remove the door moldings; but working at a retail store with lots of shopping carts they see a lot of impact.
I do agree they make the truck look a lot less clean.

And the truck is stock as far as t bars go. It's on 285/70/17 with ALOT of tread height to it.

Has anybody ever seen a bed mounted tire mount for our trucks?
So maybe you could run 305s with a little tbar crank and make your truck look Beefier. Iv seen one myself but could never find it. It was a tire holder that served as a tailgate and I saw him open the tailgate and the entire holder and all came out with it
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 02:36 PM
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The dudes at the tire shop don't think it will be that safe to run tires much wider then what I have on my fx4 rims. I believe they said they were only 7 inch in width.

But yeah. The black rims was plasti dip. It worked really well. I left the center caps black after I removed the rest off the wheels.
I have white plasti dip coming in that I'm gonna give a shot.

Also; my LMC truck parts mag just came in. I feel like its Christmas
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