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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 02:19 AM
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I'm wanting to change the look of my truck. I'm wanting to add some color and give it a cleaner look. I'm thinking about taking the camo off and painting a bunch of my suspension components red. Like my cross member, rear differential, torsion bar drop and anything else. Anyone got their input cause I need some ideas to clean my truck up a little bit!

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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 02:37 AM
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I immediately noticed that the black door trim molding is a bit strong of a contrast. I'm not much for the vent visor colors, but eh...It doesn't look bad like it is. Paint can do so much for a vehicle. I wouldn't go hog wild with a bright color like red though. Maybe just in small sections or certain items. The black will be an excellent contrast to the red.

Basically, your truck looks good like it is.
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 05:18 AM
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If you are going for a cleaner look then I would paint the suspension silver like the truck. Less different colors seems cleaner to me and the silver would look goo under there
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 07:42 AM
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I think you should do silver and like a metallic blue on your suspension and peel the door trim.
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by 4x4wolf
If you are going for a cleaner look then I would paint the suspension silver like the truck. Less different colors seems cleaner to me and the silver would look goo under there
I do like that idea!
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 09:29 AM
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I think you should remove the front FORD cut out. It is cleaner without it.

PS, I'll take it off you hands. Let me know
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 12:08 PM
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Door trim and change out the camo decals for black and plastidip the vent shades that way you can always just peel it off. The silver suspension components would look really good under there. I would probly do something about the chrome bumpers too but thats just me. PTM door handles and black hi temp paint on the exhaust too.

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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by jprevat
Door trim and change out the camo decals for black and plastidip the vent shades that way you can always just peel it off. The silver suspension components would look really good under there. I would probly do something about the chrome bumpers too but thats just me. PTM door handles and black hi temp paint on the exhaust too.
Those are good ideas. The door handles are just plastidipped as well as the door trim. And I will probably PTM the lower valence and paint the chrome black
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 12:23 PM
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Take the bull bar off, the door trim, the camo vent visors and the CB antenna and that would clean it up alot.
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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by SJP
Take the bull bar off, the door trim, the camo vent visors and the CB antenna and that would clean it up alot.
Well if I took the bull bar off it'll show the cracked valence haha
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