[QUOTE=white89gt;4842503]Is she sitting a little high in the A$ $? Something looks a bit wonky.



No she sits fine. She has lift blocks in the rear, but what you are seeing is my freaking driveway. It runs way down hill right there. The front bars are raised also, giving the look it has.

 

OK.... now I see that. Sometimes I just need someone to point my eyes the right way, lol. Is it really that light out at 11pm up yonder?

I don't know about you AK... but I've got a sneaking suspicion that if'n our 4.6's were to get a seized diff... well, that 4.6 would break itself loose. Oh wait, maybe I'm thinking about the 4.2 that the 4R70W was designed around.

 

From May to August we get daylight about 19-22 hours a day. Barrow is 24 hours of daylight currently and goes to little or nothing basically in the winter. My security cameras stay colored until well after midnight and then are fully colored again after 330 am. I'm so used to the long days of summer and short days of winter after 60 plus years of it. lol One good thing about the daylight, summer is more fun, and winters are more intense with the significant other half. lol

 

I'll try this once more, -how many miles?

 

I thought I listed it before. Sorry. It has 162000 on the clock, I thought it said 152k, but didn't read it right. The seats will come out today, and hopefully the new one will go back in tonight. I may have to wait until tomorrow to get it though, as it is in a storage yard he says. At least it will get cleaned out today.

 

Ok. Here are a couple pics of the inside with the seats removed. Does anyone have the name of a super good carpet cleaner in say a spray? You can see the interior is okay with the exception of the carpet, and the missing foot plates inside on the body/door area. I need about 4 items total and the carpet cleaned and the inside will be done. This 98 has a different radio plug from Ford than my 98's rectangular 16 pin black plug. This truck takes the Escape type radio, so I'll move mine into this truck and have navigation on it, and it doesn't cost me anything. That's good. I want to see how cheap I can get this done.

The last picture is the damage he did bringing it to town. The more I look at it today, the madder I got. Stuff happens I guess. No lol on this.

 

My friend bought me an Armor All car care kit that had some "Tuff Stuff" in it. That works OK for small stuff. When I used to detail cars, we made a solution or regular powdered Tide and water. Scrubbing that in and then wet vacuuming was by far the best thing I've ever used. Plus it does wonders on the odors.

 

The best I've used is the shampooer from a Hoover household carpet cleaner. When the dirt is ground in those thing use scalding hot water. You keep laying down the just the hot water at first with hand tool give it about 30 seconds and suck right back out and repeat. It'll get every bit of dirt out. Once you get the bulk out, you scrub the stains. Trick is to never let it over saturate or it's a PITA to extract. You can die the carpet a dirt color if there's no way to extract.

On the flip side, once they get enough wear to them and it's just old, it's a hell of a lot easier springing for 100 bucks and just replace it. You do that and you get form fitted new stuff and that new truck smell back. You can get very good quality carpet made just for the truck or you can poor and mediocre.

It's a 98, - if you can get that old stuff to look and smell alright your lucky. I've always kept mine clean, Scotchguard and all that jazz, but at this point it's just old and wearing out. 100 or 150 bucks for new is worth it IMO.

That truck has plenty of potential, specially for what you have into it so far. Hows the rockers and door bottoms ? Is the interior or dash parts scratched up ? The doors interior panels look good.

 

It is a great Idea, but one major problem Most places don't ship to Alaska or Hawaii, without some major cash outlay for frieght. I ordered an awning tarp, and even though it was boxed and mailable, it still cost over 90 to ship to me. UPS ground and FEDEx ground are very expensive to here, even though we are a hub for both. We get raped by both those carriers up here. USPS is by far the cheapest way for us to get most things. Amazon is really the only other source, and that is hit and miss for AK/HI also.

 

The one good thing about it is, you did get a free pony tail holder. I bet he didn't see that or he woulda taken it with him.