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Old 01-10-2017, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Tav29

Replaced headlight and taillight bulbs with LED's Front passenger side LED vs. Driver side old bulbs. I hate that yellow tint.

You would've been much better off buying a set of Philips X-treme vision bulbs and putting those in. All you'll ever do with those LEDs or HIDs for that matter is blind oncoming traffic and cut yourself short on how far down the road you can see.

I'd recommend ditching the LEDs for some Philips bulbs, they're a whole lot whiter than the bulbs you had in before but shine a whole lot further down the road than those LEDs ever will. Proven fact.
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I like that trailer lol.
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Originally Posted by Jbrew
I like that trailer lol.
She could handle more than the ole f150s could reasonably tow and stop me thinks.

A buddy is moving at the end of Jan. Has 2 race car haulers with living quarters lined up. I'll be taking a video as it might be the last time my truck is drivable. Lmao. They use a 350 and a semi to pull them.

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Originally Posted by Tackle
She could handle more than the ole f150s could reasonably tow and stop me thinks.

A buddy is moving at the end of Jan. Has 2 race car haulers with living quarters lined up. I'll be taking a video as it might be the last time my truck is drivable. Lmao. They use a 350 and a semi to pull them.
Yea. Since she's probably about a ton empty I expect.

I have a little one car hauler, as light as I could find at the time and it's right at 1900 lbs empty lol.
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The heavy 16ft trailer I pull tractors around on weighs in at 1900 empty. These trucks can handle a few tons alright... you just better plan your stops accordingly. Lol
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Originally Posted by jprevat
The heavy 16ft trailer I pull tractors around on weighs in at 1900 empty. These trucks can handle a few tons alright... you just better plan your stops accordingly. Lol
Luckily not many stops and only 10 miles of 60mph highway. Used price of these trailers were 40k and 60k. Hopefully no snow that day. The house buyer drives a 2015 Silverado. Will be interesting to see how that does also.
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Originally Posted by Tackle
Luckily not many stops and only 10 miles of 60mph highway. Used price of these trailers were 40k and 60k. Hopefully no snow that day. The house buyer drives a 2015 Silverado. Will be interesting to see how that does also.
That doesn't sound too bad. I'm pretty curious how those Chevy's do as well.
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I just bought my 04 Heritage last week, so it's gotten new tires, brakes, upper and lower ball joints and control arms last week. This week it had to be cleaned up, absolutely filthy when I bought it. I pulled over $9 worth of change out of it. So it got a vacuum and full interior detail. It still had a cig smell to it so it got a can of Dakota odor killer and let it go off. That stuff works.

Today it got clay barred and a coat of swirlx to get rid of the horrendous oxidation on the paint. A little touch up and it's ready for a coat of wax tomorrow.

I think that may be the first love that trucks had in several years. Looks pretty good now.
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Finished undercoating the cab of the truck today, then got most of all the rust spots underneath the bed sprayed with rust reformer. Yes, I know I missed a few spots with the undercoating. I only had 3 cans of it so had to use all of what I had getting as much of everything covered and coated well, and didn't have any left to touch up spots that didn't get fully covered or got barely missed.

I also took a big mallet and knocked the dents in my wheel wells back out so they look round again, and treated all the scratches and surface rust spots in the bed with rust reformer as well in preparation for whenever I get around to bed lining my bed.
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Originally Posted by Jbrew
I like that trailer lol.

What's so Funny? Clown!. I have a F350 that pulls that.


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