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Old 02-03-2015, 10:17 PM
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Hey guys, thanks for the positive comments, sorry Jefk, I forgot to post back lol, I do have 3:55 gears. A quick update on the truck:

Got a headache rack:




After a year of contemplation, I finally got the 4x4 stickers:



Then I got bored with nothing to do, so I painted the scuffed up plastic on the console.

Where'd you get your headache rack? It looks awesome. BTW truck looks great too
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Very Nice, I remember being 16 (lol 6 years ago) and I wanted a truck but everybody selling them wanted way too much for what they were ordering so I but the bullet and Bought a few cars (4 to be exact) and when I finished college at 19 and got my career going I bought my 13 FX4!!!
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Originally Posted by ZRAINH20
Where'd you get your headache rack? It looks awesome. BTW truck looks great too
Thank you, the headache rack I had a fab guy weld up so I didn't have to spend 400 bucks on a brand new one lol. There is no structure to it though, you can wiggle the thing back and fourth...
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Originally Posted by festivaboy92
Very Nice, I remember being 16 (lol 6 years ago) and I wanted a truck but everybody selling them wanted way too much for what they were ordering so I but the bullet and Bought a few cars (4 to be exact) and when I finished college at 19 and got my career going I bought my 13 FX4!!!
Thank you. When I got my truck (mind you, this was stock) my grandparents, aunts and uncles where telling me how this was too big for me, and how I was going to kill myself, etc. Over a year later, no collisions (that where my fault anyway).
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I re-did the throttle body cover, I just didn't like how the spray paint turned out. I figured that looked pretty good so I went ahead and did the air intake as well.


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I finally got leaf springs out of a F-250 LD, and put an add-a-leaf in them and installed them today. My U-bolts where just barley long enough for the amount of lift I got. Before from the center of the hub to the bottom of the fender was 26.5", and after it is about 29.37". We had to relocate the E-brake cable, but for now I think all is good.


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I repainted the skid plate today, I spray painted it when I got the lift but it wasn't holding up good with rocks so I am hoping plasti dip will. I like the previous color a lot more, but I don't like seeing little black dots everywhere the rocks hit haha.






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Yea you should tell be how it goes, i want to dip my grille
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Trucks looking good dude! I actually like the way the plastidip came out on there better. If that doesn't work though, you should look into some gator liner. I think thats what its called anyways. Its a roll on bedliner that you can tint to any color. It would probably hold up pretty good.
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Thanks guys, I ended up taking it off and just powder coating it. Little late on the update but I got the skid plate powder coated in red hammer.


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