Yes, 4" LED strips

Today:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=143983

That thing looks sick man! You know it's pretty easy to straighten out that bumper.. When I put my 35s on I had to do it. (stock height rubbed the bumper just a wee bit.) Bought washers to shim it so it didn't rub but never ended up using them. It's just a matter of loosening a few bolts and holding it where you want it while someone snugs them down. Either way, she looks good.

Thanks!

As for the bumper... It's a little more difficult to adjust because I made some 1/4" steel mounts for it to raise it when I did the body lift. I can still get it adjusted though. May do it when it's warm out again, til then it's not a priority. In the spring I plan to be doing a little bodywork and stuff before I get the truck painted, so I'll probably do it then.

Looking good! How's the new motor power wise?

Killer. She'll fly. I've race a few people on the highway, and it'll really go. Raced a Raptor from 40 to 75 MPH and was about just ahead of him. Raced a 2012 RAM 1500 5.7 Hemi from 45 to 80 MPH and was able to stay ahead by a hair. Really impressed with it so far.

I love tapping the gas rolling around town and feeling the whole truck torque to the side, lol.

Took the truck out in the snow today. Have about 6-7" so far where I am. I think it's supposed to snow some more tonight.

Even though it was slick, I didn't need 4x4 for much other than getting out of my driveway. Liking the 37s so far.

Nice! Nothing like beating up on newer rigs! Enjoy the snow, apparently it's going to turn to sleet and rain by the time it reaches RI... boo.

Yeah, it's a blast. Unexpected for the other drivers too, haha

It was mostly sleeting when I was out. It's supposed to dump some more snow/ice tonight. I was glad that they aren't putting out road salt, just sanding the roads.

Wow that's cool! How many strips did you use 2?

Yep, 2. One comes on when the parking lights/headlights come one, and the other comes on when I step on the brake. Works nicely.

Just ordered a new speedometer gear to finally set my speedo/odometer right for the 37s. Don't know why I didn't do it sooner... It's only a $10 part and takes 5 minutes to put in.

Going from a 19 tooth driven gear to a 17 tooth gear. By my math, that'll put it within 2.3% of being correct. Really not so worried about the speedo, but I like to track mileage by the odometer for oil changes and tracking fuel mileage. Using google maps or my GPS is getting old when I want to track MPG.

Looks good man. When you repaint it are you keeping the body side moulding?
Trav

I plan on taking it off. If I miss it I'll probably buy new moulding. I've seen a couple perfect condition trucks around town without it and think it looks okay. Haven't decided, but a pinstripe might be nice where the colors meet where the moulding currently is. I plan on getting it painted the same colors.

Honestly, it's hard for me too see my truck without the moulding, but I'll see how it goes.

Personally and this is just my opinion I would take it off and put a red pinstripe like you have now to offset the colors. I never cared for the body side moulding as around here if falls off fast. First thing I did to my 88 body wise was take off the trim style bumper.
Trav

I took mine off when it started coming off by itself, and it was starting to look pretty ratty as well. At that point I also decided to go back with the original color of black. When I priced some new moulding (ouch), I decided it could stay off.

The moulding on mine is original and isn't coming off anywhere, so I'm not so worried about that. I'm just going to see how I like it with it off and go from there.

Trav, I do like the red pinstripe. That's probably what I'll have done.

On the 86 we use to have it had the stainless with black insert in it. I took the black insert off off the truck and was going to polish the stainless part so that it looked better but never got to it.

Can't wait to see it done.
Trav

If anything goes back on, it'll probably be like what was on you 86. I like that. It's aluminum though not stainless, right?

I am not sure I can't remember. Here is a pic maybe you can tell. Personally I don't think it would look that good on a 87-91 Ford.
Trav
These pics are before I tore the moulding off we traded the truck in right after I took it all off.
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...ofBlueJay2.jpg
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...ofBlueJay5.jpg

Awesome! Yea I plan on using it as a third brake light, I hate how my 92 doesn't have one

Hmm... That's not the same thing I was picturing. I've seen a molding on a few 92-97 trucks that's shaped the same as the regular molding but it's got a lot more aluminum in it. I think it must have been either an upgrade you could order or only certain packages got it.

Seemed like a good idea to me. Then someone told me it would be more effective to put one on my differential with the height of my truck, lol.

Good luck man! Make sure you wire everything safely.

I think I know what you are talking about.
Trav

I think it was available on the 87-91 trucks too, but I hardly see any of this generation trucks on the road around me. Haven't spotted an 8th gen with that moulding yet.

Ya around here there are only about 5 or 6 87-91 trucks and all of them have the body side moulding like yours. My 88 F150 and our 89 F250 didn't come with body side moulding and our 89 F350 I tore off shortly after getting the truck as when we paint it it is going to be bare (probably no emblems too). For some reason I mostly see 92-96s and a few 97-04 heritages the rest there are few off. Mostly around here are Toyotas for some reason.
Trav

I live in a rich area (median income of $118k last year for the county), and most trucks are like 5 years old or newer around here. Not many people that appreciate old pickups. Most of the time I see older trucks around here they're construction vehicles and stuff. Usually beat to death.

Everything is beat to death around here we live on backroads most of us haul tons of junk, and offroad like crazy. Once in a while you will find a clean truck but very rarely. You would be surprised what calls as good condition around here. That and prices for 4x4 fords are really high usually. I see 87-91s go for $3500 on up and that is with 200k miles or more. Once in a while you will find a good deal on a truck.
I couldn't believe it when the guy who sold me my 88 F150 said $400 even with the intake off and such.
Trav

Wow... Where I am it's hard to even find a place to go off-roading... Gotta search hard then dodge the law to have a little fun. I don't mind the prices if you can get something that's actually in good shape, but it sounds like that's not the case there.

Well around here you usually have to get a truck not running cheap (they are usually the ones in good shape) and fix them up. hence why we have so many pickup trucks and I end up getting tons of ideas to make them sweet just end up having stuff like weather, and the house get in the way. One day our trucks will be like yours.
All of our trucks we have either paid cheap or they were on payments:
97 expedition: $2200 (clean body and all but has 180K and needs a few parts here and there)
88 F150: like I said before $400 (clean body just needs some part and TLC which I think I am close and I have only put $300 or so into it)
89 F250: $700 running no bed and right side wrecked ($250 for flatbed free fender, core support and such and bam good truck just need to figure out what went wrong now that it isn't running (I believe it was the inertia switch)
89 F350: $100 (not running needs complete rebuild, got a flatbed need some parts for the clip but $100 is really cheap I could make more if I scrapped it)
84 B2: $400 needed a few parts for front clip and rusted but ran great.
02 F250: this one we are paying payments on will be $18k when paid off this truck has a clean body (has a few dents) but runs great.
The 86 F150 I posted was $2000 running and driving clean body I just beat it up being I liked to show off.
these are just the fords not going to list the bikes and chevy.

Edit: as for offroading around here nobody cares as long as you don't ruin the roads and you go up to the part that is called BLM where you are allowed to ofroad. Now ruin the roads good luck getting away without your tailgate being peppered. LOL
Anyways sorry for getting so far off topic.
Trav

Lol yea your truck has a pretty high ride height which is awesome! Yea were did you tap into for the brake light? I have a friend do all my wiring he does all the wiring to my towns fire department etc hes been doing it for awhile everything is soldered and shrinkwrapped nice clean work

Follow the brake pedal lever up and you'll see a two green wires on the switch that turns on the brake lights. One of these has power all the time and the other gets power when you press the pedal. Easy to tap into.

Sounds good. That's how I do all of my wiring.

Ok thank you Collin

I was getting some oil sucking through my PCV. I think it has to do with the baffle valve covers I have. I put a filter in the PCV line to try to trap the oil and see just what's happening.

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Put a new air filter on the carb too. Drove it about 160 miles one way on a trip and tracked 9.5 mpg averaging about 65 mph by GPS. I could've slowed down to the 55 mph speed limit to get better mpg, but I was trying to get down the road.

Finally got my new speedometer/odometer gear installed. It's pretty close now, within 3% of being totally accurate. 55 MPH on my GPS reads 53.5 on the speedo. Much better than the 45 MPH that it showed before @55 MPH actual speed. Even more glad that my odometer will be accurate again for tracking miles and fuel economy.

Where did you get the gear? I need to do this to mine..

Ordered from Summit. It was only like $10. Jegs and BroncoGraveyard also have them.

Niceeeee. Thanks! My truck tops out at about 60 anyways.. just want is for the Odo. I would be VERY surprised if I got pulled over for speeding.. :-X04

Same. With my gearing and no overdrive I rarely run over 65 for any period of time. All the highways around me are 55 mph limit anyhow, so doesn't really matter.

Update Time...

About 2,500 miles since the engine rebuild, and it's doing awesome. Still sucking a little oil through the PCV, but that's an aftermarket valve cover baffle issue. I've been running a 3/8" fixed orifice (straight through) fitting for the PCV which certainly hasn't helped. I bought some various filtered breathers and PCV valves yesterday to try out and see what gives me the best results.


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Got some new lights on my push bar yesterday:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=146742


Here's a comparison for you, not the greatest because it was foggy out:

Regular Headlights:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=146743

Push Bar Lights:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=146744

The lights don't have an extremely long range. About the same range as the headlights, but they give a lot more light on the side of the road and I don't feel like I'm driving through a tunnel anymore. I also like the crisp white light.

I ordered some headlight bulbs that should put out a similar white light and hopefully project a little further.

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I still haven't gotten to my power steering cooler yet... It's the kind that runs in a loop pattern on the front crossmember under the engine, & I think some road debris put a pin-hole in it or something. I have an original Ford 2-row power steering cooler that mounts in front of the radiator. I'm going to mount that & run steel lines to/from it, flare them, and use small sectons of power steering return line to connect to the cooler and reservoir which will keep the needed flex in it for body/frame travel, bouncing, etc... I wanted to get to that today, but it's raining...


I've been thinking about getting a bed cap. At least for winters. I've had ice frozen in my bed for almost 2 weeks now, and I don't exactly like it. Plus it would be nice to be able to keep things in my bed without fear of stuff getting wet. If I got one it would have to be flat with the top of the truck cab. I can be picky about stuff looking right. I would also get it painted at the same time that I get the truck painted. I see decent used caps anywhere from $50-$300 locally. Just something running through my head...