So I was not a member of FTE when I did the paint on the Mistress so I have decide to back up and start a build thread from the beginning. So here we go.


When we first started striping the paint off.
































More pic of her coming apart.






Getting the frame ready for POR 15.












My father-n-law helping get it ready if it was not for him I would still be working on her he help a lot.






























I did not get any pic with the bed all the way to the metal here is some in etching primer.















frame all painted and fuel tanks back in.

















Cab all strip to metal.






I will post more just need to make sure this many pics will work at once.

 

Nice work. the pics worked fine. congrats.

 

OK that worked so more pics to come.


More pics of the cab striped




















Bed getting ready to paint.












hood getting ready to paint.



Painted under the bed.
















Dually fender in primer.






Tailgate in primer.



Paint on the out side of the bed.















Dually fender after puffing it.












Bed going back together.



Cab getting ready for paint. Etching primer and urethane primer and then a lot of block sanding.































My other helper my brother Eddie. It's kind of starting to look like I did not even work on this project but I was the on with the camera.LOL











running boards off ready to be taken apart and polished and bracket painted.





















I did not get any pics of the truck soild black before the flames was added.
Putting the flames on. Another pic of my brother he helped a lot also.



















Finally starting back together and this is were the truck got its name Mistress because I was spending my time with the truck than I was with my wife. I worked on the Mistress for 9 month just about every day after work and I am off on Fridays so three day weekends there was a lot of hours not at home.

 

More paint pics.














A pic of me see I did work on the truck. LOL Oh I guest that is not work.





I don't have many assembly pics or I have misplace them.
Truck back together











2013 trip to F100 Supernationals hotel parking lot.







New spray in bed liner.





Interior





New head liner


















All new rear Motorcraft brakes and all new Rancho RS5000 shocks.
































Etching primer backing plates.







Paint backing plates.








Brake assembly.

 

Getting close to where we are today.

TS 6 position chip






Tool box for Mistress I know you all have seen a lot of these pics but I am trying to put every thing in one place to continue the build.

 

Looks like you need another mistress. Maybe you would consider mail order!

 

Nice, Nice, Nice!!!! So, if your going to continue the build, is the engine next?

 

that looks great, i hope to be able to do that one day with the big white truck.

 

Very very nice Kevin! You have some wickedly good painting skills. Was your truck a 4X4 dually from the factory, or was it a conversion?

 

It was a conversion Ford never made a factory 4X4 dually until 1999. The only 6 wheeler they made in the OBS was a cab & chassis truck single cab only.

 

I don't think I would live threw another one. LOL



Thanks Glenn I am not sure how far I will go but I got some new parts this week I will post some pics today.




Thanks, and good luck on your build.


Thanks ,

 

I got new 5" diamond eye exhaust from Clay this week for my truck. It shipped direct from Diamond eye.
























Shipping was a little rough on it but it straight up easy the down one piece of 5" was bent and one end of down pipe.



















And the box the hard wear was in I live in TN it was shipped from OR so it could have been worse.

 

I worked on the tool box yesterday. Sanded, puff and started reassembly.

























I hope to get it in the truck next weekend I still like a little on the assembly of the latch and some weather striping.

 

I LOVE ALL THE PICTURES! Great work Kevin!

So did you get the cab down to bear metal by sandblasting? Did you use plastic tarp to set up an enclosed area in your shop or do it outside?

 

Chemical strip and D/A sander. The plastic was used to keep the over spray off everything in the shop I used a exhaust fan to put the over spray out.