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Old Sep 16, 2015 | 07:48 PM
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Not much of an update but I finally found my spare tire carrier. These things are hard to come by.










And a shot of my franken turbo










And from my labor day weekend I spotted this old school gem.

 
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Old Sep 16, 2015 | 10:18 PM
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i did not know they were hard to come by... i have two in my scrap pile(spare tire holders)
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Old Sep 17, 2015 | 08:57 AM
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i did not know they were hard to come by... i have two in my scrap pile(spare tire holders)
1953
On this side of Texas I guess most people like carrying their spare tire on the bed non of the jk had them i was lucky to even find one
 
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Old Sep 17, 2015 | 09:11 AM
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And a shot of my franken turbo



You have to change that OLD ORANGE intake boot, they are known as goes bad and dust your turbo, and I can see barely a cut near the clamp in the bottom.



 
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Old Sep 17, 2015 | 10:17 AM
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You have to change that OLD ORANGE intake boot, they are known as goes bad and dust your turbo, and I can see barely a cut near the clamp in the bottom.



Way ahead of you i just order one from riffraf on monday.
 
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Old Sep 17, 2015 | 11:24 AM
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Way ahead of you i just order one from riffraf on monday.
Good for your turbo



 
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Old Sep 20, 2015 | 12:19 PM
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Another small update on the interior
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So I decided to paint the trim pieces from the seats with this color.


Painted







And installed on the seats












I told myself, doors missing something, decided to pop out the rear perforated lart of the panel (I did not know the rears were hold by clips) so I saved time not removing the whole door pannel
The before and after.













Driver side not so much still looking for one.



 
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Old Sep 20, 2015 | 03:34 PM
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Now that really made a difference. Looks good. Isn't that intake a little loud when towing? You have the prefect set up for this truck with out going over board for your use. Glad to here how it worked out.
 
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Old Sep 20, 2015 | 03:51 PM
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Now that really made a difference. Looks good. Isn't that intake a little loud when towing? You have the prefect set up for this truck with out going over board for your use. Glad to here how it worked out.
The turbo loud, Not so much, my straight pipe muffles it.
But in reality it doesn't bother me it's not so overwhelming, I can hear my kids talk and a plus they love the sound of what they call "Mommys Gun"(hair dryer) my Excursion pulling the same trailer, now thats a whole can of worms. That thing is loud, its straight piped 5.4
 
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Old Sep 22, 2015 | 10:33 PM
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Trying to fix the driver side door panel while I find a door panel.




Tall tale of someone tried to fix the door panel before.









My sorry attemp to fix it, the plastic molding was falling apart so I did my best to save it.



Then some paint to mask of the uggly.







Instaled, I know looks crappy but its just for the mean time so it cam match the rest of the doors.









Guess I forgot a picture of it installed
Dam some of the pictures did not save on my phone
 
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Old Sep 24, 2015 | 08:50 AM
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Did you happen to clean that door before reinstalling the panel? Just wondering. You're inspiring to start fixing the small thing on my interior now that most of the mechanics are accomplished. Nice job man!
 
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Old Sep 24, 2015 | 10:29 AM
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Did you happen to clean that door before reinstalling the panel? Just wondering. You're inspiring to start fixing the small thing on my interior now that most of the mechanics are accomplished. Nice job man!
I did, looked like new.
Also fixed the holes were the door panel bolts to they were stripped, a good hamer to them till they were flat and back to shape. The door don't squeek no more
 
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Old Sep 25, 2015 | 09:49 PM
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Went to the jk in search of my door panel today.



The jk is huge almost a 3/4 of a mile. None of the 60 obs trucks had the driver side panel, even the broncos but I did manage to score a tail gate



Has a small dent but the one I had was trashed.

Heres was another candidate but was warped in the inside and the alum piece had some broken clips



I guess it wasn't a waste of time after all

Anyone looking for the D60 swap with coils or leaf springs there were 20 trucks from 99 all the way way to 2010 but they were all missing the hub assembly (stupid people most of wich come from other jks sell them in their jk to have a huge profit on this parts. Imagine a complete axle is only $150.00 and they just take the hub assemblys
 
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Old Sep 25, 2015 | 10:07 PM
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Wow! We have quite a few salvage yards here I need to go looking in soon. I need mostly the same stuff you do....interior stuff. I also need a glove box door if you happen to see one. Some idiot took the cig lighter in mine and melted circles into the plastic.
 
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Old Sep 25, 2015 | 10:38 PM
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Wow! We have quite a few salvage yards here I need to go looking in soon. I need mostly the same stuff you do....interior stuff. I also need a glove box door if you happen to see one. Some idiot took the cig lighter in mine and melted circles into the plastic.
There is tons of those no one takes them, best part every color ford put on our trucks are her in this particular jk. Like mentioned before everything for our obs except the driver side door panels pm me to see what color you looking for
 
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