New Shell
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New Shell
The truck is now 3 weeks old and the shell is getting put on. 2016 F-250 Platinum and the shell is a Leer model 122 with side sliding window, front sliding full removable window and the ceiling carpet.. This starts the full build of the bed area to include custom built bed drawers, under rail lighting, ceiling lights and more. This shell is huge inside and once the drawers and platform are built a full size mattress will fit nicely for the wife and I to sleep on when hauling the bikes around.
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While playing with the truck, I kept seeing the ugly *** green valve stem caps on the tires and decided they needed to go....Nitrogen in your tires is a joke in the first place, yes, we used it in the race car but the tires on my truck do not generate near the heat, and the green caps are just stupid. So I decided it needed something cool. Being a gun toting redneck car guy I decided to ad a little 2nd amendment flare. I had some used .380, .40, 9mm and .45 brass laying around and started sizing it up. Decided the .45 cal fit best so polished up 4 brass and 4 aluminum. Here is 2 of each after polishing...
Took the brass and slid a black plastic valve cap inside, fit was real loose so I took it out and added a large dab of gorilla glue inside then put the cap back in and let it dry. Next morning I tried it on the truck and love it. Cap goes inside far enough that the brass comes down over the rubber stem a bit and makes for a nice fit. This pic is the brass but I decided the aluminum looks better with these wheels so I set up all the caps in aluminum and have been running them a couple weeks now with no lost caps
Lots more upgrades to go.
Took the brass and slid a black plastic valve cap inside, fit was real loose so I took it out and added a large dab of gorilla glue inside then put the cap back in and let it dry. Next morning I tried it on the truck and love it. Cap goes inside far enough that the brass comes down over the rubber stem a bit and makes for a nice fit. This pic is the brass but I decided the aluminum looks better with these wheels so I set up all the caps in aluminum and have been running them a couple weeks now with no lost caps
Lots more upgrades to go.
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Looks good. I use mine for camping too. My son and I took it to Big Bend NP this past spring. We ended up using cots. We can fit two cots in there side by side and it leaves about 1.5-2 feet at the tailgate end of the bed. It worked pretty well. In this pic we flipped one cot on top of the other and put our mountain bikes in the back. It's a little dark in this pic, but it is there.
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