Man if Hvyhaulr can fit his jeep in his 550, why can't I fit a 29' rv in the 8' bed of this truck

 

Man brotha, super nice job on giving this truck some life and making it look good in the process. I sure appreciate you keeping the love alive!

 

Finally got rid of the stupid light bar, truck looks 100% better IMO.

 

500% improvement.

 

Enjoy all your hard work!

Keep it!

Thread #5097 proving A) these are tough trucks and B) the 7.3 is a frikken anvil.

 

I would keep it but have too many vehicles right now and full size trucks. Unless someone wants to buy my 2wd 5.4 X or my 2wd 07 f150 cc step side I would gladly keep this bad boy

Shoot, for the right price I would consider getting rid of my pride and joy (obs) and I would gladly keep this truck.

Fun fact truck driver offered me 12k for the obs when I went to pick it up it from paint shop and I declined it, so for the right price who knows.....

 

One thing the PO or who ever installed that hiddeous LED bar got right was not drilling a hole on the roof, they actually ran the wires thru one of the cab lights and drilled the lense and installed a grommet for the wires. Now I'm stuck with plugging the holes on the door jam where the bracket was riveted on.

 

Keep it keep it keep it keep it

 

What I am really looking forward to is the interior transformation....then my OCD will be satisfied....let's goooooooo LOL

 

Step dad had one of those LED bars installed on his 2013 and I had to cringe a little when I saw they drilled holes in the roof. He has questionable automotive taste though. I bought him a nice expensive bolt on LED bar for the grill that looks OEM but that wasn't enough LED's I guess. No true car guy would ever go drilling holes in the paint and sheet metal IMO.

 

It really is starting to look like a keeper. Especially now that the light bar is off the cab.

Is there driver side front door open a bit, out of alignment or is the molding peeling away a bit? Maybe it is just a play of the camera angle, but it looks like it doesn't line up with the back door.

I recently installed some color matched molding like we see on the 2003 trucks and it looks great. If the black and silver molding is peeling off, I can get you a link if you would like.

 

Keep the OBS and get rid of the other two. But I'm not an Excursion or half-ton guy to be fair.

 

Qué pasa hermano ... La vida ha estado demasiado ocupada para jugar con la nueva atracción?

Any idea if you want to keep it or flip it yet?

 

Well I'm back, just came from a week long vacation and this week has been mostly working on the house and prepping some flip cars I just acquired on my vacation on Estes Park Colorado.

So I decided to keep the truck, not because I need it but because it's going to serve one purpose and that purpose is going to be towing cars, my Mule is more than capable for this kind of task but don't want to work her hard no more, besides she will make a great back up if this new to me truck decides to take a dump.

Next step im taking is to installed the up pipes and installed a new turbo wheel, then replace the front sway bar links, these things look new but seem they are for the wrong application, nut bottoms out before snugging the traction bar. Need to buy a driver side door locking mechanism this one took a caca when I closed the door too "hard". Need to replace all the vac hoses going to the hubs, and grease the brake slide pins

Tires look great, I just installed the locking hubs up front one of them was grinding so bought 2 of them, 4x4 works great just did all fluids minus the diffs, those are next BTW.

I'll update more soon, just posted this to those curious to see what the verdict was with this old beast.

 

One thing I almost forgot for all you suffering from OCD, interior is getting detailed once all the work is done, I'm even thinking of doing custom upholstery like my OBS in the future. I might end up going with the KR style again on this truck.