Sure looks to me like what I want to do with the wheels on my 04. I think that what I will do if I can find the time is both the rocker panels and the wheels. To me the plain beige trucks need some black on them to look good. I already have a black nose bra from my red 04.

Thanks for the excellent pics!!! Trust a Newfoundlander to find a low cost and straightforward solution to a problem.

We had snow in Saskatoon yesterday so it's coming your way.

 

Black and beige always complement eachother. I think beige vehicles with tint look great.

I am hoping we do see snow here soon but I'm not counting on it... didn't see snow the last couple winters until February, unfortunately. West coast of the island is totally different, which is one of the reasons I have my truck - sledding weekends on the west coast.

 

I have some of those cheap steel chrome wheels for my 91' 250. I painted them with duplicolor. It came out nice, but less than a year later they started to crack and peal. I knew I didn't prep them right. I wire wheeled the crap out of them, but couldn't get a good scuff for the paint to stick to. I would think the aluminum would be much easier. I spent about $60 on paint.

 

I have been trying to buy an early to mid 90's F250 for a long time. They are either a total mess or pristine. I don't have the resources to deal with a mess and the pristine ones nobody is willing to sell. Guess the 04 F150HD will have to do.

I'm going to look into the cost of sandblasting as a way to prep as I'm not the most patient person when it comes to prepping for painting.

 

I have to get some damage repaired on my 06 before I can swap it for the 04. I bought the beige truck because of it being an HD, not because I like beige. I think that I can make it look OK though without spending a ton of money. Thanks for the idea of the tint as I often have things in the cab of my truck (such as pretty expensive guns) which I would sooner have out of sight.

Just checked out the picture of the beige truck for the first time in a while and I have my plan:
1. Dark window tint
2. Black bedliner below the beltline
3. Bushwacker flairs in black
4. And of course the wheels with black bedliner (or professionally done with black powder coat if I get lazy).

Are you a moose hunter?

My friend Andy Winter up in Northern Alberta would often tell me about calling his buddies up in Newfoundland and asking how their moose season was going. The typical answer was, "we got 2 moose and 3 'quiet' ones".

 

A hunter I'm not, although it is pretty big here. I was looking out the window at a moose in my yard a couple hours ago... last thing I'd want to do is shoot it lol. If it doesn't have an engine and you can wrap your legs around it I'm not that interested. Even my truck is more utility than anything else. I still want it to look good but won't spend any real cash on it. The only things I have left to do are the 2.5 front lift and 1.5 rear lift(already ordered), plus a bull bar with driving lights. Right now I've got my sled for winter and bike(CBR1000RR) for summer. I do plan on a quad in the next couple years too(still searching for that money tree lol).

As for tint, I won't drive without it now. All the ricer cars get noticed by the police for it but trucks never get bothered, at least around here they don't. It only cost me fifty bucks to get the driver and passenger windows done. I feel naked without it now and you are right, it helps to conceal what you have inside, especially if you put it on the floor.

I think you will have one real nice looking truck if you complete that list!!
Show some pics when you're done.

 

Just dawned on me that since I no longer have the wife who objects to motorcycles it is time to have one again. My last bike was a 1977 GS750 Suzuki!! Man that's 30 years ago.

Thanks for the encouragement. It's not going to be easy for me to manage 2 trucks with my current situation, but I'll figure it out.

BTW one thing I noticed after I bought the 04 is that the plastic bedliner is marked Ford Racing. Seems to me the last truck that I would buy to race is one with a 163 wheelbase. If I were going to build a race truck it would be the short box regular cab version to keep the weight down.

 

NLfire- Your wheels turned out nicely. Does it say if the Duplicolor bed coating you used on your wheels will work on plastic? I had repainted my bed rails and they have begun to flake a bit and I would like something a bit more protective on them.

 

Go for the powder coat worth it in long run will look like black chrome . Some dealers warrenty it.
You can get do it your self kits and cook in your oven. But cost will be about time with cost and you time . Good luck

 

If I ever manage to work things out so that I can actually get my other truck I think that is the way that I will go. Certainly the option recommended by the wheel guru I talked to. The big issue for me is time.

 

Did you ever take pictures of these on the truck? I think they'd look awesome with just a chrome center cap and the chrome lug nuts. It's the "old school" look I'm trying to put together for my truck but having problems finding the right combination...