Thanks for reminding me. I need to do that.

 

xD no problem.... i think im going to take that damn thing off my tailgate and put it on ebay for $300 lol new ones cost $700 and thats with the black bar across it

i just hope i dont break anything on it when i take it off lol

any opinions on this

 

I like that tail gate panel. I think it looks awesome. There are holes through the tailgate and it will like crap with out it. There are 6-8 torx head screws through the tailgate and 2 nuts on each side of the tail gate.

Painting the wiper arms and things like that works well most of the time. I would not recommend painting the plastic door handles. With all the contaminants in the plastic and the fact the it is always getting touched, the paint will rub and flake off.

For the wiper arms I would use a satin or semigloss paint.

 

lol i already painted the wiper arms a long time ago and they are gloss black and so are my handles now... if the paint comes off oh well... ill paint them again

^.^

and i was kidding about the tail gate panel... but u can bet ur sweet @$$ that if some one offered me $300 for it id rip their arm off lol

i have to take it off and see what the problem is with the middle of it because its loose...

 

Thanks, I like yours as well. Its funny though, I am the exact opposite, I'm a Washingtonian that transplanted to Oregon. Bought my truck in The Dalles, OR after I rolled my '90 (such a sad day).. Came to La Grande for college, and just liked it too much to leave. I enjoy it as well, there's a ton of good people with a lot of information to share. See you out there!

 

Freakin wiper arms wont come off..

I have "hammered black" "high heat black" and "auto flat black" sitting in my garage.. Ill have to try them all

 

did u raise them then pull the little clip out

 

Painted the front grill balck and the headlight doors as well. Also taking some new parts off a donor truck from work that their scrapping so cant wait to see what I can swap for mine.

 

lol omfg.... well turns out it isnt the original tailgate... i took the panel off

only 4 nuts 2 on each side... and i looked and saw in big indented letters FORD and then i saw the poorly cut holes for the thing in the middle to stick threw for the 2 screws in the middle that arent there....

oh well at least they painted it and put the panel on straight.... i guess ill leave it on there...

k now im off to fixing my door panel

 

nice...lol

 

Amazing the things you find huh....

 

no kidding.. i found out that the guy before me yanked out all of the heater vacum lines and just ran a hardwire to the heater and then yanked that before he sold the truck to me..so my heater runs off a hard wire toggle switch

 

ok here is what i just finished doing.... J B weld takes forever to dry....

and i know the grills are off my speakers...

before pics first...






after....





oh yea the J B weld was for the grills in the door panels because they was sorta knocked out as u can see in the second pic and also the mounting screw hole was broken off too so i re-attached it

 

Yes I did. I wiggled and pulled the hell out of them and they didn't budge.

 

wished i hadnt signed over the title...