I work for a truck upfitter and we do a lot of work for the oilfields in the North Slope of Alaska. They have some pretty good specs they call for when getting a truck ready for -60F cold weather conditions, this was on the easier side of upfits but the 2017 presented a few challanges compared to the old Super Duty..

This unit was replacing a 2012 F-250 6.7 that served well for the company.

Stock truck was a 2017 XLT 6.7 4x4 long bed crew cab with the full camera package, more then the typical basic XL truck that we deal with.

We installed the following:
-Seat covers, saddle blanket front/rear
-Custom breaker box, 100w/150W pad heaters, (2) 60W battery heaters, 1.5A trickle charger with the block heater routed through it
-Husky Liner floor mats
-Custom door straps, these are to keep the doors from hyper extending if they are caught by high winds
-BackRack with (2) work lights and (1) light bar wired to dash switch
-Swapped the Transfer Tank fuel tank between the old truck and new
-Installed luverne grip strut running boards
-long fender mud flaps front/rear
-Custom winter front
-Light bar with the customer supplied lights, triggered by high beams
-Custom out of park alarm, so if the door is opened when the truck is not in park a backup alarm under the dash goes off at 97 DB
-Swapped the Goodyear Duratrac tires from there old 2012 to the 2017

I may be missing a few things, but here are the photos!
















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Nice work.
By custom winter front do you mean made in house and not available retail?
I like the front light bar and assume the truck does not have an adaptive cruise control module as the light bar would block it(?).

 

Did you guys install an auxiliary headlight module to trigger the lightbar off of the high beams or did you just tap into the high beam power wire and run it to a relay for the lightbar?

 

Installed luverne grip strut running boards
I've never seen these before but damn, those are tough! Nice truck.

 

Winter front is custom made by a local upholstery shop, made out of Arctic grade vinyl.

All after market lights are wired to relays, you can't pull from the truck's as it will throw a error code.

We sell the crap out of those running boards.

 

Very nice truck. Thanks for sharing.

What is your source for the battery heaters?

 

I'm well aware they're wired to relays. I'm wondering how the high beams trigger the light bar relays.

 

Looks like a Weatherford truck.

 

What brand is the black light bar up front....not the lights...but the bar that they are mounted to? Thanks.

 

Those look like excellent running boards. I would love some like that.

 

Trigger wire is tapped off the high beam wire at the headlight.

I can confirm it's not a Weatherford truck.

The front light bar - the bar itself is a randy ellis light bar, this WILL fit 1999-2017 and I don't think will interfere with the cruise control on high end trucks.

The rack is Back Rack brand, with (2) maxxima work lights and a customer supplied no-name LED light bar.


The running boards are fantastic and get amazing reviews from customers.

 

Thanks for the referral on the Ellis light bar mounts.
That's a new supplier to me, their products look very stout, some good installation videos on the website also.

Here's a link to their site

Randy Ellis Design

 

I've had the exact same bar on my Excursion for years. good build quality and looks good.

 

Nice work Russ, I like the customers lighting choices. Any idea where I can find the triple row lb on the front?

 

Nice thread. I'm fascinated by Alaska and its extreme weather. I'd love to live there some day.

I see you swapped the entire old-style 18" rim from the old truck. I like that rim style much better than the standard or optional XLT rim you get on the '17 truck.

Appears to be not a badly equipped XLT - fog lights, ESOF, mirror spot lights, etc. Nice truck.

You appear to have done a lot to Alaska-proof the truck. Full grille cover, battery heaters, etc. Personally, I'd expect these trucks with no modifications to start right up after sitting overnight at -50F...so long as they were plugged in. Is that not the case?