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Sometimes persistenece pays off!

About a month back I found a guy with an 02 XLT 4x4 he was parting out. I wanted the interior trim to finish my grab handle mod. After telling me to come out the next weekend, he disappears to Mexico for 3 weeks. I just got a call from his kid that I could come and look at the parts.

Long story short he is putting a 55 dodge onto the frame and he stripped everything else. He had crap laying every were and I wasn't even able to find the trim peices. There are a lot of good parts sitting in boxes at his place. BTW it was a manual twin stick so if someone is looking for shifter boots or ***** etc it was all there.

The trip wasn't a total waste as I found something I didn't think I'd every come across, plus he is due back Weds so I am going to call him to find out if he does actually have the parts.

Now onto the pics, its time to play spot the mod.

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nice!
 
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tow hook on the passenger side maybe?
 
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bingo, I would love to get this truck as a parts truck.

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Mmmm.. Rust lmao as I said in the first post, Nice! looks good man!
 
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Nice find man! Go get those boot and shifters, you can probably re-sell them on here for quite a bit of money!
 
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If you have a reciever and a clevis wouldn't that be better? No?
 
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Im with zach...
 
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Yes receiver and d ring is better than pulling on one side of the frame with and open loop if you ask me. But if you got free stuff you can't complain.
 
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Originally Posted by brianjwilson
Yes receiver and d ring is better than pulling on one side of the frame with and open loop if you ask me. But if you got free stuff you can't complain.
I wasn't knocking it but he has a hitch and wondered why he wouldn't use that instead of the FX4 rear tow hook. I think it would be safer for both parties to use a clevis.
 
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It likely would be safer. I don t have a clevis for the back. For a light stuck it would ok. Plus you can add a tow rope and pull a tobbogan anround the fields with it. lol.

Plus I am basically turning my truck into an XLT Edge so any little extra that they had on them I'll put on If I can find it.
 
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