Just a few update pics, pressure washed the frame and motor, changed the seats and door panels, removed the shackles(new ones on order), removed the bed on number 15.

 

well do you have any bed that are in decent shape with or with out flares

 

Not really, the white bed in the picture was rolled on the drivers side, The gold truck has a dent that covers the whole front half and a second dent on the drivers side and I still have the white bed I sent you pictures of before with dents on both side(standing in the driveway) I'm still not sure which bed I'm going to fix when I rebuild the white truck.

 

nice progress. once that interior gets cleaned up she will look pretty good. glad too see i'm not the only one bugging john about a truck bed. lol

 

John you should put my Mazda bed on it...lol....have a fake STX.

 

Yeah The interior is going to clean up and look nice. I've actually thought about buying a bed myself...lol


Yeah that would be cool but I don't want to spend more that I have to on it.

 

Where are you going to buy this bed from? I'm pretty sure you have every bed in a 200mi radius.



Stephen do you really want to get rid of your mazda bed?

 

lol just 4 Cody...
Update rear shackles! Heres a link to a how to. https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...s-shakles.html

 

I actually just got done reading your how to. Its pretty nice that they have a whole kit to replace the hangers and shackles.

 

Yeah makes it easier than going after parts...lol

 

looks nice and pretty now the rest of the frame needs paint. Not a bad price either.

 

It was 102.25 shipped from ebay for both sides

 

Not a whole lot of progress today but I changed out a broken spring and started cleaning up the frame.

 

Cleaning up the frame, pshhhh. No one sees the frame anyways. lol

 

Yeah but I saw it lol

 

Man it must be tough living in areas like that were rust is such a problem. I could go the next 10 years not washing my 04 and it wouldn't have rust on it the way that frame does.

 

yeah thats why they call it the rust belt

 

looks like all thats left is paint. and its ready.

 

I came home and unwrapped the truck and pulled it ouside for a few pics. It turned out ok with a few spots/imperfections but I'm pretty sure most will buff out. As usual my camera sucks but heres a few pics.

 

I kinda like it I wanna see it in person.

 

Looks damn good John. I am always impressed with your work.

 

Thanks man, It will look even better once its reassembled

 

Nice work.

You painted that in the garage?

What paint did you use and did you build a spray booth or?


My suggestion is you need to pinstripe it now. It helps the eye transition better from color to color. Black would look great.

 

Looks good, but I dunno if I am a fan of the stripes.

 

I was actually going to do some 1/8' pinstripes in it but I didn't have any tape so I just went for it. It was sunday evening when I painted it and no place was open.

Yeah the stripes don't look exactly as I pictured them but the truck looked plain and needed something.