New custom 06+ tails courtesy of Pedro. Excuse the crooked bumper. I also scored a butt load of led's from him too (brake lights, blinkers, bed lights, third brake light and plate lights). i'll take pics when it's dark.

 

Always nice to have someone close with a modded Ranger who's deciding to sell. Thats how I got my FX4 LVL 2 shifter, subs and tuner.

You should take his 06+ color matched side mirrors too

 

Already made a set of new tails for myself lol they'll be on next week. Keeping the truck for now to haul the new toy around

 

yea it worked out nice....until one of my leds shorted and melted inside the new tail light. now one of them is slightly burnt colored...pedro i may need to to mod another one for me lol

 

the chances of that happening are very slim but I may be able to do it at some point lol

 

Went wheeling and snapped a few pics

 

dude I love your truck. the wheels are sick with those tires.

 

Looks good! i like how well you take care of it!

 

thanks man :) I'm really happy with the wheel/tire combo too. so far they are holding up great. the a/t's have done fine in everything i've thrown at them.

haha thanks, i try and keep it looking nice. gotta keep up with it since it's an 02 and the weather takes a toll. I'm getting some body work done soon, maybe some painting done too.

 

Truck looks.

 

Did a few things to the truck recently...

Got a bed matt and repainted the bed liner



Got an MBRP catback exhaust



replaced the three bulbs in my dome light with cool white leds as well as my glove box





And the most major thing I had done was the body work. My rear quarter panels were rusting out so i got them redone and got my passenger side rear door completely replaced because of the severe rust damage.





There is a slight difference in the color in the back but all in all I am very happy with it.

oh yea, I'm lifting it up more! I got 2 inch aal for the rear and camber kits for the front to help with the alignment after i crank the tbars some more.

 

I never got around to posting any pics but here is a recent pic after the 2 inch add a leaf and torsion bars cranked a bit more. I also replaced the shocks with longer ranchos

 

Nice build. So this is the guy Pedro shows pics of his with! lol. I dig the exhaust too. And DAMN YOU with those taillights. lol.


Yeah that Bed Armor CRAP is CRAP. It's like black paint with rubbery specs scattered about....not building up texture. I only tried it 'cause it was $30 after rebates and discounts. I covered mine up with Herculiner this summer and I'm VERY pleased with the results.

 

Nice truck bud. Nice nickname too- don't run into fellow wingmen too often. And I see you're a Masshole too. Cool!

 

That's me alright haha. thanks I appreciate it man. Yea that bed armor sucks ***. I had to put so many coats on and spray a few layers of black spray bomb for it to last. I'm paranoid though so I also got a bed mat too. And I snagged those tails so fast it wasn't even funny. love em.

Thanks! massholes ftw.

 

So I finally got around to installing my subwoofer. The problem was, it became much more of a project than i anticipated. So I started with a kicker 10 inch subwoofer and enclosure that was kinda big. My original vision was to somehow mount a low profile sub box to the back wall. After realizing that was a lost cause I came up with this shelf idea.


You can see here after the jump seat was taken out, the floor is exposed and isn't level. Oh and I had to cut my rear cupholder jack cover to fit the sub.


THE SHELF WAS BORN





I screwed both the amp and sub into the shelf using the brackets that they supplied.

 

i painted 2 cars like that one with the 97 cent ones from walmart and then the next the 3-4 doller one from walmart i was more in pressed with the 3-4 doller ones one can covered about 5times what the 97cent ones did

 

love your truck man i wish mine was 4 wheel drive i just got a little gas saver work truck

 

the ones from home depot are made in the same warehouse as rustoleum. I'll stick with those and not walmart ones.

 

Started my new front end project the other day with Pedro.



phase one: fit the new bumper, install new headlights and paint and install new grill. The new valence and bumper still need paint at this point but we ran out of daylight.



Phase two: Paint valence satin black with Krylon Fusion paint (3 coats), color match paint the new bumper (3 coats red, 4 coats clear).




All put back together.



had to paint my running boards because my new bumper made how faded they really were stand out lol.



All cleaned up.

 

Just an update on the latest mods...


Trail Gear 78" Sliders




New RCI front skid (old one was crushed in the accident)