2004 Ford F150 Prerunner! Las Vegas daily driver!

Awesome build thread man

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Thank you! I hope people enjoy it! or get ideas etc.

Well all the "chrome" accents were blacked out at thus point so I went ahead and sanded the crap out of those wheels I bought and sprayed those black as well. lol, actually looked good. Kept the chrome center cap for a while but eventually took them off. Rocked some company logos for a little also. .

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Nice job

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i want it

 

Lol thank you. Trying to remember everything in order and find pictures.

I did little stuff here and there at this point. Got bullet caps for my valve stems and locks. Sound system. Added power locks and an alarm. But I got tired of the grey fenders but I didn't wanna fish out the cash for paint yet because I still wasn't sure which direction I was going to go in the future. After a little research I found out they made spray cans to paint match the paint code. Picked some up for super cheap and sprayed them lol let them dry in my room with a heater.


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Once I was here I started doing a little offroading. meeting some more local off roaders here and there, loving every minute of the truck and the suspension. Lol then something happened. I was driving along a pretty smooth dirt road on the way to a trail and snap... My drivers side went slamming to the floor and truck was like a crashing plane, got it to stop and luckily it didn't happen in a bad place but the lower balljoint(the only ball joint my kit keeps) snapped. Anyways got it fixed out there with an AutoZone duralast balljoint to get it home. Once it was home I went to the internet to look up this problem and then outside to tear down the front end n find what caused the stud to sheer in half. I definitely did not want this to happen again at any high speeds or on the roads etc. also around this time I took the bed off to clean up some mud from when I first got the truck.

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Once I was here I started doing a little offroading. meeting some more local off roaders here and there, loving every minute of the truck and the suspension. Lol then something happened. I was driving along a pretty smooth dirt road on the way to a trail and snap... My drivers side went slamming to the floor and truck was like a crashing plane, got it to stop and luckily it didn't happen in a bad place but the lower balljoint(the only ball joint my kit keeps) snapped. Anyways got it fixed out there with an AutoZone duralast balljoint to get it home. Once it was home I went to the internet to look up this problem and then outside to tear down the front end n find what caused the stud to sheer in half. I definitely did not want this to happen again at any high speeds or on the roads etc. also around this time I took the bed off to clean up some mud from when I first got the truck.

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After that happened I went and first off bought some brand new moog balljoints. They are supposed to be heavy duty. Got the passengers side swapped out and then the drivers side I had done issues seating it properly. Long story short the spindle opening was messed up and I took it to a local fabrication shop called mcm fab and design and they took care of it and re tapered the spindle and seated in that balljoint. Now with those aftermarket balljoints I felt better. Since I had the front end apart I went ahead and cleaned and re lubed all the steering and uniball and heims.

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After all that I went ahead and started hitting the dirt here and there again and realized my stock rear end sucked. Not only that but my rear tires kept bottoming out and hitting the bedsides they didn't clear. So I talked with a guy in town and I got the "pulled bedsides" treatment. its where you cut a line in the inner fender well and make a gap and actually pull the bedsides out then put a bracket to hold it separated. At the same time I decided to ditch my tow package and also the rear bumper in future plans for a tubed rear bumper. Here are pics if the pulled bedsides.

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Wanted to start going for a clean overall look so I decided to take the truck for a rear tubed bumper. As soon as it was back I painters that black as well and mounted my license plate on there and also got the bedsides cut at an angle


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