OK, I'm slow, but here's my new favorite toy in all its glory. Details below.







Functional:
- 2.25" front leveling kit (ReadyLift)
- 1" taller rear blocks (ReadyLift)
- 285/70R17 BFG Rugged Terrain T/A tires on stock 17x7.5 alloys
- Fold-a-Cover folding hard tonneau
- Line-x over the rails
- bug shield
- vent visors
- side steps (mandatory, my wife is five-foot-nothing)
- fender flares
- mud flaps
- rear under-seat storage bin
- Dura-Shield on front bumper and outside mirrors

Appearance:
- removed tailgate bowtie and ugly green Flex-fuel logo, 4x4 fender decals
- painted front bowtie body silver

Advertising (because I'm president of a veterans association and always looking for potential recruits):
- USAF art on the bug shield
- USAF emblems on rear fenders
- bumper stickers in back window

 

nice truck, i like the air force logo on the back of the bed!

 

Thanks, I got those from an outfit that makes a million different military decals - Military Graphics.

 

Nice to finally see the truck looks good! Not feeling the chrome fender lips but the rest goes together pretty well. What's the neatest way to go about removing those decals and badges?

 

Thanks! I do know what you mean about the lips, the truck would look nicer without them - but they're functional. I hate the rock chips I get while driving old gravel logging roads in the mountains during hunting season. I got these stainless steel ones because they're pretty narrow, and they don't contrast with the silver body as much as the black ones would have. The paint-able ones I found were all too wide.

I didn't do the decals and badges myself. I've seen some threads here about how to do that and it sounded simple, but I wasn't going to give myself on-the-job training on a brand new truck. My favorite body shop did it fast and right, for not too much money.

 

Looks good, but should be Army ! I am a recruiter, and it is no fun. Then again we don't get bad *** trucks like that to advertise!

 

pics of said wife?

 

What wife?

 

Phil's five-foot-nothing wife lol

 

+1

So you served in Vietnam???