Woot! "New" tires for my camo pickup!

[Rudz]

hmm

that 93 f150 outa be real nice..hieght and power....bwhahaaha

[PyRo]

Oh well the shackle bushings being on backorder is giving me some time to work on the stroke.

Really now?

[PyRo]

Why not restore the 69? It doesn't look like it would take much. The body seems to be pretty rust-free. Change the grill, sand it down & spray some single stage paint on it. Clean off under neath & paint under there (probably the most time consumeing part). Paint the metal around the bed, take a belt sander to the wood and throw some stain on it. Then do what you have to do on the interior. All those things could be done a little bit at a time to give you a nice truck.

[TheAngryDrunkenRussian]

just out of curoisity size engine you got in you powerstroke. I got 3 7.3L F350, superduty/450, and a 550, Sorry I love that power house you can't kill it.

[ntn4502]

I assume you don't take too kindly to city folk?

[billybob_81067]

Why not restore the 69? It doesn't look like it would take much. The body seems to be pretty rust-free. Change the grill, sand it down & spray some single stage paint on it. Clean off under neath & paint under there (probably the most time consumeing part). Paint the metal around the bed, take a belt sander to the wood and throw some stain on it. Then do what you have to do on the interior. All those things could be done a little bit at a time to give you a nice truck.

That flat camo paint job is hiding a LOT of dings and crunches in that poor old pickup, and some cab rot in the rear cab corners. It belonged to one of my friends and him and his two brothers learned to drive around the farm with it which explains the crunches. I did do a bit of body work on it... just took off all the crappy chrome trim that was on it and welded up the holes. Anyways I need a good old beater pickup to take all the crap while I keep my others in nice shape.

[billybob_81067]

just out of curoisity size engine you got in you powerstroke. I got 3 7.3L F350, superduty/450, and a 550, Sorry I love that power house you can't kill it.

Yeah it's got the 7.3 Liter, direct injection, turbocharged engine in it. I love it too... and I'm going to love it even more when I get some bigger injectors for it!

ntn4502, I don't mind city folk, just a few of the bad apples give the rest of you a bad name.

[Muzikman]

I hate to break it to you. 285/65R16's are not 33's, they are 30.5x11.2x16. 285/75R16's are 33's (32.8x11.2x16).

BTW, I got new tires too on Saturday.



They are BFG MT 285/75R16's

[Muzikman]

a 93 F-150 that I've lifted and fabbed up a 3/4 ton dana 60 with disks under the rear and a heavy duty 3/4 ton Dana 44 up front. I've got a stroker kit for the 351W to build it into a 408, but there's just not enough time in world right now. (stupid night-time, sleep, and eating, :P) Anyways it will get a set of 38" tires when it's all said and done.

Why a D44 and not a D60 up front?

[kosmo]

Muz, all you need now is a roof mounted .50 cal and youre set.

[BeaverEater]

come on muz, if your gonna show off new tires, atleast get some mud on them.

[MarkM]

I have to ask since we don't have that many pickups over here...what is bedliner, it looks like what we call stone chip, a paint finsh that is often put on the bottom of the sills and front valance to stop chips from stones.
Mind you I have seen in the states lots of strange things we don't have here, the one thing I keep thinking about bringing home is the plastic coating dip for hand tools (and anything else that you might want plastic coated)

[Muzikman]

come on muz, if your gonna show off new tires, atleast get some mud on them.

I'll have pics this Saturday. They have not seen mud yet, but to hold you over until then.

Here is a little mud.

[Muzikman]

I have to ask since we don't have that many pickups over here...what is bedliner, it looks like what we call stone chip, a paint finsh that is often put on the bottom of the sills and front valance to stop chips from stones.
Mind you I have seen in the states lots of strange things we don't have here, the one thing I keep thinking about bringing home is the plastic coating dip for hand tools (and anything else that you might want plastic coated)

Mark, Bed liner is a polyurethane with rubber bits in it that can be either sprayed on or rolled on. There are a lot of DIY bed liners and there are a few professionaly applied liners. they prevent the back of your pickup bed from getting scratched and such as you put stuff in it. Before you had plastic insert liners for truck beds, but those trapped water between the plastic and the metal bed and caused rust.

If you want, I can ship you over some Plasti Grip.

EDIT: Oh, and the front bumper and lower part of my doors on my Xterra are bed lined. I used Herculiner brand.

[MarkM]

Mark, Bed liner is a polyurethane with rubber bits in it that can be either sprayed on or rolled on. There are a lot of DIY bed liners and there are a few professionaly applied liners. they prevent the back of your pickup bed from getting scratched and such as you put stuff in it. Before you had plastic insert liners for truck beds, but those trapped water between the plastic and the metal bed and caused rust.

If you want, I can ship you over some Plasti Grip.

EDIT: Oh, and the front bumper and lower part of my doors on my Xterra are bed lined. I used Herculiner brand.

Ah ok. It was sort of what I thought it was, since we don't use/have it I wasn't sure.
The Plasti-Grip stuff I don't really have a use for directly. I do have a lot of old pliers and vice grips could use it but they don't get used frequently enought to warrant the use of Plasti-Grip...what I did have in mind for using it on was a pair of rear lens protector frames I have but I really want a smooth plastic finish (like they originally had) but I will probably eventually just get them powder coated instead.