welcome to wacky Wednesday's, where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mod,s and here's this week's winner what's up Scotty thanks for giving me
the opportunity to show you my 1996 Ford f-150, this truck has been a project of
me and my dad's for a couple years now and this is a kind of what we've
come up with, so I'll give you guys a little bit of rundown on what we've done
and a couple things that I still I'm going to do in the future, one of the
main things that we have done to this truck over the last couple years is we
put a six-inch suspension lift in it and a three-inch body lift, when I originally
bought this truck it already had a six inch suspension lift in it, but I'm
assuming it had been put in somewhere in the early 2000s because
everything was pretty much going bad, the springs were going bad, the shocks were not
all that great, I actually lost a couple Leafs out of the leaf pack on the
passenger side when I was going down the road, so that was kind of the wake-up
call for me that something needed to be done and the suspension needed to be
redone, when I first bought this truck a couple years back it had 49,000 miles on
it which is pretty low for the time for especially how old the truck is
being about 20 years old currently it has 67,000 on it, one of the
things that we did to this truck was this bedliner paint job and we chose
orange for the color, I really like the bedliner paint job because it does see
off-road kind of often, before when we didn't have the bedliner paint job on it,
I would have scratches all down my clear coat and with the bedliner paint job it
really keeps it looking pretty much as good as day one, it's been on here for
about a year and a half now and I mean I don't really have any major complaints
about it, it still looks pretty much as good as when I first laid it on there, so
being where we are up in the Northeast we have a lot of snow and actually it
snowed this morning also, which tends to make stuff especially when they because
they use salt on the roads, it makes cars rust out a lot, so this thing had its
fair share of rust issues before we got to it, and that's also why
we kind of ended up repainting the truck I had the choice to either repaint the
truck in the color that it was when I bought it or to change the color
and I ended up changing the color because when I first bought the truck,
the truck was pink and I keep this as a souvenir just to show people that the truck
was pink when I bought it the hood they actually did a really good job
when they painted this truck, because it was everywhere, under the hood,
in the door jambs under the bed, actually you know it's
still under the bed, one of the other things I've done to this truck is this
ranch hand bumper on the front here, I really wanted something that was going
to protect the front end of my truck if I were to hit something off-road or hit
a deer because I've hit a couple deer out here there's a lot of deer
up in this part of the woods here, yeah I wanted something that was going to
protect the front of my truck since I had put all this work into it and I
thankfully haven't hit a deer with it yet but someday I might and I'll let you
guys know if it holds up, so one of the next things that I'm going to be doing
to this truck is completely ditching the six-inch suspension lift that I have in
it now, taking these axles out and tossing them and putting in 2005 Super
Duty f-350 axles front and rear in this truck, so that is going to be a very big
project and it shouldn't be all that hard but it is definitely going to be
one of the bigger projects, under the hood of this truck we have the forward
5.8 351 Windsor and it's been really good to me, it has pretty low miles on it
but it's been it's been really good to me I haven't actually had to do anything
to it in the last couple of years that I've owned the truck, it's completely
bone stock I kind of am going to keep it that way for a while, unless something
goes bad on it then I'll probably upgrade it a little bit, for the time
being it's doing perfectly good perfectly good job at turning these 38
inch tires, so I really can't complain also under here was all pink when I
first bought the drug too, so we painted this orange instead of doing bed liner
and in the door jambs we also painted that orange instead of doing the bed
liner to keep, it kind of saves a little bit of weight and it's
just a lot easier to paint the door and instead of having the bed liner in
the door jambs, it keeps the gaps small so we don't have any rubbing issues and
stuff like that, so that's pretty much what we have into the truck so far, there's a
lot of more stuff that is going to come in the near future here, but that's
production what I've got for you guys today
thank you again Scotty for letting me show you guys my f-150 year, if any you
guys are wanting to see more of this truck and when we do the axle swaps and
stuff my youtube channel is bear-bait01 so alright guys thank you all
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