Yea, the Dole sticker. Classic. About what this thing is worth....$0.39 / lb.
New shocks..........
The fix is in...........
No more stutter bumps making me stutter. The Rancho 5000x did the trick. Almost as good as my '13 F150. The front came up just a hair during driving. No more front end diving. I now know what the throttle does whine turning. Much, much more control at low speeds, during transitions. From stopping to back on the throttle time is much less. Before I guess I was waiting for the suspension to settle down. The part numbers selected had slightly more travel (1/2") then the other 2 sets of the front & rear. All new hardware was included in the front pair.
The yellow is not the school bus "Caterpillar" safety yellow that we all know, but this is the Lemon yellow. Ford called it "sunshine" yellow I believe. I certainly caught my eye when I saw the ad in the faceplant "market place". When I saw the pictures and all that yellow, well. The wife was the first one to mention something. Well heck I said, today you can have any color in a new vehicle as long as it's silver, dark silver, white or black, and oh yea....blue. I'm still not sold at the dark silver bottom color choice, the wheels included. If I went with a red highlight color, it would be a German magnet. "
guten tag mein
fraulein " . Yes, all joking aside, the lemon yellow will work, draw some more attention for sure. The intention with this truck will be a grocery getter, Saturday night cruising, most importantly on any Sunday doing some ad hoc offroading. With others is the safest way to go. So it will be a driver. With a couple more small fixes, she'll be ready for the 2nd stage. But right now I'm still getting to know her.
Things left to do within this first stage:
1) Passenger kick door snap in cover
2) New windshield
3) Interior goodies; nicer center console, overhead, forward console, adjusting the rear door stops & installing new stops to keep from rattling. Some stops installed to help t-shooting of loose door latch.
4) New headlight buckets that are rated for LEDs
5) The front skid plate is missing. Will have to fab something out of aluminum & see how it works. If it fits good, or I get something that extends underneath the front, then I might as well continue it down to the front pig head.
I got the driver's rear door to stop rattling, now for the passenger rear door which is already tight. What I'm using to experiment are rubber feet I purchased at HD. I had to superglue 2 of then on top of each other to reach. Need to see what the auto parts stores around here have onhand once I figure out where & how much is required to keep backpressure against the door when it's closed. Junkyard run!!!
- Doug
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