Mustang's F150 thread - It's got little glowy things on the roof! :D

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I found myself thinking that the fitment sucked and was totally not flush at all.

Then I thought about what I was looking at.
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My tires stick out from the bottoms of my fenders, and are about 1/2 inch inside the tops of the wheel arches. I'd need aftermarket wheels to push them out there. The ones I have are just the stock steel wheels that the base models from my year came with, which I'm gonna paint.
 
Nice new tires. My Toyo AT's are so worn out! I really need to get them replaced. It doesn't help that some neighborhood kid thought it would be cool to slash the front right. He failed, but you can see where he tried.
 
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Wow, some people just don't deserve to live. I'm hoping to god mine don't have that happen?
 
Final tire update: They're on, and the wheels are black, with chrome center caps. It's real clean lookin'!

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And with my buddy's Silverado. They are now flat black wheel brethren
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Excuse his bumper, he got backed into and it's gettin' fixed tomorrow
 
Gotta find someplace to do it first... But I'm definately looking. I found these tires are crap in the sugar sand I used to run, they just dig in as opposed to my old bald street tires that could "float"
 
Today, I completed a lift of the optical illusion variety. I took off the front valance that was just barely hanging on for life, and gained 2.5 inches of ground clearance in the front before the tires. Also I now have the bottom of the radiator support showing slightly, and you can see the I-Beams, plus a lot more of the tires, all from the front. Looks a lot more 4x4 from the right angle, and yet no different from others

No, there is no lost internal component protection. The valance in it's time may have protected the truck from rocks, but it was flapping in the breeze until now.
 
mustangGT90210
Final tire update: They're on, and the wheels are black, with chrome center caps. It's real clean lookin'!

Before:
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After:
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And with my buddy's Silverado. They are now flat black wheel brethren
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Excuse his bumper, he got backed into and it's gettin' fixed tomorrow
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Looking good man! def a big improvement over the old wheel/tire set up.

btw a kid I went to high school with drove an identical silverado as your friend... with the same damage as well lmao
 
Thanks! Those wheels and tires completely transformed the look of the truck in my eyes, and now compliments I get on her have gone from "that looks nice for a '91" to "hey! nice lookin' truck!"

Chevy damage :lol: It's gonna cost insurance (the other guys who hit him) a grand to put a new bumper on there. $750 for the bumper, $250 for labor. It's held on by like 6 bolts! That's about $40 per bolt, where do I sign up?!
 
Rims and tires look good! What's next on the agenda?

And you really should get some new headlight housings, I have to imagine that ones that faded and cloudy it's light trying to shine a flashlight through a milk bottle at night. :p
 
Next on the agenda: Rear brakes, transmission fluid/filter change, tune up. Then! Or maybe sometime in the middle there, I'm getting so HD shocks with overload springs to level the truck out.

And amazingly, my headlights are great still! They don't look the best, clearly(no pun intended :lol:) but they still shine GREAT! They're like huge floodlights out the front, I see everything!
 
mustangGT90210
After my search starting in March '08, first test drive of a Prelude in May '08, subsequently followed by numerous Mustangs, Camaros, Trans Ams, and Mark VIIs, I've finally found it. My first car. I'm so freaking happy!!!!!!

1991 F150 XLT Lariat
300 I6
Automatic
Long Bed
140k miles
Straight Pipes

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So overall, this is a great, old truck. I need to track down what's up with the tach, as it doesn't work, just hangs at 3k rpm, get the float in the gas tank checked out, it fluctuates from working to not working, change the oil and coolant, then further down the road get it some new tires and an alignment. And then the sound system needs help too... I'll keep this updated as I progress :D

First order of business: Get the title signed over to me and bring her across town, back to my house.


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http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ARE-405887640/ (Bullitts)
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ARE-1358876/?image=large (Torqlite)
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-G803010/ (Billet Grille)
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Nice! I have a '99 Expedition myself...............not drivable, though. :({Long story, please don't ask.}
 
The person I bought my truck from works with my mom at the hospital. Well today there's a little marketplace I'm helping my mom with to sell her photographs and Judy, the PO, dropped by. I had to show her how the truck was still doing, first words out of her mouth were "Jim would be proud." Jim was her husband and this was his truck. He died last summer from cancer and I got the truck because seeing the truck sitting in front of her house just brought bad memories. I'm glad she approves of what I've done :)
 
Ok, had a hard freeze last night, and now my speedometer is cold...

Meaning, this thing shakes and moves around like no other. I pulled out of my driveway normal and by the time I was 4 houses down, it said I was going 45, but I was really only going 25, hadn't even hit 2nd gear yet. Going down SR64 at 60mph, I had the needle straight buried, like, on the D in PRND21

This after noon while driving home, it's settled a little bit... under 25 it works fine, and over 65 it's good. Anywhere in between is a jumpy, very wrong reading mess. I have some video (sadly not of the pegged needle lol) that I'll get up later.

Any ideas what it is? I'm hoping my speedo cable isn't dead, maybe it's just a little gear somewhere that had some teeth crack off? (got down to 28 last night, south of tampa Florida for god's sake)
 
:lol: @ driving on slick roads. I drove to work this morning on a semi-slick roads and still did 70 on the freeway. But then again people in Florida don't function in temps lower then 50 right? :p
 
Joey D
:lol: @ driving on slick roads. I drove to work this morning on a semi-slick roads and still did 70 on the freeway. But then again people in Florida don't function in temps lower then 50 right? :p
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Ha. Ha. Ha. :lol:

The roads were fine, nice and dry. It was my speedometer messing up! (no tires were spinning either) I'd show you video of this gauge literally bouncing everywhere but I can't get it off my phone right now
 
Christ! I don't know what happened there...is it a mechanical or electronic speedo?
 
Joey D
:lol: @ driving on slick roads. I drove to work this morning on a semi-slick roads and still did 70 on the freeway. But then again people in Florida don't function in temps lower then 50 right? :p
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And I'm sure people in the north think the world is about to end when it get's above 90 in the summer.:lol:
 
Jim Prower
Christ! I don't know what happened there...is it a mechanical or electronic speedo?
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It's mechanical. And it's back to normal now. I'm thinking it was just froze up, my truck has been out of the cold for so long it got the shivers haha.

On the second day the needle was great under 25 and over 65, and 3rd day it was back to normal, and has stayed that way
astrosdude91
And I'm sure people in the north think the world is about to end when it get's above 90 in the summer.:lol:
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JCE
Loving the new wheels and tires. :D
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Thanks! 👍
nitrorustler41
nice flex shots

man i just put a locker in my rear axle, you should look into it, i never even need 4x4 anymore, it really gives you a ton more traction
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I've got limited slip in the back, and it still works! :sly:

I can't even say what if I'd need 4x4 or not now, haven't been able to test my new tires out yet, 'cause it straight up does not rain in this state after the month of september
 
So I need new shocks... :lol:

Front and rear is what I'd like to do, not just one half at a time. I've heard good things about Bilstein 5100s for trucks, but I really know nothing about these things. And any gain is ride height is a plus! Seeing as mine are pretty dead, I'd imagine I'd gain a little.

And I need head lights now too. What bulbs would you guys recommend? I want really bright ones that are either pure white or with a slight blue tinge. I've also never done anything with lights...

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There will be no ride height increase from changing shocks. Shocks only dampen spring movement. In order to increase ride height, you would need new springs. the Bilstein 5100's are overkill for your application IMHO. My buddy had some of the higher end Ranchos on his bronco, and were pretty stiff if that is what your looking for.

the new NAPA Reflex shocks are pretty awesome thats what my buddy put on his Cummins. they have auto adjusting valving that makes em great in different road and offroad conditions.
 
I'm not looking for a harsh ride. Just stockish but with much better damping than what my current dead shocks have haha. Now, if I buy shocks now, will they still be ok after I level the truck out?
 

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