Mods have started!

[ericautopart]

It would multiply the damage to whoever he hit or whatever hits him.

Without a brush gaurd a 15mph hit will likley cause no damage. With a brush gaurd your looking at pushing it back into your hood and denting the hood and being stuck w/ a bent brush gaurd. They don't protect your truck from anything, all they do is make everything worse. They do look good especially with lights but you'd need a winch bumper if you want real protection.

 

[jad2411]

I just want it for looks, not planning on crashing lol!

 

[ericautopart]

Hah no, I know I was just explaining my comment before.

 

[jad2411]

I know what you mean, my cousin was an insurance agent and he told me before i got it that in his experience, it would only make things worse in case of a crash, but I still went ahead and bought it, I really like how it looks, and if I crash that's why I have insurance hehe jk, never in my 15 years of driving I've been in a serious crash, just little fender benders not one more than $200 worth of repiars and none was my fault

 

[jad2411]

Needed the back to match better to the front so...

 

[kako]

man i love the air filter ..
i hope i can install it my self .
were did you get it >

 

[jad2411]

I got it @ ebay, not sure if the one for the 4th gen is already available tho', it took me ~30 min to instal it

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

looks good keep up the good work

 

[jad2411]

Thanks Sam!!

 

[turboranger91]

Lookin good, man. Keep it up!

 

[CrazyAlaskan]

Without a brush gaurd a 15mph hit will likley cause no damage. With a brush gaurd your looking at pushing it back into your hood and denting the hood and being stuck w/ a bent brush gaurd. They don't protect your truck from anything, all they do is make everything worse. They do look good especially with lights but you'd need a winch bumper if you want real protection.

Im not trying to bash here but,thats not always true. I had a buddy with a 98 Ford ranger hit a moose going 45 mph and it saved the front end of his truck, only thing that it didnt save was his headlight (hoof and he didnt have the headlight guard) and the hood from where the moose slid up on the hood. yes it destroyed the guard but i have seen many vehicle front ends come out very worse!

Yes a heavy duty bumper is better but I have personally seen one of those grill guards (Not that exact one he has shown here) save the front end of a truck. If I Still lived back up in Alaska I would go over and take pics and post em but I live in texas now so its kinda hard to do that lol.

 

[jad2411]

More mods!!! Took me 6 hours but I think it was worth it!
Trim painted:

Rear bumper painted:

Running boards:

What do you think?

 

[Paraphoe]

I like it a lot, well done. I did the same to my ugly grey 2nd gen trim.

 

[jad2411]

Thanks! I wish I had washed the truck yesterday, to make it look more "complete", today I thought that I'd waste time by washing it, since we have only a few hours of light so I took advantage, didn't have enough time to finish the trim in the rear bumper, and I also didn't do the front bumper, I have that pending for next week...

 

[CrazyAlaskan]

Its looking good man

 

[jad2411]

I got another amp on Friday, put my 4 stock speakers on CL and a guy was trading his amp for 4 6x8's so met up with him and got me a RF Punch 160a2, I installed it yesterday under my middle seat, too bad I didn't do a good enough job, I chose a bad ground (seat bolt) so I have a whine coming from somewhere :

So here's what I did:

On my original 4 ch amp I had all 4 speakers on the front channels and my sub on the rear ones, so I hooked all 4 speakers (1 per channel) and hooked my sub to the "new" amp I adjusted (best as I could) the gain on the speakers (it really made a difference) and the gain and the bass boost on the sub (sound's better on it's own amp, I guess it didn't like sharing LOL).

The good:
*everything sounds louder and better
*each speaker has it's own channel
*I can use the fade and balance

The bad:
*I grounded the new amp poorly (need to change that)
*When I pulled the wires on the rear right speaker to hook it up to it's own channel I pulled too strong and tore it so now it shorts (I'll need to re-wire)

I'm gonna go to my friend's shop for some speaker wire and good quality rca's (I have some 1dll ones now) and have him tune it better for me
I'll post pics later