New Guy From NY

[asphaltwarrior1]

Hello everyone, great site here been poring over the pages and threads for about two weeks now. I recently acquired a 99 Sport 4x4 . I did a Home built shackle lift and . torsiontwist and have been deciding on tires come spring time. She's a good running truck with a new motor and trans, all new brakes and rotors, all new axles up front as well as all new ball joints and tie rods. I scored it for 1,00 bucks. I needed to replace my 2003 Hyundai Elantra GT that met it's demise with a 8 point 200lb plus buck two weeks ago lol I'll link up some pics from home puter later if I don't sleep all day . Working the Graveyard shift

 

[asphaltwarrior1]

I plan to run 265/75/16 Goodyear Wrangler Trailmark's. I wont be doing any major off roading so no need for an aggressive tire right.lol Looking forward to Explorering the site more ( Pun intended lol ) and getting some tips and tricks to make my Ex better ! No pun intended there lol

 

[Mike65]

asphaltwarrior, welcome to the forum. We too have a 99 Sport 4X4 which is going to be my wife's DD. I just finished repairing both rocker panels that were rotted out. Here is a pic of our Sport with our other 2 Fords.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum!

 

[asphaltwarrior1]

After the shackle and torsion twist

 

[asphaltwarrior1]

She desperately needs new rockers and part of the wheel well attached to the rocker. Spring will get some lovin for her lol

 

[Mike65]

The pass side rocker panel was not to bad about a 12" section of the rear part of the rocker & a small spot of the lower quarter panel, but the drivers side was very bad about 1/2 of the rocker panel was gone from about the center of the rocker panel back to the rear wheel opening & the lower section of the quarter panel. I bought the "slip on" rocker patch pieces & cut from them to repair & welded them in, a light coat of filler, primer & paint.
Pass side before;

pass side after;

drivers side before;

drivers side after;