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i got all the door weather striping in and the carpet somewhat in. tomarow im going to spray a last coat of primer on the bed and them spray paint on the bed on wednesday

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got the bed painted today !! but this websight wont lem me upload any pics

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I had the same trouble with pics. If you have HP image zone or some like that change the image size to make it smaller and that will make the file size smaller also. I had to many pixels so that made the file size to big to download.

Nice truck!

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Hey man, here are those pics. We have state testing this week so I forgot about it yesterday, sorry man! Wicked truck, lovethe color, too!!!!
:metal::metal::metal::metal:

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Nice truck looks real good
I just read threw this whole build how long did it take you from start to what u have now?

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bcbasketball11, hey thanks alot.

showss12, i got the truck the summer right after 8th grade, and now im just finishing up my senior year in high school, so about 4 years

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wow! I'm impressed!!! gotta get my sons a couple of trucks to get started on, they are 8 and 12, hope they will be as far along as you are when they reach their senior year! keep up the good work!!

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NO problem man!! that's what this board is all about :metal:

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your build is really inspiring it makes me want to go out and start working on my truck right now

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Hows about installing that latch for your tailgate behind the bedpost(right where you installed it the first time but inside it) then cut a square out in that post so you can push the button, but you wont be able to see the hardware at all.

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wow i love that idea. i wish i thought of that before i painted.

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can you not have them touch it up? Im actually considering doing this on my truck now lol.

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well i did all the paint myself so i could probly find a way.

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so today i got the back of my doors, back of the tailgate and fenders and th bottom of the hood painted. tomarow i will be painting the outside of all the parts.

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here are some pics from before i painted the backs of everything.

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Truck is looking good keep up the hard work!

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i really like that orange color, and the paint and body work is turning out great! i wish my highschool had that kind of facility where i could have done that.

is this your first experiance with body work? your doing great if it is!

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thanks for the kind words !!! and yes this is my first time with body work and paint.

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i got the rest of the painting done on the front clip and doors today!!!

now all that is left to paint in my center console.

i will try to post some pics friday unless someone is willing to let me email them some to post before then.

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You can email me pics whenever you need some posted man.

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i got my new wheels and tires on today!!! they are 20" ultra 296 with toyo proxes st 275/40/20 tires

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here are the new wheels.
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/IMG_2019.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/IMG_2022.jpg

and this is a photoshop of what the stance should look like

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...IMG_2019-1.jpg

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did you paint it on your own and if you did what was you overall price of painting the whole truck with all the products just a estimate

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yes i painted it myself, overall i would say it cost about $800 (thats paint and primer )

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ok thanks and did you have any experience before