What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Props for a different and original location for the door flags.

 

Thanks. That's where they are on my brother's Roush f150 and I liked the look so I ripped it off. lol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoKfB18yxts

 

Found one of the sporadic clunks in my front end... it was a golf ball left in the center console.

Suspension is still completely boned but at least I "fixed" one issue...

 

need some opinions. I have sliders coming tomorrow. They are bare metal because I didn't want to pay $150 extra for powder coat for it just to be scratched all to hell. Should I just use normal spray paint or like a flex seal/bedliner spray for some texture?

 

I found one diagram that says #6 screw x 22mm but there’s no way that’s correct right? I know they’d be easy to find if I could just track down the right size and length.

It’s crazy how many tabs, clips, and screws I’ve lost over the years and just replaced with whatever I could find in my garage. Now I’m on a mission to replace everything correctly and it’s harder than I thought!

 

They are semi-pliable, but I bet they would snap (or worse) if you tried to bend them completely in half. They are not hard plastic like the stock ones. The hardware to attach them is much better than stock.

I went RB instead of Rekgen simply because the Rekgen instructions are wrong and have been for years. They tell you to install the front hardware in the back and vice versa. I can't stand when instructions are wrong - causes me an epic meltdown. If they can't even get their own instructions right what else are they fucking up?

 

RCI SLIDERS

 

IMO, Line-X.

 

I’ll try this (because I’ve flunked search function class for the day) does anyone have a diagram for the instrument panel that maybe shows the size of the screws?

I’ve found interior instrument panel diagrams that show me the name of the big pieces (the screws I need are for the lower column under the steering wheel) but nothing that can give me the correct sizes for the 3 screws / bolts!

 

I like Line-X it's seriously tough and I love the look. Did both steel bumpers in it. My bumpers don't take much abuse though.

For sliders and armor I'm torn - I can see where something smooth like powder coat over steel would not grab when sliding over rocks. Just a thought - in application not sure it really matters.

Do it yourself bedliner is easy to patch/repair. I'm leaning towards this for armor when it arrives.

I don't know how well Line-X holds up rubbing on rocks with the trucks full weight on it. Would be cool to know.

 

I wouldn't do a bedliner as it's not as easy to touch up when you need to do it. I would consider a product like steel-it, I'veused it on my skid plates. My sliders came powder coated, but if I ever re spray it will be with steel-it.

 

I had my BillieBar support brackets and ditch light brackets done with Line-X. Powder coating just doesn't last long in Ontario winters due to excessively salted roads.

 

I had a similar question that was answered on a youtube video from a car install company, basically the lock/unlock lighttimer settings ect. Expensive little unit, but I plan on driving this truck into my 40s (currently 32) so I wanted a good screen that would last..hopefully.

If it had factory carplay I never would have touched it. But the remote idatastart remtoe start+ drone mobile was SUPER easy to install. As was replacing all of the factory speakers, just kind of tedious.

 

If you don't mind me asking, what is that?

 

I have 4x mounted on my BillieBars so I can see when I am unloading my bikes at night. I also installed 4x inside my cargo carrier.

 

Line X your rocker panels

 

I've actually put flex seal on some metal dumbells I have. It's held up pretty well after them being banged around. It's not really It's intent to be used like that but it worked better than spray paint

 

As I was driving home yesterday, I heard a weird clatter from the engine and when I got to my parking spot the oil light popped on.

Shut the truck off, popped the hood, and there was oil everywhere I had to put 4.5qts in to get it back to full on the dipstick… a quick check under the truck didn’t reveal any extra ventilation in the block so after I put oil in I started it to try to find the leak. Best I can tell I’ve either got a crack or hole in the oil pressure sensor on the filter/cooler housing, or that’s where it’s pooling and getting blown around by the fan when it’s running.



Gonna have it towed to a local shop and hope it’s just the sensor and not the timing cover, and hope a bearing didn’t go.

 

Do these stick out far enough to be used as a step?