Red Rocket an expedition build

hell yeah, can't wait to see it.

 

Awesome job man. Can't wait to see the finished product. And Roll Tide.

 

Roll Tide, ill be in Tuscaloosa this weekend, i can't wait to get it back as well maybe i can get it back some time next week, ill be posting a lot of pictures once its on. Also i just installed HID headlight, im really excited about this because with my tint at night it can be hard to see.

 

first ill start out with i am on a friends computer mine did die it wont start even in safemode.

I am very happy over all i took pictures of every flaw i could find, all of them are my fault the powdercoating is perfect.

this is the main body. the color is a matte im sorry for the picture quality i will try to get the girlfriends camera for tomorrow.

 

here is the shackle mount i think all the welds came out looking great, the grinding i feel like would have been better if i would have ground untill i thought it was perfect then painted with gloss black and ground out the imprefections.

you can see a little welding splatter i missed.

 

Here is the light bessel (not sure that i used that word correctly) It was aluminized steel, i didn't know that welding splatter is impossible to get off aluminized steel so i have welding splatter in the light holes here is a pic, its not that bad.

 

here u can see a few little grinding errors and the 2 little pit holes on the top, i know i am really being picky about this and i think that overall it looks amazing and will look flawless from even 5 feet but when you really look at it it's not perfect.

 

here is a picture of the side i think this looks good. sorry for the blury shot.

 

here she is right next to the sliders, you can see they are the same and the sliders still look great.

 

Looks great! Pics of it on the truck!!!!

 

got the front torn down and you can see the grill support is gone, wait untill you see how tight the winch fits.

 

now the silly little plastic thing that helps support the grill is gone and you can see she got some bbq black paint on that radiator, no pic of it but the lights behind the grill were never perfectly level i removed the right one and lowed it by adding 2 lock washers.

 

on the sawhorses this is how i would later install it by myself.

 

here is a little something that was a supprise it was an idea i had in lowes its 1/4inch tubing cut down the middle and lining the light holes to keep the light off the metal.

 

here she is with both light in notice how black they look from the reflection of the sleve. this was not expected I really like it.

 

winch sitting in place, im going to need a new roller fairlead im thinking aluminum but stilll a roller or maybe the pollished look. getting the bolts in after the powdercoating was very very hard. the strap is because the bumper with winch was too much for the sawhorses they slid apart this made the bumper with winch land on my foot and scratch the powdercoating on the left side, oh well it was going to happen some time.

 

here is a shot from the back of the winch

 

serious teaser shot look at that winch fit, money

 

alright so here is how i got it on. i drove it on, stacked it up on the sawhorses take a look. here it is

 

here she is mounted up and pulled back, getting the bolts in with the powdercoating on was not fun