Sold Bronze Bonnie and Black Betty now BS and random questions

Soooooo suspension parts are starting to be ordered. Bilstein B110s are ordered for the rear, planning on ordering the Dakars in another week and Bilstein 6112s are ordered for the front. Found it was best to break up everything and order from different places. So planning to save a couple hundred just by shopping around.

Small parts are probably gonna be ordered next week as well (front strut mounts, leaf spring bushings, and rear extended brake lines)

6112s: Ordered from Street Side Auto $549.32
B110s: Performance Lifts $189.90
Total So Far: $739.22
Plan is to be under $1,250

 

Truck looked good....Subd to follow as I am setting my truck (15 DCSB 6spd) in a very similar way.

 

Brace yourself it's a very slow journey this build thread haha
End of the day I know I went to crazy on the last truck so trying to keep it solid DD, hold up from environmental crap from the North East, and can do some camping/road trips/ and beaches

 

Oh I know the feeling...this is the truck I wasn't going to modify. Now I'm slowly setting it up to be a DD/camping/overlanding rig. Good thing I have a very supportive wife who puts up with my crap!!

 

Yeah I knew I was gonna screw with it. But told myself I wasn't going to go as crazy. My wife (recent to) is supportive of it as long as I'm not blowing all the money haha

 

With the Canadian dollar being shit right now all these modifications are really hitting the wallet...I much preferred when it was on par 3-5 years ago. It's only money and you only live once!!

 

Yeah that's what sucks for our neighbors to the North with all the shipping and the exchange rate. Feel your pain any time I look at bumpers and bed racks but they ship from the West Coast to the East Coast

 

Parts are showing up

 

Ugh So much pain in my wallet now...

6112s: Ordered from Street Side Auto $549.32 (delivered)
B110s: Performance Lifts $189.90 (on their way)
ECGS Front Needle Bearing Eliminate Bushing $71.80 (ordered)
Front Strut Mount Rock Auto (Moog) $54.77 (ordered)
Dakar Leaf Pack: Headstrong $424.99 (ordered)
Rear Extended Brake Line: Headstrong $63.99 (ordered)
Poly Bushing for Dakars: Headstrong $23.99 (ordered)

All in Total: $1,378.76
(Parts I could have done without: Strut mount and Needle Bearing Eliminator brings it to $1,252.19)
Plan was to be under $1,250

Considering I could have not ordered 2 parts but decided since I was already ripping everything apart might as well go all in. So in theory I was $2.19 over my goal, I already noticed some CV axle slop hence the needle bearing eliminator bushing, and with 40k miles on my stock struts figured I shouldn't bother reusing them

 

CB installed yet?

 

You know I might actually work on it this weekend haha

 

Installed one in the fall after the DPT2016.....cause the crew I went with were all talking about me and I didn't know it.
(and it would have been a shit ton easier to get track the convoy through the county.)

 

I need to modify my CBI bracket to run a light and the antenna and then figure out where the hell the stick the CB. The spot in front the shifter is taken and so is the armrest space haha

 

What kind of CB do you have?

 

Honestely cant remember off the top of my head haha I bought it off one of my friends when he sold his taco. I know it's a 4 foot fire stick. Maybe an Undien radio? It's a standard size one

 

Ahhh....okay. So it is a box kinda thing?
I have a Cobra75, very small and easy to hide away.

 

Yeah mines a box one. If I had a choice I would have went with the cobra with everything built into the handset. But it was cheap and my buddy needed help

 

Inexpensive is good.

 

Half worn not all that great all terrains and a muddy field was not the best combination yesterday haha