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Old 04-27-2017, 02:23 PM
JC4x4trucks JC4x4trucks is offline
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Put on satin black mustang bullit wheels with 1" spacers along with a satin black cowl hood with bright green racing strips. To top it off I did the calipers to match the strips.
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Old 04-27-2017, 05:55 PM
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I like that hood


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Old 05-31-2017, 04:34 PM
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Cap is gone and blacked out the nose. Besides some odds and ends midnight is done for now.
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Old 08-13-2017, 10:46 AM
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Did some work to Kacey the other day. Finished wiring in the power seats, fixed a few dead bulbs, got the center console in, put a flowmaster original 40 series muffler on it with new pipes and stack. Midnight hasn't had anything changed. Maybe little things here and there but want to focus back on Kacey to get her finished.
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1996 Ford F-150 Eddie Bauer Edition"Green Monster" (Sold)
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Old 09-05-2017, 10:16 PM
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Did some work to Kacey the other day. Finished wiring in the power seats, fixed a few dead bulbs, got the center console in, put a flowmaster original 40 series muffler on it with new pipes and stack. Midnight hasn't had anything changed. Maybe little things here and there but want to focus back on Kacey to get her finished.
Dude this is an awesome build. I've looked over it and others countless times and I've decided I'm going to convert my 07. The biggest issue I'm having is finding info on the spacer. Did you custom make yours? If so could you give me some specs on them? Also some say when doing it this way it's rough on the wheel bearings, how have yours held up since the conversion?

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Old 12-04-2017, 04:58 PM
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Dude this is an awesome build. I've looked over it and others countless times and I've decided I'm going to convert my 07. The biggest issue I'm having is finding info on the spacer. Did you custom make yours? If so could you give me some specs on them? Also some say when doing it this way it's rough on the wheel bearings, how have yours held up since the conversion?

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No I didn’t custom make them. Found the kit second hand but it came from JCWhitney. On this truck I put over 30,000 without any issues and the truck the kit was on prior I put 75,000+ miles on it without changing seals or bearings. (And the axle off the old dually build is under the black truck now with only new brakes) I’m trying to get adaptors to change over to dually wheels. Hoping it will be less strain on the axle and easier to maintain since I do tow a 5000lbs fifth wheel camper with it.
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Old 07-26-2018, 08:47 AM
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Ok so long over do for an update. Over this past wonder during a really cold day broke studies off of one side on the rear. Decided to finally do my axle swap and put in an explorer 8.8” rear with disk brakes. Conversion kit from Barnes4wd.com


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Old 07-26-2018, 09:34 AM
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Once the axle was in I finally had custom adaptors made to go from a 5x4.5 to an 8x6.5 lug pattern. Front I won’t with 3.5” thick while the rear I only needed 2” thick cause of the wider axle. Thanks to USAdapters.com for them.
Got 6 new Firestone Destination M/T2 235/85r16 sitting on 1997 f-350 Alcoa budd wheels.



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Comparison from 7 years of work.

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1996 Ford F-150 Eddie Bauer Edition"Green Monster" (Sold)
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Old 05-06-2019, 06:52 PM
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Just got the new bumper mounted. Working on modifying my brush guard to fit.
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1989 Ford Mustang "Old Blue" (Sold)
1996 Ford F-150 Eddie Bauer Edition"Green Monster" (Sold)
1957 Jeep Willies Pickup (Sold)
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Old 04-13-2020, 03:13 PM
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What mirrors did you add to your ranger?
Love the build man keep on posting
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