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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Painted my winter wheels, in Idaho we are allowed to run studded tires from October 1 to April 30. Who else here runs a set of winter tires? Chains?
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    Painting steel wheels

    Sorry for the late response. I go for long periods of time without checking this forum, then briefly post a few times. The paint is definitely not as durable as a factory wheel paint, but I have no complaints. I've always had to install the wheels within about a day of painting them, so the lug...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    So glad I live in Idaho. Plenty of people in Spokane get their gas in Idaho because of the major price different just across the border.
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Yep, square tube worked better for the lights. The light buckets have a fixed length of threads to work with, and it isn't long enough to get to the other side of a 1 inch square tube, so I had to get creative with mounting the buckets to it. Ended up running a nut on both sides of my hole so I...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Update on the lights- I drove around for about 10 minutes earlier this week. I learned that the angle iron wasn't stiff enough to prevent vibrations from effecting those top heavy lights. As I drove down the road and hit bumps I could see the light bouncing up and down slightly, and it annoyed...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    I had to order a couple of headlight buckets, usually meant for a motorcycle. Got these on ebay for 50 a piece. I thought I would be able to mount them to my bumper like my light bar had been, but the lights and buckets are much too big and they stuck out way to far. I took the grill off and...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    They are made by trucklite, 7 inch round headlight. I found a good deal on these locally, so I went with them. I'm happy with how these turned out. I definitely had some reservations about cutting my grill, but I think the black paint draws your attention to the lights.
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Mounted some LED headlights to a piece of angle iron I bolted to the radiator support. Wired it up to a relay and a three way switch on the dash, off, low and high beams. They are DOT approved, so I can use them on the road. Had a LED light bar on the bumper before, but didn't like that it was...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Replaced driver side ball joints today, did passenger last weekend. Glad to have saved some money doing it myself.
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Got a Christmas tree from the forest today. Snow was up to my waist and so deep in some spots I had to turn back. IDI did great and sure liked being plugged in for a few hours this morning with temps in the teens.
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    Bucking on acceleration when warm

    I had not used my front tank for a while because I wasn't confident in my selector switch and needed to make a long trip. I can easily get 250 miles out of the rear tank and fill up with 12 gallons or so which is what I did on my trip. Now that I'm at home base, I switched to the front tank and...
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    Painting steel wheels

    I did each wheel individually, because that's all I had time for each night and I wasn't too sure about my small jack stands on the gravel. Took me about 2.5 hours per wheel. I went through all 5 cans of paint for 4 wheels.
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    Painting steel wheels

    Thank you, Jesus Freak. Yeah, ideally the tires and weights would have been taken off, but you work with what you have. I was able to get the grinder and paint on the edge of the rim fairly well. The tricky part was the welded seam just outside the spokes, there was a lot of rust down there and...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Hey there, I haven't posted here in some time. I moved overseas for a few years and my poor 6.9 stayed in a field in Austin Texas the whole time, only being occasional started back when the batteries had some charge. Well, I finally got back to the states last month and was able to retrieve the...
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    Painting steel wheels

    Let me know what yall think, share what you would have done different and ask questions If you got em.
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