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I got a stereo installed. I had this kenwood double din sitting around my garage so I put it to use. 
It's got a GPS too.
It's got a GPS too.
What did you do to the expy today
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ExplorerTom
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I'm taking mine camping again this weekend. Need to fill up on gas and load it. Hopefully get a chance to look at the sunroof drains if it's not raining.
Sprayed the frame with rust inhibitor and then with a few coats of asphalt undercoat. Hope that slows down the damage that road salt does every winter.
I've also sprayed the rims with black truck bed liner on top of the 2year old black Plastidip that was starting to look pretty faded. I like the bed liner look better, it's a bit glossier than the Plastidip.
I've also sprayed the rims with black truck bed liner on top of the 2year old black Plastidip that was starting to look pretty faded. I like the bed liner look better, it's a bit glossier than the Plastidip.
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Flying out of town now, so the only pic I could post is of the asphalt overspray on my arm that I was unable to remove even after lots of scrubbing
I'll take pics of the truck when I'm back in a couple days.
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Flying out of town now, so the only pic I could post is of the asphalt undercoating overspray on my arm that I was unable to remove even after lots of scrubbing
I'll take pics of the truck when I'm back in a couple days.
Haha nice man.. What year you got?
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2004 EB and parts of the the frame are really showing their age (especially the rad support). hope the rust inhibitor slows down the decay.
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Yeah my 03 is having the same trouble I may just take it for a rust repair lol
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Yeah, I see you're in RI. Your winters aren't much better than we get up here.
BTW, I just realized that I do have a pic of some other work I did today: cleaned up the engine bay and refreshed the look of the main hoses and plastics. Used some no-water cleaning spray, then some dashboard shining foam and finally also sprayed a bit of high-gloss clear coat on the plastics.
Looks good. I finally got tired of all the rattles so I did/am putting a bit of foam and adhesive felt on certain contact points on the front interior panels. I forgot my tools so there are a few places I can't do today but I am doing what I can.
Also took the truck up lookout mountain today and the trans temps hit 195 max on the climb up (74 F, me in the truck, AC on, OD locked out and in 2nd gear for most of it) but didn't get into the danger zone. This tells me that my truck will be needing a bigger tranny cooler in the future.
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Also took the truck up lookout mountain today and the trans temps hit 195 max on the climb up (74 F, me in the truck, AC on, OD locked out and in 2nd gear for most of it) but didn't get into the danger zone. This tells me that my truck will be needing a bigger tranny cooler in the future.
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Awesome guys and yeah that looks great! What products do you use? I have degreaser but I get nervous covering my entire engine bay with the stuff to clean it lol and I don't have the stones to pressure wash it like some people on YouTube
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Yeah, I don't have the balls to use water in the engine bay either.
Not even low pressure. That's why I used a waterless wash spray (Meguiars brand) and a few rags to clean the plastics, hoses, battery, pipes. I only sprayed those and was careful to not spray into the alternator.After that I used some Simoniz dashboard cleaning foam to make things shiny. Still wasn't 100% happy with the look of the plastics and I had some Duplicolor clear coat laying around the garage, so I sprayed a few coats of that over the plastics to give them an extra shiny wet look. I avoided spraying that on the hoses. Not sure how it reacts to rubber and didn't want the rubber to crack or anything.
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How did you measure the trans temp?
I mounted a ScanGauge II on my truck since February or March and I have it set to display the trans temp on it. Best $169 I've spent on that truck.
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Installed a Wheelskins leather steering wheel cover over my worn factory leather, went with the two-tone Euro style in Blue and Oak which looks good with the medium wedgewood blue/medium parchment Eddie Bauer color combo
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^^I'll have to check that out. My steering wheel is needing something.
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I just ordered an UltraGauge MX 1.3 for mine. I'm not quite sure where I'm going to put it yet, but for now it can share my iOttie windshield mount with my phone.
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Thanks for the reminder on the ScanGauge X-gauges. I programmed mine for trans temp today. Might do a few others.
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