The wife caught me Amorall-ing the bedliner
of my truck today! The guys in the white coats will be coming soon!

 

I hear you on the guys with the white coats. I was under my truck for a hour this past weekend pilishing my muffler, and all the pipes. No one will ever see it, but I know it is clean.

 

i confess, i have cleaned under my truck too! rag with silicone on it.makes everything shiny and new looking.

 

My wife thinks I'm nuts cause I wax the underside of my hood and the paint in the engine compartment. Hey, I spend a lot of time in there and I want it to be clean! Is that so crazy?

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98 NASCAR Special Edition
1OF600 w/ Auto & Tonnaue
K&N FIPK
Hypertech Power Prog.
JET 180 degree thermostat
Hellwig SportTech swaybar
Gibson SuperTruck CatBack
Pilot SS Resonated Tips
Shelf-It overhead storage
Hella FF300 Fog Lights in grill.

 

I guess the guys in the white coat will be down to pick me up right after you guys. I polish everything on my truck. After a long hard winter, I plan to detail ans shine the engine and engine bay up. I then plan to clean everything under the truck and shhot some black paint or undercoating on the frame rails. My girlfriend thinks I love the truck more than her... what she doesn't know...lol. She tails me I am going to rub all the paint off one of these days.

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97 Ford F150 XLT 4wd 4.6L auto, Std cab/Long bed, PW,PL, and PM, captian chairs w/arm rests
Sylvania Cool Blue Bulbs, Ford logo hitch and license plate, tinted windows, blackouts front and rear(w/ford logos on front blackouts),ventvisors all around, painted logos on door sills and under hood, 55w backup lights, K&N Filter, custom 4x4 emblems,and much more to come


thomaswright5714@hotmail.com

 

I just got done painting the underside of my truck. Black undercoating for the frame and floorboards. Ford dark blue for the axles and suspension parts. Red for the driveshaft, diff. cover, and brake drums!

-Jon

 

Howdy!

Doesn't Armoralling the liner make it slippery?! What if she you wanna make sure she stays on all 4??

Have a slippery day.

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My ride:

Basics:
- '99 XLT F-150

Under hood and back:
- Ram air (Don't ask me how )
- AiRaid intake
- Flowmaster DF 50 Series
- 24x3.5" Stainless steel slashed tips (Yes! Solid polished SS, no cheesy chrome-plated)
...

Outside:
- Precision polished billet grille and plate holders
- American Racing 17x8s polished Pythons (Flushed front AND back)
- Goodyear.. something tires (Expensive is all I know. LOL. No Firestone firecrackers for me either)
- Rhino liner
- Ford nerf bars
- Ford bed rails
...

Inside:
- My girlfriend!
...

Fun stuff:
- Dual sirens Black Widow alarm system/keyless entry (Enough decibels to go deaf in a garage )
- Custom driving lights (Just a cool blue)
- 2 High-Watt lights behind grille (For people who cut me off )
- Dual horns (For people who, again, cut me off)
- Dual wheel locks (So I won't be driving home on bricks!)
- Spare wheel lock (So I won't have to use a brick as a spare )
...

Best of all:
- Texas A&M University aTm front plate! Gig'em Aggies!!

Stephlan

 

I read on here yesterday that some people use a leaf blower to dust pollen off their truck. I thought that was a cool idea. So last night I gave it a try. After I finished my wife came outside and asked what the hell I was doing. Then I noticed that my neighbor across the street was staring at me like I was an idiot.

 

What kind of cleaning do you do first . . . ?

Bob



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Gots: Gots: 2000 F-150, 4x4, SCab, XLT, Island Blue, Styleside, 157” Wheelbase, 5.4L EFI, 4-Speed Auto O/D, Class III Towing Package; AM/FM/CD; Dark Graphite 40/60 Cloth Seats (F/R); Rear Slider; 4 Wheel ABS; “Ex-Tang” Snapless Tonneau; Ford “Duraliner” Bedliner; “CDA” Paint Saver Pad; “Lund Runners” Truck Steps; “Husky” Splashguards; “Saddleman"Hood Protector; “WeatherTech” WeatherFlectors; 4th Brake Light (again!); “Pilot” Navigator 55 Watt Backup Lights (pair, under hitch); “K&N” FIPK; Lighted “Blue Oval” Logos – grill and tailgate, “Weather Tech” Floor Mats (retired for the summer);

Wants: “Gibson” Dual Sport Truck Cat-Back Exhaust System; “Exotic Wood” Steering Wheel & Dash Kit; “RoadMaster” Active Suspension; Remote Starter; Pilot Driving Lights; “Lund” Backdraft Tailgate Spoiler; “Superchip”…

 

and here I thought I was a freak! It's great to be accepted! LOL.
I admit...
I admit that I have crawled under my vehicle to wash off the exhaust pipes. Not just the tips, but the pipes, and the muffler.
I admit that I armor all the interior of the wheel wells, and upon rotating my tires will even wash and polish the inside of the wheels.
I admit that I have waxed the underside of my hood, and actually uninstalled my bug deflector to be able to clear the underside of the hood under the bug deflector, then reinstalled it.
I admit to washing the inside and outside of my windows at least once every other week, and cleaning all the interior trim at the same time.
I admit to waxing step bars and brush guards at the same time I'm waxing other things.
I admit to spending a whole day saturday detailing my vehicle - only to have it rain that night, then redo the whole thing the next day. LOL
I admit ot having scolded perfectly beautifal female friends simply because they placed a kleenix in the magazine storage thing in the door, they probably think Im a freak, LOL.

Now my explorer is an entirely different story... I haven't washed it since August of last year, interior trim pieces are falling apart and coming loose, it rides like crap, and the engine compartment is covered with about an inch of dust, LOL (ok I'm exagerating a bit, but it isn't nearly as clean as the truck). I was going to take it on a run a few weeks back... and I hosed it off to get it looking cleaner, LOL

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Matt Adams
Littleton, CO
1994 Ford Explorer, highly modified ( http://mattadams.f150online.net )
2000 F-150 XLT Supercab
5.4L Triton V8 Engine, Automatic Transmission, 3" dual exhaust, Rhino lining, K&N Filtercharger Intake Performance Kit (FIPK), JL Audio stealthbox with Phoenix gold amplifier, premium stereo
Genuine Steel brush guard with 4 PIAA 520's mounted on it, PIAA Airdam with PIAA 520 fog's and PIAA 510 superwhite driving lights in it.
off-road and tow packages
and much much more!
Grizzly Roll bar (double bar/single bar) with 5 PIAA 80 XT's mounted on it (3 driving, 2 fogs)
Storage box in the back
Soon to come:
Pistol mod (convenient, easily accessible yet somewhat hidden access).
Custom paint job?

 

Relax. The guys in the white coats are too busy cleaning and polishing the areas that no one sees in their trucks too.

 

Man you guys are nuts!
Just kidding

I am hoping to find the time to take care of the engine compartment.

Many times I tell myself that I will only wash my truck, but I end up spending over 2 hours polising, waxing and cleaning the interior.

I can tell just by looking at my truck if it is having a good day.

Dirty= truck having a bad day
Clean and shiny= truck has the biggest smile you can imagine.

A clean truck is a happy truck, keep up the obsessive compulsive benaivor.

Its now 11:31 pm and I am getting excited at the prospect of getting to wash it tomorrow. I would do it now if I could.

My truck was so happy a couple weeks ago, it received all of these things on the same weekend.
Wash, polish, and wax
interior cleaning
cleaned and re-oiled the K&N
oil change (only mobil 1)
fuel filter
Jacobs ignition installed
Jacbos plug wires installed
copper core sparkplugs
rotated the tires


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My first Baby:
2000 SC XLT Bright Red, 4.2L
5speed
K&N air filter
3" intake mod
16" perma cool electric fan
Jacobs DIS
best 1/4 mile: 17.1 @ 81.53 MPH
total MPG average to date 19.15

My Second (but most important) Baby:
Hailey Jean, born April 9, 2000

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LeanNcut
Thats a good one!
Maybe then the handrails come into effect!!

 

At least you have never changed out the leds in the power acc. buttons on the doors I heard some did this so they would be blue instead of green. That is a little over the top to me.
I am guilty of everything else people have mentioned here,though,lol.
My neighbor looks at me a little strange when I armorall the engine compartment. Of course,he's a shovie driver and doesn't understand the pride factor in owning the best truck on the road,hehehe,,,,98

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98 F-150 4.6 Litre XLT2wd Ext. cab
Yokahama AVS/ST's,,too noisy
prarie tan/tan int.
K/N gen.II fipk
custom dual exh/gibson rectangle tips/rear exiting.
color matched snuglid
Superchip!!!
Clear front corners
Speedglo gauges w/carbon fiber overlay
Carbon fiber Grant styling ring wheelcover
Stillen Quad light air dam,with Pilot PL-240 driving lights
Billet third brake light cover/oval pattern
Euro taillights,with APC red bulbs
Cobra 75WXST cb w/weather alert
Kenwood cd w/Radio Shack speakers,and Soundstream P203e amplifier//Single 10" sub
Viper alarm
On the waywheels,tires,Proglass shaker hood,Steel Horse C5 leather seat
Come see my new pictures@ www.my-f150.com
WOW,what a cool site!

FENDER GUITARS ROCK!!!

I just "wish" it was lowered

 

I will be cleaning mine too


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2001 F-150 XLT White/Silver, Styleside Supercab, 4.6L Triton V8, Automatic, 3.55, Ford running boards/ bed liner, Flow Master 50/Delta 3" dual exhaust, tow package, Single CD

Future Mods: K&N FIPK, Super Chip, RAM Air Hood