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Looks very nice.
Any chance you will be doing a write up of the installation?
I will, but let me know if you have any questions in the interim.
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Installed a new SwingCase from @Stage3Motorsports which required me to make a trip to Lowe's to buy yet another tap to clean the holes that were filled with spray in bed liner.

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Saw a guy pull up in this beautiful '53 Merc. I complimented the guy on how nice his car was when asking him what year it was. He said, "It's a 53," and stormed off without even saying "Thank you." So I guess owners of '53 Mercs are either a$$holes or just hate talking about cars. Whatever. :wink:

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Those mid-fifties Merc's were way to cool! :sunglasses:
 
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Tax return? Are you having shop do this? It's super easy if you're leveled and then it's a matter of crawling under with some socket wrenches and drain tray...

I missed the 4G part...
yep do it all myself. the 4g can still be worked on by average folks. tax return is buy all the stuff needed, parts, fluids etc.
 

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yep do it all myself. the 4g can still be worked on by average folks. tax return is buy all the stuff needed, parts, fluids etc.
Must be a small tax return lol...
 

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1. Forscan ABS Bleed. WOW what a difference! It feels like it actually has brakes now! Kind of nuts that it would leave the factory with air in the line. I recommend everyone do this immediately. I used OBDLink EX.

2. Damper!
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3. Neoprene Seat Covers (Universals from Amazon made by FH Group). They actually fit pretty darn well.
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1. Forscan ABS Bleed. WOW what a difference! It feels like it actually has brakes now! Kind of nuts that it would leave the factory with air in the line. I recommend everyone do this immediately. I used OBDLink EX.

2. Damper!
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Even though you didn't have it as #1 I'll still give ya a t shirt. ?

Welcome to the club!! :rockon:

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I had a strange issue after I had my windows tinted last weekend. It is legal to have your windshield tinted in Nevada if it is non-reflective and that is just what I did. (I only did 70 ceramic I'm not crazy.) Driving to work yesterday I noticed my lights were on and it was a typical sunny, cloudless day here. Great - I thought - I ruined the auto headlight function with my tint. After doing some research I found this should not be the case. Especially with such a light film. So I inspected the sensor on the dashboard and found that indeed some over-spray from the install soap was dried on there - but really not much. I wiped it clean and today my sensor could see the sun again. Everything back to normal and it had nothing to do with the new darkness.

I didn't think this was worthy of a thread but figured a PSA was due because this is something you could do to yourself just cleaning your windshield on your own.

For your time, a photo of the dirty, newly-tinted truck after I picked it up.

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I had a strange issue after I had my windows tinted last weekend. It is legal to have your windshield tinted in Nevada if it is non-reflective and that is just what I did. (I only did 70 ceramic I'm not crazy.) Driving to work yesterday I noticed my lights were on and it was a typical sunny, cloudless day here. Great - I thought - I ruined the auto headlight function with my tint. After doing some research I found this should not be the case. Especially with such a light film. So I inspected the sensor on the dashboard and found that indeed some over-spray from the install soap was dried on there - but really not much. I wiped it clean and today my sensor could see the sun again. Everything back to normal and it had nothing to do with the new darkness.

I didn't think this was worthy of a thread but figured a PSA was due because this is something you could do to yourself just cleaning your windshield on your own.

For your time, a photo of the dirty, newly-tinted truck after I picked it up.

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That amber grille accent compliments the blue very nicely...
 
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1. Forscan ABS Bleed. WOW what a difference! It feels like it actually has brakes now! Kind of nuts that it would leave the factory with air in the line. I recommend everyone do this immediately. I used OBDLink EX.

2. Damper!
IMG_0216.jpeg


3. Neoprene Seat Covers (Universals from Amazon made by FH Group). They actually fit pretty darn well.
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You can bleed brakes with software?
 

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You can bleed brakes with software?
No necessarily; I'm not bleeding the brake line or caliper, but the ABS module. In most vehicles today, bleeding the ABS module will require a scantool. Luckily with Ford, we have ForScan, instead of a 10K SnapOn.

Here's a thread on this topic.
 

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I had the truck into the dealership to have the Ford-branded trailer brake controller installed. Evidently it’ll work with pre-collision braking and all that so the integration was worth it for me.
 

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Nothing. Waiting on the storm to blow by so I can detail the Ranger.
 

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Finally caved and got “bigger” tires. 285/70 Toyo at3. Can’t be that much bigger tho, my Speedo was reading correctly according to my phone gps. They did look bigger when I compared them to the original tires. Maybe the speedo was off?
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