Nice chef, nice

 

That looks like a fun trip. Glad your finally getting some fun out of it after all the work you have put in. Love the runner.

 

haven't posted in a while... just making a few changes.

 

Ohhhh myyyyy! Lol... Waiting for more!

 

Just a few i see. Lol nothing special.

And CHEF!!!! I wanna drive on the beach sooooo bad!! Let alone jump my truck on some soft sand along with other yota's!!! I need more yota friends here.. (

I think i'm goin to re-vin my truck as an 86 so i can post up in here. lol No one cares about the 84-85 section cause we cut the corners and bought ours with the solid front.

 

New stock oem rear bumper. What do you guys think? Not liking all the shiny chrome plasti dip black…?

 

looks nice!

 

New OEM bumpers are the best , but theres a saying out there,
Friends dont let other friends Plasti-Dip.
I would, Sand, Primer, Primer again, Then Bedline the bumper. It comes out great and does not peel off, Unless that is ultimately what you are going for. But with my experience, its a great look if done right and helps with rocks, mud ect...
Just a sugestion.

 

Go for it. Plasti dip is easy, hides mistakes, touches up wonderfully, and if you decide you don't like it, peel it off!

 

Thanks for all the feedback!
I'm planing to be painting it tomorrow if the weather helps out. Makes me want to return the bumper back and just roll without, my personal opinion it looked better without the bumper. Hopefully the BLACK looks better.
Do really have to sand and prime to spray Bed-liner…?

 

Yeah you will wanna scuff that chrome up a bit. If not then nothing will properly stick to it. Bed liner will peel in a heart beat. So proper prep work is a must.

 

Whatever you do DON'T roll without it. mine got screwed up and I didn't replace it. I wish I would have. my bed is wasted folded right up like a tin can. bumper would have saved it for sure. It was literally a two mile an hour crash so lame

 

Super jealous, Chef! You guys are having too much fun! I'll have to think about moving over to the west coast when I finish college.

 

Hahaha. ..... Well, you wouldn't be the first. The weird thing, however, is, that 15 to 20 years ago, three times as many people were coming in to California as we're leaving... Now, because of the enormous, morbidly obese proverbial big brother, which smothers and straight home business and, well, taxes most people right out of here... Especially if they start to build any sort of success... Now the ratio, as I remember, is more people are leaving. Yet, of the people moving in, most seem to be East Coast or north west coast( or obviously from Mexico) , they're just plain tired of the cold or equally cumbersome governments... I guess for most of the people I talk to that moved here from back east, the general consensus is that they might as well deal with the same taxes and Big Brother as back east, ANDDDD have the beauty and the awesome weather of California ... ?

I know one thing for sure, if you pick the right place, your truck will stop rusting! Lol. I'm not sure if that's a big enough reason to move across the country...But, I will give Los Angeles one thing... It has been awesome throughout my life to be able to surf at 5 in the morning, then drive up and snow ski by 9 AM, hike around a bit and then get down to the lower desert lakes for an hour or more of water skiing/jet skiing...all in the same day! Plus, one of the most amazing trips that I ever had was in/through California.... where I drove from Los Angeles up to Sierra Highway through Mount Whitney and all the hot springs and Mammoth and Convict Lake and Lake Tahoe... And then cut over 2 the North American Fork of the American River in Auburn, then down to Santa Cruz, beautiful mountains up there, and equally beautiful beach... Then head down to Oceano Dunes or Pismo, then end in Carpinteria for a couple of creature comfort days of camping on the beach with pay hot showers in the strawberry festival going on right down on the boardwalk ... That was one of the most incredibly fun trips I've ever had. On the North American Fork River, while camping: We woke up with our tents appearing to be blacked out... It was around 830 in the morning so, that didn't fit... As we unzipped the tents, 1000 off butterflies took off, they were in mating season and going crazy over the colorful tents that we all had. That was quite the unintentional experience, man!

I know there is incredible beauty back east... It's just that many people get tired of waiting up to 8 months to get back to the shorts and sunglasses weather! I lived in northeastern Washington by the border of Canada... It was absolutely gorgeous, and I would love to have a vacation home there. I don't know, maybe move back up into that area someday .... or Oregon... But man were the winters pretty brutal!

 

 

Daaaaamnnn.....frigin nice!!

-RONI-

 

Had to do some work on the house, so I rented this lift. Really pleased that my 3.4 pulled it so well, thing weighed 3200#.

 

Wowii! Lol.... Seriously, nice work horse props going out your way!

 

red first gen runners = sexy!

truck load of goodies came in this afternoon... hope to have it completed by sunday evening!