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A side trip to Lassen National Park on the way back to Wyoming.

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Finished installing the Slee tray with compressor mount- very straightforward, just had to drill 4 holes to mount the Viair compressor. I'm cleaning up some wiring and the air hose tomorrow, as well as replacing the heater T's and diff fluids. I should probably clean up the engine bay a little bit while I'm in there again lol.

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Gotta finish wrapping today...need help

Does anyone know how to remove this rear vent? I try popping it out and it seems like the front part is stuck on something...is it all clips? Is there a hidden bolt somewhere on the back side?

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Gotta finish wrapping today...need help

Does anyone know how to remove this rear vent? I try popping it out and it seems like the front part is stuck on something...is it all clips? Is there a hidden bolt somewhere on the back side?

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I looked in the fsm but did not find much. It is a roof vent and has an inner scoop or a tube shaped thing heading upwards about 4-6 inches. I would think there are screws from the back to hold the front trim and this tube I'm describing.
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Paint cleaner. Wax. And a few panels clay barred.

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Finished installing the Slee tray with compressor mount- very straightforward, just had to drill 4 holes to mount the Viair compressor. I'm cleaning up some wiring and the air hose tomorrow, as well as replacing the heater T's and diff fluids. I should probably clean up the engine bay a little bit while I'm in there again lol.

Much better! Also, heater T's looked brand new lol. Oh well, I guess I have a couple spares.

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swapped out my rear Slee heavy springs, spacers, and air bags for Old man 864 coils. I gained an inch in height, and the truck feels much sturdier. Wish I had done this long time ago. I measure 24' from center of center cap to fender now.
 
Picked it up...to compliment my 40 :)
Bone stock, PO owned for 16 years, dealer maintained...
High mileage (280k) but in good nick..and AbS/mc unit and rack already replaced by dealer..
Shocks and BFGs next..
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^^ paint looks great for the mileage and year
 
Did quite a few things this weekend...
  1. Complete full transmission fluid exchange
Last weekend I drained & dropped the transmission pan to thoroughly clean the pan, magnets, and to scrape off all the old OEM FIPG which was a pain in the a$$! That post can be found HERE. This weekend I finished it by doing the running exchange - pulling the oil cooler line and cycling through the gears while idling and measuring how much was drained, then refilling through the dip stick (perks of having a pre-03 LC) and repeat. Went through 18qts. total...at $10 a qt.. I had the typical setup of using vice grips to clamp the rubber line to the side of a bucket and it worked out perfectly. As for the bucket, those orange 5gal ones from Home Depot are perfect if you buy the Leak-Tite lid too, and that's all less than $10. It's short so it fit under my truck perfectly so I didn't need ramps. I premeasured it with water to make graduations and I put a light behind the bucket so I could see the level. Enough with the talk time for pics:

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Keep in mind I did the pan drain & fill last weekend, so that accounts for the four 4qt bottles that are not pictured. Total of 18qts.

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2. Plasti-Dipped Moulding & Emblems

Then I went to town with a couple cans of plastidip. I did the side mouldings about 3yrs ago but didn't do a great job back then so now it looks like crap now. Time for a refresh. I was conflicted on which part(s) of it to dip so I decided to just do the whole thing and then remove whatever I don't want after a few weeks, unless I like how it is. I was thinking about removing the chrome piece and color matching that portion to the body color. Just an idea but it would go with the color matched grill emblem, right?:) I also did all the rear emblems which is something that I've been putting off for a while. I'm really happy with how everything turned out, I did 5 coats on the side mouldings with the 5th being the heaviest, and 4 coats on the rear emblems with the 4th being the heaviest, for a total of 2 cans. And yes I did break off the rear vent cover...and then saw the most recent thread on here about how to remove that a few hours later:bang:

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to be continued...
 
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3. Painted Wiper Blade Arms & Cowl Louver

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Had my favorite helper the entire time

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4. Went to a a local car meet a few buddies of mine helped organize. A lot of cool cars but not the turn out we expected due to an early morning downpour not mixing very well with Pilot Sport Cup II's on a few McLarens, an Aventador SV, a Huracan, and a '17 Ford GT. Those guys were traveling a few hours and didn't want to risk. Unfortunately it cleared up right when the meet began and turned int o a beautiful day. An R8 missed the event and one family was out of town that had another SV and a few Rolls Royce's. One guy brought out his 458 Italia which was flawless, and the rest of the cars were a toss up of everything from BMWs, Mustangs, Porsches, Vettes, Teslas, VWs, Audis and Chargers.

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Popped on a set of Bora spacers...


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Did you just order 4 and on their own they gave you 2 fronts and 2 rears? I couldn't find the difference on their website, but I am only interested in getting some fronts.
 
  1. And yes I did break off the rear vent cover...and then saw the most recent thread on here about how to remove that a few hours later:bang:



to be continued...

Haha, that was me asking the forum on how to remove it, i was for sure there was no bolt back there, seems like it's all plunger type of clips. There's a long ass bolt behind that thing you'll need to remove the interior panel to get to it. You'll need to double tape the entire thing now.
 
Haha, that was me asking the forum on how to remove it, i was for sure there was no bolt back there, seems like it's all plunger type of clips. There's a long ass bolt behind that thing you'll need to remove the interior panel to get to it. You'll need to double tape the entire thing now.
Yessir and I saw that you started that thread literally 1.5hrs after I broke that off:rolleyes: My plan is to remove the old shoddy plastidip job that was previously on it, re-dip it (do a better job this time) and then double-sided tape or JB-Weld it back in place
 
View attachment 1538703 Decided to rip off the deteriorating wood grain and hydro dip the console and window/ door switch panels. Not the best but not bad for a beginner I think.
This looks so freaking good. I had to google hydrodipping—had never heard of it. Did you use a film to do it? And can you post up some pics of it installed?
 
Did you just order 4 and on their own they gave you 2 fronts and 2 rears? I couldn't find the difference on their website, but I am only interested in getting some fronts.

Just call, they are custom made anyhow and take about 2-3 weeks to get in hand. They'll make anything you want.
 

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