An absolutely perfect Sunday for working on the slick. Messed around with the interior of the cab and worked on the tailgate. Here's the tailgate:
When removing the bumper of the long bed, the bolts got displaced (my fancy way of avoiding there were lost). Picked up some new bolts at the local hardward store but think I need others with more diameter so that is why the bumper looks odd. I used the box to help me position (was by myself) and just left it.
And for those with a keen eye, the color is different than my previous posts. As I indicated in the prior pictures, the color looked much better in the pictures than in real life. The picture of my bed in the earlier post of this thread looks like a nice orange but in person the color had a pinkish/magenta tint. Looking at the picture of my grill you can sort of see it more clearly by the color of the valence. It was gnawing at me so knew I had to look at another option. Found Rustoleum has a Safety Red and Safety Yellow so I blended them and the orange came out closer to real orange (in my opinion). As a result, have being doing a bit of repainting which has not really been a big deal.
The tailgate came out ok - since the truck is for the kids to tailgate at their his school football games, not going to beat myself up with the amateur tape job on the letters.
Working on the inside of the cab. PO sprayed everything black. I am going to change the lower half of the dash to white to provide some contrast. Have not decided yet whether to keep the rest black or go orange.
Next week dropping disk brakes on the front.
