The point was not that ceramic headers look good, its that they wont rust. Headers are not as thick as cast manifolds, so they will rust through faster.

 

Cool man,you got the hard stuff out of the way.If you haven't driven it yet, when's launch date?

 

Launch is scheduled for Thursday morning.

Wensday, i'll be in Ft. Wayne IN for a farm show, so the truck's gonna stay inside the shop to let the bedliner cure.

I'm gonna drive it pretty hard thurday to make sure nothings wrong with it, b/c sunday morning I'm leaving for Kewanee for my second semester

 

tire shine works well. Seen that somewhere and tried it on my explorer.

 

I replaced my front shocks yesterday. Nothing special, just your standard Monroe gas shocks. Had to cut them in half and then through 4 bolts to get them out. I think they could have been original...scary to think about, seeing as it has 171k on it.

 

Sounds like a plan!!! Is the farm show a big party ?

 

The PA farm show is this week. I might go Saturday depends on work

 

it was fun, no party but it was fun. dad and i looked at a Fast Sprayers 28% applicator toolbar 16 row unit (our old anhydrous bar is only 12 row and we upped to a 16 row planter) and also upgraded seed meters for the planter (we had a problem with doubles and skips this year, which can impact yields)

anyway, what i did to my ram, nothing today, but yesterday i finished up the body work, i have a few pics from the bodywork and plenum fix saga
(if you have a 56K modem....RUN)

rust hole in right rear fender


dent in left rear quarter panel before i fixed it (came out much better than i thought it would)


left side (see, can't even tell there was a dent there, unless you stand next to it and look for a couple seconds anyway!!!)


right side


another view (how it looks from a distance and you can see the bug shield)


new plenum plate (only pic i have, my photobucket account is fubar)


and the tires i'm putting on tomorrow, just imagine them on a factory rim in the 265/75/r16 size (since i dunno if i'll be able to post a real pic b/c my stoopid photobucket)

 

i hope you finished grinding all that pitted rust away before the herculiner was applied.

 

yea, actually that little bit was above the herculiner, i pulled it down an repainted it (was able to get color matched paint in a rattle bomb)

all in all, i'm very happy with how the truck came out, seeing as this is my first swing at body work (other than chopping the fenders on my Jeep)