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The start. In the picture you can see body panels, body filler, al's bed liner, and boat paint. I en...

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I started dismantling the truck in order to work on some rust.

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You can see some pretty bad rust here, another Ford ingenious design created a pocket between the ou...

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Cutting, rust removing, and prepping.

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Here I start working on the tire carrier. There was no major rust, but I wanted to repaint it anyway...

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*most pieces*

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Driver-side fender down to bare metal.

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My workspace for the entire project. Thanks Dad for letting me use the garage. Sometimes it got mess...

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New fender panel placed on with panel adhesive. A friend helped me weld it later on.

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Originally I was gonna go with Pacer Flexy-Flares, but I decided I didn't like the look of them over...

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Mad Max style.

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Passenger fender was the worst area of the truck. In hindsight I should have just bought a whole new...

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Tailgate rust. Again another Ford ingenious design. I'll call these faults FIDs from now on.

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Taking the paint off the hood. Luckily there weren't many dents so body filler was nice. If you're w...

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Another great FID. The rear wheel arch is composed of two pieces. The outer, obviously, and the much...

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The crease I talked about earlier.

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Cutting out the wheel arch was easy, riveting the new panel on was harder.

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I stripped the inner arch the best I could before painting.

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POR15, Rustoleum undercoating, and rubberized undercoating were my best friends for this project. PO...

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One of my three attempts at prepping the tailgate.

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I believe I achieved golden redneck status this day.

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Instead of replacing the FID steel inner arch, I opted to just throw in the old plastic liners. It w...

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The windshield cowl was an overall pain. Like other obscure parts, there are no replacements made an...

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Now, thanks to my Dad, I got the opportunity to learn some body work at a Ford Dealership's body sho...

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After a bit of welding and body filler-ing, we took to priming the fenders and hood.

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There was a lot of bondo needed, I gladly supplied my own!

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Finally putting on the quarter replacement panels! My parents and neighbors were very happy for thes...

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Working around the gas flap was hard, but it came out nice!

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Got my very very cracked windshield replaced. Gerber was the cheapest option, at *pnly* $200 ):

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Finally starting to strip paint on the rest of the truck. You can see part of the fender in this pic...

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Various parts like the rear window weatherstripping needed to be replaced, gosh darn dryrot. And why...

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Redneck status level platinum achieved.

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Rain and bare steel don't mix. But rain, steel, and a thick layer of paint dust worked out fine.

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I guess I was going for the albino leopard print ? No really this was just to protect the bare metal...

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The hood had major clear coat failure, I can't find a picture but it was pretty much white before st...

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Rain gutters needed to be cleaned out of old seam sealer. An electric wire brush worked well.

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Got some fender flares off a nice Californian fellow from fullsizebronco.com

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The plastic header panel was very broken around the headlights. I fabbed up some sheet metal and riv...

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2nd attempt at tailgate. This was just sad.

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After stripping layers upon layers of bondo, I turned into a yeti.

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Just as I thought I was getting out of the panel replacement stage, I found more rust. Another FID (...

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FID affected area.

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No pictures of the replacement panel on, but it came out very nice. Bondo work really going on the r...

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Sometimes you gotta take a break from the repetitive work of applying and sanding body filler. I mad...

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Body filler work REALLY coming along now!!! I started school 2 weeks from this time, so it was comin...

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No pictures of the third and final attempt of replacing that tailgate panel. The change in level isn...

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After I opted out of the boat paint, because it was glossy and my body work just wasn't good enough ...

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I started applying glaze. Sanded with 320 grit before the glaze, then 600-900 grit afterwords to ach...

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My family, for the first time in the project, really worked to help me now; and I really needed it. ...

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Even my grandpa, who just moved back to the states, helped a ton. He is a very experienced man, so h...

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We sanded off the glaze coat from the fenders and hood, it was very smooth.

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Grandpa and dad helped to remove a couple broken bolts reminiscent of the tire carrier. We ended up ...

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First time the top was taken off while I've owned it. What a beautiful site! The top was much lighte...

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Time to prime!

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The running joke those few days were that I should just leave the primer. Infact I agreed, the color...

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Replacement rock guard panel being primed.

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Remember that windshield cowl panel I talked about? It was a pain in the butt to strip, prime, and p...

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5 coats of primer later and it was ready to paint. Again tons of thanks to my family and girlfriend ...

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First coat of paint on, I used 2 sizes of foam rollers along with foam brushes. It was going on a bi...

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I ended up rattlecan spraying these pieces as they could be laid flat.

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Went ahead and decided to paint the roof rack too at the last minute. Stripped to bare metal, primed...

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More painting!

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Spraying the visor was easy. The paint on it was newish so I just scuffed it and sprayed it with acr...

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Final coat of paint went on so I started putting it back together. First time I had a spare tire in ...

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Paint on glass is okay.

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Not a great picture, but I drenched the bottom of the interior tailgate in undercoating. Not gonna r...

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I covered the glass access with a bunch of garbage bags and duct tape to stop water leaking out.

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First time with door panels in 6 months.

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My driverside mirror to door support kept breaking so I investigated. The fault was in a spot weld c...

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New chrome windshield trim on. This stuff was expensive but looks amazing.

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Windshield cowl installed, along with new weatherstripping between the cowl and hood.

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Front end all pot together. With those plastic header repairs I finally bought new headlights.

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Visor installed.

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Fender flares installed, no painting needed which was very nice.

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I used the old rubber flexy-flares as inner fender flares. This stops mud from piling on the steel w...

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Gas flap installed.

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And it was all put together!!!!

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Top back on. I haven't repainted it just yet because I ran out of time before moving into college, b...