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HotWheelsBurban

Gotta have 4 doors..... Rawhide, TOTY 2023!
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Decided to try my hand at pulling dents out of my bed this morning. Got creative with hammers, ratchet straps and a couple of jacks and this is the result. It’s far from perfect, but it’s an improvement and makes the truck a little more presentable until I find a good bed.

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Before and after
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I wanted to paint my wheels back OEM silver, but....apparently the paint I have is “chrome in a can” which will not work for me. Now to regroup and buy the right color paint (facepalm)
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If you can't find the silver wheel paint, there's a Dodge truck silver paint that has a little flake in it; looks great on factory steel wheels. I think there's a GM truck equivalent too, the silver used on the later 400s looks like cast aluminum. In the 90s Dad and I used the Dodge paint on several GM and mopar rally wheels, and it looked great. We had some of it left from the parts house days. IIRC he tried several different silver colors and he liked the Dodge version best.
Another thing that looks good on steel wheels is to color match the wheels to the truck, or pick a complementary color (like red wheels on a black, silver or gray truck).
 

1ton-o-fun

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It absolutely looks presentable now! Great job!
Whatever you do, DON'T go to real truck.com and look for wheels!
You'll drive yourself nutty looking at wheels and trying to convince yourself that it's worth the $$$$ for your truck.
-Or maybe it's just me, lol. I think I'm going to keep telling myself that what I have will do.
 

frito-bandito

8 Lugs + 6 Tires + 4 Doors
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No real update yet, I am working on a couple of small things that I’ll post pics when I finish likely this weekend.

However, I did drive it tonight down the road to pick up my daughter from a friend’s house, and discovered I have no lights outside except headlights. The dash lights come on with the switch and I can switch the headlights from low to high beam...but no tails or front marker/parking lights...I’ll have to figure out what’s going on there.
 

frito-bandito

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Hard to say, the last thing I did was mess with the 3rd brake light and the tail lights, I don’t know yet if all of the lights are on the same fuse....I kinda suspect the headlight switch

But that’s just an assumption as I haven’t attempted to diagnose it yet lol
 
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