My 98 Crew Cab Build

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So I bought a 98 Crew Cab 1 Ton from an uncle. Has the 6.5 Diesel but it wouldn’t run. After diagnosing every single thing I thought it would be it turned out to be the pass lock module that took a ****. It’s been a good pickup as I’ve traveled to New Mexico, All around Tx and headed to Michigan and North Dakota nxt upcoming weeks. I’m starting a build thread so I can get opinions and ideas as I continue to build it. Plan is to coilover the front with a super duty Dana 60 and air bag the rear.

 

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Here is the day I brought her home. Bone stock C3500

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Dash was all cracked and ugly, back glass was shattered, this big girl needed some TLC

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Here she was when I took her to work, for being a 1 ton (compared to my 82 square 1 ton) it was amazing on fuel. Drive her 750 miles on ONE TANK hell yea

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After having a tire pop down the road I put some new shoes on her. 305/70/16. Changed the look of the truck if you ask me

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I used her everyday to pickup customer vehicles, or to run errands. She was my work truck. Finally I decided it was time for a makeover slowly but Surely. This was the last time I used her as the shop truck

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First thing first was I found a good dashboard to replace my broken one. This one was in mint condition. Color was different but no biggie as I was going to reupholster my entire interior

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Here is where I took it to an upholstery shop to choose the vinyl I wanted and start by wrapping my dash board

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Dashboard turned out to be extremely nice! I fell in love with how neat the wrap came to be

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I then took a sample of the vinyl to my local ppg supply and had them custom mix a SEM plastic paint to paint all my vents and panels that could not be wrapped. It turned out to be spot on with the vinyl. Took me 3 hrs of mixing paint to get it the right tint

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