There will be pics!
She is going through detail exterior and interior. We shampooed the carpet yesterday it was 22 degrees at the car wash, hung it up next to wood stove to dry

I restored the headlights/ corner lights with some buffing polish and several buffer wheels, came out really nice.

The 2006 side mirrors are installed
The 2006 tail lights are going on, the 3 bulb to 2 bulb adapter came in the mail, $20!!
Tires are shipped, front end parts will be here tomorrow

Both doors have been gone through, cleaned and lubed window tracks, door latches and firmed up the door open handles. Everything works!
instrument cluster has been removed, I need to move the tachometer wire from the V6 position to the v8 position and replace any bad bulbs.

This truck had HID headlights and fog lights, I removed all that wiring rats nest and returned it to stock, we will use high quality silvania bulbs instead of HID.

front end is torn down waiting for new explorer live axle setup

Truck has seen two coats of wax already, deep cleaner wax to remove all oxidation. Large stone chips were picked clean, cleaned to bare metal, cleaned, dried and then several coats of touch up paint to bring them up to the same level as stock paint

All black trim is being treated with mothers back to black. The front bumper is being prepped for paint, the grill and front bumper will be color matched. Rear bumper is already aftermarket and in very good shape.

This 98 is cleaning up really really well
I'm very happy with this truck!
Next week tires then I get to road test!!!

06 power mirrors


Shop is a little dirty right now please forgive but this gives you an idea of whats going on here


there is a silver sport trac way on the other end also getting a 5.0 so right now we have 3ea 5.0 conversions, one in each bay

1998 paint doing very very well


stone chips fix


bulb converter:

Last edited on Sun Dec 1st, 2019 10:51 am by 410customs