Finally removed my xreas after over a year. The lines were just hanging loose. Removed my side steps so the wife hates me now and also put on some 5th gen trail wheels.

Bought my '07 SE in October 2014 with 95,700 on the odometer and just passed 195,700 so I have 100K+ miles of ownership. Must say I've enjoyed every mile as this is my favorite of all the vehicles I've owned.

Also replaced the parking lamps* with LEDs (194A) since one had gone out. Pretty sure they were the stock bulbs from the look of them so I'll give it a pass since it lasted 13+ years (my truck was built in Sep 2006).

* The way auto manufacturers use such formal, old school terms like "lamps" has always been funny to me.

i had been hording my power stop z36 brake kit for a few months hoping to knock it out at the same time i put my new wheels on. Well, the wheels have been delayed once more until the end of December so knocked them out before winter gets too bad. While I was in there I cleaned up my differential and a lot of weld spots on the frame. No major rust anywhere other than those weld spots and gas tank skid which i need to drop and replace the straps on anyway. Now just waiting on my bronze FN five stars and BXBuilt headlights with quad projectors and quad halos i snagged for a crazy deal on black friday. As far as the brakes go and being my first brake job it was fairly simple, until i got to bleeding to front driver side caliper. I noticed brake fluid flooding out of the caliper itself where the two pieces meet at the seem, no bueno. I called power stop Friday at 3:30 i got two new calipers and a full set of brake pads(which i can keep) at 10:15am saturday. Crazy good customer service. The brakes are great, smooth, effective and clearly pretty. We shall see how they hold up down the line.

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Finally took some time to paint the rear door that was fixed and primered some months back along with all the plastic trim around that was faded bad from spending most of its 17 years in Florida.

Neighbors looked at me pretty funny..

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oh yeah, when will you get pics of this?

I opened up my aftermarket radio install and actually used wire nuts to reconnect all the wires. Original owner just wrapped the wires together and used electrical tape. I was getting dashboard warning lights and glitches in the radio and had to pull the fuse on a trip this week.

I was about to remove my Daystar level kit, but got to the lower front strut bolt and the bushing is frozen to the bolt. Hammered until the end started to splay out and no budge. So i'll wait until the KYB quick struts are shot and cut them out in 50k miles or so.

Looks very good!

What brand paint did you use and where did you buy...did you use spray cans or paint gun, did you do a clear coat after color coat?

How much paint did you use?

What brand of paint did you use and how did you spray it? Looks like you did a great job laying down the metallic flake to get it match well.

looks good. Ive done some weird shit in my driveway, including painting an area on the inside lip of the hatch, so I know the looks you're talking about

Not to rain on your parade, just looking out, but wire nuts are not for vehicle use and you may end up with problems again down the road. They're made for solid core wire and a static environment.

ATX paint, I can look up to see what paint code exactly I used, they have quite a bit of variants that pull up under my cars paint code, but we went with the default and it matched pretty close.

I bought it from a local sherwin williams auto supply store where the shop my brother works out sources a lot of their stuff. I bought 2 quarts and thus far sprayed out 1 entire can using 1:1 reducers. I had JUST enough I feel like to cover the trim (excluding the front bumper) and the entire rear gate in about 3-4 coats.

and it was definitely sprayed with a gun, I've gone the spray can route before and it is harder, longer, more expensive and not even worth the comparison result wise..

I sprayed 1 light coat of clear and about 2-3 (depending on the area) heavy wet coats that were wet enough to ALMOST have some runs so that it flowed out nice.

Thanks! It was my 3rd-ish paint project.. so I'm getting half decent at it.

I used ATX paint and need to look up what brand clear.. it was all medium-grade stuff. Not Finish1 or anything like that, but definitely not the cheap stuff. All sourced from Sherwin Williams Automotive locally.

Not today but Saturday I oiled the inside and outside of my frame using an undercoating gun. I'm curious to see how it looks after winter. Hopefully does the job or the life of this trucks frame will only be another year or two.

My first iteration of the projector upgrade wasn't really good, and I stripped my adjustment screw while aiming the lights so im onto headlight build 2.0 now.

Since the acme projectors have a built in solenoid for the high beam all in one housing the oem hi beam location was free... and ...well you see.. what happened was a late night impulse purchase..

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Been working on this for about a week. All thats left is drilling and tapping the holes for the latch before I retrieve the bumper, add mudflaps to the bumper, mount the license plate, and run the wires for the lighting.

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