Dakota's build thread

Dakota

Dat Static 4wd
Mar 12, 2012
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Well I bought the truck August of 2011 after my obs decided to give in on me.
-2003 extended cab short bed lt 4x4 z71
-5.3 v8
-all power leather interior

The day I bought it
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In the next few days I debadged it and removed the z71
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Then decided to plasti dip my center grill bar, got some painted mirror caps and threw in some tinted tails I had
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Kept it like this for a little while and decided I wanted to lower it, so i started getting parts together.
the plan was to do decranked keys up front with shackles and hangers out back.
While I was getting my parts together I decided to get some rims so i bought a set of 22s
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By this time I had my shackles and hangers, so one day i decided to go ahead and pull the z71 blocks and out the shackles on
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Then i found a deal on Craigslist for a fiberglass gaylords bed cover for $250, I talked to the guy and offered him $150 and he took it! So i picked it up that night
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I began debating on whether I wanted to do the hangers or go lower, so i just decided to take the dive and ordered mcgaughys flip and notches and some mcgaughys 17+ 2" spindles
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Me and my dad tore the rear end down one day and I got to work cutting and drilling, wanting to finish it that day
And we did (well almost)
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The next day we put the bed back on and i put in some 2500 keys and decranked and threw on some factory 17s I picked up for $200, this is how it was at the dallas meet
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On that following Sunday we did the spindles and a little more colormatching
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Added colormatched handles
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Then did black bowtie and mesh
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Put the 22s back on rubbing like crazy
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And as it sits now, traded my 22s for some ltz 20s and debadged them
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Somewhere in there I put a blowmaster and an ebay Cai on
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Will be updating as more mods are done
 
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Thanks man, future plans are
full boltons right now and eventually a lq9/80e swap
Helpers
Maybe some interior work(black suede,carpet and maybe some paint)
And more colormatching
Maybe more later on
 
Definitely at its best stage right now. Were the black things on your center caps stickers? Iv been undecided on taking mine off for over a year now lol
 
yep there kinda like badges if i was going to the meet it probably trade you i liked it back when mine was the only one like that now theres quite a few lol
 
Yea the gold part was painted but the rest just peeled off then I got some paint stripper to get the gold and a little black that was still on there
 
Definitely at its best stage right now. Were the black things on your center caps stickers? Iv been undecided on taking mine off for over a year now lol

I Tried taking mine off and it was happening. I have a clear over them. I'm going try his tips though when I can and see if I can peel it off.
 
Yea mine had a clear kinda hard plastic like thing over them but once I made an edge with a razor blade it peeled right off and took most of the black with it
 
I've decided your not allowed to come over here. I can't have you over here stuntin on me. Lol