A year later. Still enjoying it. My wife even takes the boys in it when I’m out of town, which was kinda the goal—that it’d be usable enough she’d enjoy it. Zero problems in the past year. The old door handles and latches seem to always be in need of ether lube or more muscle, but I suppose that’s h...

:shock: Wow, what a great truck! Nice work! I really like the look of the outside. I spent hundreds of hours painting mine. Still, it isn't even close to a show car finish. I cannot fathom what it'd cost to get one of these to a modern paint finish, especially considering the rust going on there. Lo...

I used the plastic inner fenders that came with my 08 crown vic. I couldn't really see a way to make the original steel inner fender wells work. There is certainly a way, but there'd be not much of them left at all. I bolted the plastic fender wells to the underside of the fenders using long bolts w...

Any updates? Here's a photo from this morning after a drive with my 3 and 6 year old boys. 8500 miles on it now. Drive it to work quite a bit, haul my mountain bike to races around Southern AZ. I've taken it cross country out of state twice. Taken my boys to the donut shop dozens of times. It's jus...

my wheel patches have started to crack. :oops: as I suspected might happen, the edges of the filler to the wheel. I know wheels flex a bit, but it's more than I thought. took several hundred miles, but there are very small cracks now right at the edge of the filler. It's only on the front wheels so ...

Justind wrote:are those 16s or 17s?

justin, mine are the stock 2008 crown vic police interceptor 17x7.5 wheels. the ones that have 10 holes per wheel.

Steve i like the mini moon cap a lot! that looks great. I'm looking around for something in a similar size to that one that says "ford" on it. Seems like Model B wire wheel center caps from the 30s might be just about right. I don't think I can use those push through center caps on my car ...

I want to ask...what did you use to weld up the holes in your Crown Vic wheels? They look great btw. I want to do the same to mine...10 oval holes per wheel times four wheels....whew! That's a lot of welding. steve, I hesitate to say this, figure a thousand people will tell me how wrong this is. I ...

came out nice, had the tires installed today.

He used push through center caps...like these.... He then installed a bolt through the middle of the 'push through' caps and then drilled a small hole in the hubcap and used a chrome acorn nut to hold the hub-cap to the wheel. If you look closely in the close-up pic, you will note the acorn nut on ...

orangeRcode wrote:How are those hubs held on the dodge wheels?

Yes, how?

I saw in another thread this was from slick Facebook. I prowled arOund there for an hour trying To find it to see how this was done. I've got a couple ideas for attaching them, but I'd like to know how this one was done.

Thanks!

Wheels are coming along. I tried white, it wasn't for me. They'll be black. Got a set of hubcaps as well, but I don't like them. I may keep looking, maybe a spider cap, none, or a small moon cap. Maybe some 46 ford caps...?

do you think it will make them hard to balance? I had thought about doing the same thing but thought it may mess up the balance of the wheel. I don't think so, but that is a good point. It'll be easy to use some scales and "corner balance" the wheel before I have a tire mounted. I can use...

Just a suggestion...although the wheels look great in black, a cream color on the wheels would really pop with the green paint. I like your idea of covering the holes on the wheels for a smoothie look. I am running 17 inch Dodge Ram wheels on my '64 and I have thought about welding 'plugs' into the...

also, gotta do something about the exhaust. I cannot hear it at all, pretty sure I can hear the power steering pump over either the motor or exhaust. It doesn't need to be straight pipe loud, but at least audible. did something about this too. added dynomax universal fit mufflers. they look like gl...

12363 12366 my bike rack! bolted a Yakima high roller into the bed, shown here with a Trek Top Fuel 9.9SL easily worth more than this truck. I've been letting my bikes bang around in the bed for the last 6 months, figured it was time for something better. neat because it folds flat and totally out ...

12360 12359 12358 12362 12361 235 55 17 tires up front 245 65 17 in the rear. barely fits, but I think it'll work. I never cared much for the bullitt wheels, but they were cheap and other people liked them. guess they were ok. I put black tape over the holes in the wheels, to make a sort of smoothi...

my new stance idea. the stock CVPI wheels, modded a bit.

it's a little tough to tell from the image, since the wheel and tire black are so similar. I dig it in real life though, this is much better.

12353 12352 12349 I finally installed the stereo into the glove box as well. My wired remote beneath the seat is great--that remote combined with bluetooth means I really never have to look at the head unit in the glove box at all. I'm having lots of fun with the truck as my daily driver. it cruise...

over 4,000 miles on the build now. it's great! finally got around to installing the OEM style cardboard headliner. I was dreading it, but it turned out to be easy. I wet the parts to be curved well with a spray bottle. Then, my brother and I each pushed a side up while I screwed in a few screws to h...