Crazycrew's 2017 Sierra Mod Thread

[BADRIDES]

So, I hadn't posted any updates in a while!

I've since put painted gm wheel arches, swapped out the door handles and mirror caps for painted ones and I put on a bakflip tonneau cover that I scored free from a buddy, yep, FREE.

Shined up the ole hag this morning too!

The new painted items make a world of difference, especially the wheel arches. That is one clean and simple looking truck.

 

[crazycrew]

The new painted items make a world of difference, especially the wheel arches. That is one clean and simple looking truck.

Thanks man. That's exactly what I was aiming for!

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[crazycrew]

Now to decide to demold the doors?? I kinda dig the painted moldings. (mine are currently chrome) hard to tell in the pic.

And how about the window belts? Paint match em? Wrap em black? Get the black oem ones?? [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

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[Rocket Man]

Decisions decisions...

 

[PG01]

Leave on and chrome, ties in from grill and bumper but maybe pm window belts. Also are door handles pm’d or chrome? Maybe pm them. Jmo
Looks good dude

 

[crazycrew]

Leave on and chrome, ties in from grill and bumper but maybe pm window belts. Also are door handles pm’d or chrome? Maybe pm them. Jmo
Looks good dude

Handles are bc, and I'll eventually get the bumpers and grilles painted also.

Thanks

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[iamdub]

Something so simple made a nice difference. Looks great!

I'd leave the mouldings as-is until you paint the bumpers and grille and focus your efforts and doll hairs towards 22s or 24s.

It's hard to fall one way or the other, but I'm leaning towards blacking out the window wipers. After staring at your side shot until cross-eyed, I feel that paint matching them would bring that body line too high and make the windows look slightly short, kinda like a Camaro. It's only slight, and it may look better to you, so I'd say Photoshop it both ways or just wrap your stock ones so you can revert if you don't like it. Maybe use electrical tape and step back to get a visual.

 

[crazycrew]

Here's a little update! Put the trekline struts set at 1" upfront and put the stock shackle out back. So, upfront I'm struts and spindles and out back I'm flip with hangar and stock shackle. Essentially 3/6, but I need shorter shocks so the rear comes down a little more.

Also scored the deal of a lifetime on some oe 22s. Guy said the tires had about 20 k on em, but I believe it was actually less than that. Ceramic coated em and mounted em up. Now I need to get a fresh alignment. No pulling or anything, juts got some camber that I wanna fix so it doesn't eat up the tires.

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[Fosscore]

Here's a little update! Put the trekline struts set at 1" upfront and put the stock shackle out back. So, upfront I'm struts and spindles and out back I'm flip with hangar and stock shackle. Essentially 3/6, but I need shorter shocks so the rear comes down a little more.

Also scored the deal of a lifetime on some oe 22s. Guy said the tires had about 20 k on em, but I believe it was actually less than that. Ceramic coated em and mounted em up. Now I need to get a fresh alignment. No pulling or anything, juts got some camber that I wanna fix so it doesn't eat up the tires.

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Yes!! Like the wheels! Complements very nice.

 

[NathanJax]

Looks good!

 

[Rocket Man]

Very nice.

 

[07Burb]

Love this truck, man!

 

[crazycrew]

Thanks guys. Thinking of wrapping the pillars next. Wish I knew how to do it, lol.

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[Sam Harris]

Love the truck man! It looks great!

 

[crazycrew]

Bling a ling for the weekend!

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[crazycrew]

Ok, since I've bought the truck, it had a cracked grill. Well, iny infinite facebox marketplace surfing I found and scored a very good shape oem grill exactly like mine. Traded him a Milwaukee 3/8 impact that I hardly used (I have mostly ridgid tools and batteries).

Now time to disassemble it!

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[07Burb]

Are ya doin' some colormatchin'?

 

[crazycrew]

Are ya doin' some colormatchin'?

At some point, yes! Figured I'd soak the chrome pieces in muriatic acid to strip em, that way when it gets painted it'll be easier on them and possibly cheaper for me [emoji2369][emoji23][emoji23]

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[Rocket Man]

At some point, yes! Figured I'd soak the chrome pieces in muriatic acid to strip em, that way when it gets painted it'll be easier on them and possibly cheaper for me [emoji2369][emoji23][emoji23]

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I bought some of that but my NBS Denali grill chrome piece needed a container so big it would have taken about 50 gallons to cover it. Yours looks a bit smaller.

 

[crazycrew]

I bought some of that but my NBS Denali grill chrome piece needed a container so big it would have taken about 50 gallons to cover it. Yours looks a bit smaller.

Yeah, I just measured it. Bout 44" at the widest point. Gonna look for one of those under bed storage containers to use for the soak

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