'04 F-250 Progress Tracker...

agjake11

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Sold the f150 the first wek of June 2011 and got this one later that week. It's a 2004 f250 lariat fx4 psd. Wanted to move up to a crew cab but still have a real bed. Ended up in a diesel for the price. Truck was a buyback at 36k miles due to a leaking up pipe. I bought it at 169k miles and still stock engine wise.

Truck only had aftermarket wheels when I bought it.

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First mod was to install my painted 08 sd taillights and then cruise out to the beach.

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Next up was a radio. Budgeted it in when looking at trucks and got myself a pioneer 4300dvd

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Started my new Job on July 5th the same day I did the radio delete mod

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I then promptly bought some new handles and put on 4 rear door handles so no more key holes and lock cylinders.

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Then I took a few shots with the Tahoe I bought for the wife

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I had always liked kmc xd hoss wheels and my current wheels had too much offset and were rubbing the leafs even with some spacers up front. So. I found a set and put them on with the crappy goodyears. Also put the newer style 05-07 lights on and they made a nice difference.

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2 of the current tires were trashed so I got a pair pretty cheap off craigslist to get me by for a while.

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I then found a good deal on a newer dash from an 06 lariat to replace the broken one.

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I purchased an edge insight CTS about the same time to monitor things like egt and eot v ect. And some weather tech floor mats from 4wp on sale and a new steering stabilizer

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As you can see in the last 2 pics above I was having an issue with my ect v eot meaning my oil cooler was bad. Womp womp womp. Well it was time to replace it and do an egr delete. I ended up winning a free egr delete from a new vendor promo when they started on powerstroke.org and I bought a cooler and few other parts such as a coolant filter etc from vendors and ford.

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Then had a Ford master diesel tech go to town on the truck

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Healthy running again I had my tuner going and I was good for a while. Until I found a deal on an 08 tailgate in mostly my color.

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The next morning I got hit again. Had a punk kid bust the back window slider and steal nothing. I was then forced to install a new window and decided to go power slider vs manual and it turns out I got the newer style window also from an 08+ truck. (no rubber gasket around the window). Truck was all prewired just plug and play.

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Re: 04 F-250 Progress Tracker....

Next up was some new Taires. Wanted a wider tire that was just slightly shorter and they would have rubbed bad on the current hoss wheels. Got a sweet package deal at 4wp and some falkens and fuel wheels got installed. 20x10 -24mm and 305/55/20. And found a cheap 08 rear bumper minus the sensors.

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Sold my old wheels to a guy I knew in Houston and got his 06 king ranch door panels and switches as partial trade. But needed a new mirror switch pigtail (see last pic)

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Old chitty tires

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Finally was able to find a 05-07 front end and promptly installed it event though tit was black

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As luck would have it I was able to get a bumper the same night I installed the black one that was already ptm and some newer seats that were a little better shape than my current ones

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Ended up getting the rear bumper installed and the ’11 fx4 decals

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After these pics the tailgate was replaced so it could go into paint and some warn premium hubs were installed to replace the sticking auto hubs (had vac leak so auto didn’t work)

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Decided to try out an aftermarket radio again with a minor theft deterrent also

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Then came some new style fender badges that installed just like factory with the alignment hole matching and all

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That brings us to last night when this showed up

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Deconstructed and cleaned

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To be installed soon. Should have more updates soon and guess will use this thread for those also. Paint should be done this coming weekend.
 

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Re: 04 F-250 Progress Tracker....

had to try and consolidate the number of threads i make since ive been doing so much recently :cheers:
 

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Re: 04 F-250 Progress Tracker....

That sucks about the holes behind the F-250 badge. It would look really clean without the chicklet.
 

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Re: 04 F-250 Progress Tracker....

How do you like that Pioneer unit? Pretty badass?
 

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