Recent content by DougRuth Davenport

I removed mine, disassembled all the plastic parts on them, sanded them down, treated them with rust inhibitor, primed them and gave them one coat of brush on bed liner from JC WHITNEY and let them dry, reassembled them completely and then finished up with the brush on bed liner over the whole...

Static Balancing is using a bubble ballancer, which is a device you lay the tire/wheel assembly on the balancer which usually has air applied to it and a sight glass with a bubble in it, the arrow on the sight glass needs to be pointing at the valve stem, then weights are placed around the...

Sorry for the late response, been very busy here. No remote starter, doesn't seem to happen with the other key however now it isn't doing it at all anymore, go figure!!!!!

I've got them and I love them. Sales person told me the difference in the molding process for these and said they are less likely to be "out of round" as my old ones were.

Question, since it has gotten colder here the last couple days, when I start my truck first time in the morning the "Theft Light" flashes for about the first mile, Why is that?

Mike,just use a screwdriver and they pry right off, for the end caps look on the underside of them and they are Hollow and are supported by steel held on with 2 nuts each.

I did the project for cleaning the IAC on my "01-job 1" Sport Trac and mine didn't look like the one pictured and it was not closed. Mine had a narrow stem with a spring showing in the bottom chamber when viewing with the electrical connection up and the top chamber just had the stem going...

After reading on here people weren't having much luck painting them because they would still rust, I took mine off, tore them apart, sanded them good, treated them with a spray on rust inhibitor, primed them, and used Brush on bed liner from J.C. Whitney. I used 1 coat on the bars only, then...

STanner; Are you saying the bigger tires can cause this and also wear out the shocks? I put on the next size bigger tires and new Monroe shocks, I get the vibration over 80mph. and I don't want to wear out the shocks. Mind you I don't drive over 80mph often but i'm just asking?

I don't post often but follow this site every day and have asked many questions of theese fine folks here. I purchased my "01" Trac about 1 1/2 years ago with 61,000 miles, used. I Imeadiately had the tranny flushed after reading on this site and I now have 87,000 trouble free miles on it and I...