2012 2500 All Show No Go

Figured I'd try and post some pictures of my truck since I got it in 2014. The truck was previously used as a work truck for one of the owners of a tree service company. It's a Big Horn edition with the optional Luxury Group package.

While she was stock and stock-ish before lifting and whatnot. Just tinted with a light bar and leveling kit with 35s.





I started out with my truck as wanting something big and rowdy (I was 20 when I bought it and still wanting to fit in with the truck crowd). So I went with 37" mud grapplers on a half ass powder coated 6" ProComp long arm lift with the leveling kit on top and some RBP black 22x12s.



It was definitely "big and rowdy". Tires rubbed when I turned and the track bar was in a bind at all times due to the extra lift from the leveling kit. I ended up making some new friends in the automotive world and they really helped me realize that what I had was not the style I wanted. So over the next year I began to restart on my truck.

I started with painting all of the factory black plastics to match my truck. I cleared (removed reflectors) my headlights, swapped to 2013+ Laramie tail lights, tore apart my entire suspension and sent the coil springs to get powder coated again while I brought everything down to bare metal and repainted the suspension components with nice gloss white and did a high flake metallic silver on the steering components while replacing all bushings, bearings, and balljoints along the way. While I had everything off the truck, I cleaned and painted my entire frame and both axle housings with rustoleum satin black and cleared it with the matte clear coat.

Shortly after, I did a full EGR and DPF delete with Sinister EGR Delete and Flo-Pro 4" TBE with an H&S MiniMaxx programmer.



I'm now sitting happily on some 33x12.50 Toyo M/Ts with 22x14 chrome Fuel Throttles. I still have a lot of upgrades to go, but I figured I'd post some of my progress so far.







2012 2500 CCSB Big Horn 6.7L 4x4.
6" ProComp Long Arm Powder Coated White with Silver Accents Throughout.
ProComp ProRunner Shocks.
ProComp ProRunner Dual Stabilizers.33x12.50x22 Toyo Open Country M/T's.
22x14 Chrome Fuel Throttles.
Fully Deleted with MiniMax Tuner and Flo-Pro 4" TBE Dumped Behind Rear Axle With 10" Pypes Tip.
Katzkin Dark Graphite Leather.
Two 10" Alpine Type-R Subs Under Rear Seat In Vented FoxBox Enclosure.
Hifonics 2500w Zeus Mono Amplifier.
5% Tint Over Factory Tint.
30% Windshield Tint and 5% Brow.
Completely DeBadged Besides Tailgate Emblem and Grille Emblem.
Cleared Quad Headlights.
OPT7 LED High and Low Headlight Bulbs.
Switchback LED Turn Signals.
2013+ Laramie LED Taillights.
Color Matched All Factory Black Plastics and Front/Rear Emblems.
Probably Forgetting Other Things.

That's a brodozer for sure!!


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My pride and joy. I do often get called that though hahaha.

Codydoss said:

My pride and joy. I do often get called that though hahaha.

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Looks good

Edit - the black wheels stage, didn't see the last two pictures.

However each to their own [emoji1303]

Nice truck, love it

Thanks guys. Much appreciated!

Not my style but hey it's your truck, cheers.

Wow

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I'm glad it is not my truck.

put it back!

I'm pretty glad that it's my truck. I've done everything to this truck myself. All put together with my two hands. Couldn't be more proud [emoji1]

Needs bigger tires. Looks like you missed leg day


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Then people couldn't see my suspension [emoji849]

yall are ******, thought we respected builds around here? lol

Hemipower392 said:

yall are ******, thought we respected builds around here? lol

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[emoji1360] that's what I'm saying. More than 75% of the trucks on this forum aren't what I like, but I always give credit where it's due.

Believe it or not, I actually get comments in person quite often. Online, it's a wholllllllle different story lol

Codydoss said:

[emoji1360] that's what I'm saying. More than 75% of the trucks on this forum aren't what I like, but I always give credit where it's due.

Believe it or not, I actually get comments in person quite often. Online, it's a wholllllllle different story lol

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Exactly, half the trucks out here I don't like but we put our own money into our own trucks to our liking. So why tf would my negative opinion matter? haha JS

Nice looking truck. But watch out for pot holes


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I do my best to stay away from them. Potholes are nothing compared to raised curbs. Those are the real enemy.

I'm just tired of seeing the same trucks but with different owners. Half of the trucks I see are covered in plastidip, eBay brand accessories, and decals.

I wanted to build something different than the forum or anyone local would see on an average day. Something that makes me stand out a little bit and give me something to call mine. If you guys hate mine, you'd probably hate my best friends old 3rd gen although his tires were larger..

Looks like you've put a lot of hardwork into to make it the way you want. I think it's a clean build!

Solid State said:

Looks like you've put a lot of hardwork into to make it the way you want. I think it's a clean build!

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Thanks! I appreciate it. Definitely a lot of work but it definitely makes it worth it when someone in traffic pulls their sunglasses down to take a good look at everything under the truck. Definitely worth it.