the life of Raiden (ramportin1's truck)

[ramportin1]

This. A sealed 10 or 12 in each dip and the amp{s} in the middle. All under the rear seat.

This is why I will not buy a new ram without ram boxes. I so badly wish I had them to store all my riding stuff and tie downs and chains and tow straps so that I could use the whole back storage for sub AND amp. But i can't live without that stuff and I have nowhere else to store it and I can't get any kind of boxes for my bed, not ever the tuck away ones because when I load 2 or many times 3 bikes every square inch of my bed is storage for gear and boots and gas etc etc. RAM boxes are a must next truck

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[Drunken Hamster]

This is why I will not buy a new ram without ram boxes. I so badly wish I had them to store all my riding stuff and tie downs and chains and tow straps so that I could use the whole back storage for sub AND amp. But i can't live without that stuff and I have nowhere else to store it and I can't get any kind of boxes for my bed, not ever the tuck away ones because when I load 2 or many times 3 bikes every square inch of my bed is storage for gear and boots and gas etc etc. RAM boxes are a must next truck

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But could you even GET 3 bikes and all the gas and boots and stuff in a 4ft wide space so all the rest could go in the ramboxes?

Also, if you need the underseat space, get the 1 12 in either dip, then do the fold down seat mod {actually, with the spacer to lift the seat for the sub clearance, you won't need to flip the hooks anymore} and mount the amp behind the seat on the back wall.

Or, if you don't care about rear passengers, maybe put another small fold up seat on the 60 side and put a 15" in a custom box in between with the sub mounted in the middle of the underseat portion, or, again, on the back wall.

 

[ramportin1]

But could you even GET 3 bikes and all the gas and boots and stuff in a 4ft wide space so all the rest could go in the ramboxes?

Also, if you need the underseat space, get the 1 12 in either dip, then do the fold down seat mod {actually, with the spacer to lift the seat for the sub clearance, you won't need to flip the hooks anymore} and mount the amp behind the seat on the back wall.

Or, if you don't care about rear passengers, maybe put another small fold up seat on the 60 side and put a 15" in a custom box in between with the sub mounted in the middle of the underseat portion, or, again, on the back wall.

Yeah 3 bikes will fit, it's a tight fit and you have to stagger them forward backwards forward but it fits.
As far as rear passengers I have two hellions of my own lol 11 and 6 so 1 car seat and one tall 11 year old, trucks already getting to small with the boys growing. Idk I'll figure it out when I start taking the interior apart, thanks for ideas though

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[ramportin1]

Managed to get all my door handle covers sanded down before the minions came yelling daddy daddy lol hopefully I can get time to a.p. and prime tomorrow

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[BEAST19]

How do u take those off?? I have chrome handles and want to atleast wrap mine.


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[ramportin1]

How do u take those off?? I have chrome handles and want to atleast wrap mine.


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Taking the chrome ones off without damaging will be a tedious task but definitely doable, I am replacing my factory chrome ones with these. So the factory ones are just held on by lots of strips of double sided tape. So same concept as debadging except to get em off with no damage you'll 0robably need heat or adhesive remover. Mine were 11 years old and still stuck on VERY well lol I bent the crap out of them pulling but I knew I was tossing mine so I didn't care

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[BEAST19]

Taking the chrome ones off without damaging will be a tedious task but definitely doable, I am replacing my factory chrome ones with these. So the factory ones are just held on by lots of strips of double sided tape. So same concept as debadging except to get em off with no damage you'll 0robably need heat or adhesive remover. Mine were 11 years old and still stuck on VERY well lol I bent the crap out of them pulling but I knew I was tossing mine so I didn't care

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They look awesome good job


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[ramportin1]

They look awesome good job


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Thanks man! Hopefully I can get time today to start spraying them

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[Drunken Hamster]

Thanks man! Hopefully I can get time today to start spraying them

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Thought you weren't going stormtrooper anymore?

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[ramportin1]

Thought you weren't going stormtrooper anymore?

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Lol it's a very hard change to go solid white! Damn I tried, I seriously tried to do it but I can't bring myself to go all in. So now I'm doing like a half and half lol I'm adding more white but then swapping other stuff to black. Who knows what I'll end up with [emoji23]

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[txdrifter1]

Ok let me start off by saying I am not usually real big on Mods/customizing my vehicles but dammit ramportin1 you made me late for work today reading your damn blog. Sure I told myself I would just read a couple pages and get caught up later. But noooo the work you have been doing kept my attention for over an hour until I finished the whole dang thing.
Your truck is looking great so far, keep up the good work, and have fun !

 

[ramportin1]

Ok let me start off by saying I am not usually real big on Mods/customizing my vehicles but dammit ramportin1 you made me late for work today reading your damn blog. Sure I told myself I would just read a couple pages and get caught up later. But noooo the work you have been doing kept my attention for over an hour until I finished the whole dang thing.
Your truck is looking great so far, keep up the good work, and have fun !

Lol. Well sorry about being late [emoji23] and thanks man that just made my day!! Quite a few projects going on with the truck right now so should be some pretty good updates here in the next couple of weeks [emoji41]

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[02ramboi]

So far so good lol


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[Drunken Hamster]

Lol it's a very hard change to go solid white! Damn I tried, I seriously tried to do it but I can't bring myself to go all in. So now I'm doing like a half and half lol I'm adding more white but then swapping other stuff to black. Who knows what I'll end up with [emoji23]

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White with black accents is sharp looking. Imo, stick with it, dude.

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[ramportin1]

White with black accents is sharp looking. Imo, stick with it, dude.

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I am. I am keeping my black bumper, new rear bumper is still at the powder coaters waiting to get that back and it'll be gloss black as well. Gunna change out all my lights eventually for black and black/white vs my white/blacks, and I'm painting my handles and mirrors white now [emoji108]

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[ramportin1]

Didn't get any spraying done today like I hoped but I did swap my tow mirrors for the regular stubbies. It's funny I used to really like the look of the stubs but after having my tows on for a while these look silly to me now lol. I'll start prepping the tows so I can paint everything at the same time.

Also said screw waiting any longer and ran to the store and picked up a card reader so as long as I can figure out how to work it [emoji23] I will have my exhaust and WOT video uploaded first thing tomorrow morning [emoji869]

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[02ramboi]

Lol stubby mirrors are so tiny lol our trucks are so big


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[Demon-HeMi]

Didn't get any spraying done today like I hoped but I did swap my tow mirrors for the regular stubbies. It's funny I used to really like the look of the stubs but after having my tows on for a while these look silly to me now lol. I'll start prepping the tows so I can paint everything at the same time.

there are only two kinds of mirrors for our trucks, tow mirrors and wrong mirrors

 

[02ramboi]

there are only two kinds of mirrors for our trucks, tow mirrors and wrong mirrors

You couldn’t have said that any better that’s as true as can be lol


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[ramportin1]

New cold start video with my new camera and it recorded it very well, gives a real good idea to what it sounds like in person