Infantry Vets build thread

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Little late, but figured it would be a good idea to start.
Bought my 2010 ram 1500 with 6" rough country lift and 37" toyo MT mounted on 20x9 XD addicts.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Added ebay projector headlights and painted grille black

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Installed cheap ebay step bars and ebay pocket flares

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

installed Rockford T265s 6.5” front components and power 3 way 6x9s in rear doors and installed kicker KX650.4 amp

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Swapped painted bumper for chrome. New Plastic side pieces L+R are not needed. Steel bumper ones will suffice. Also be careful ordering an aftermarket impact bar. Mine did not come with brackets bolted on and holes drilled (hence why is not the plastic bumper absorber is not on the truck.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Swapped rear chrome bumper for painted dual exhaust bumper and magnaflow 14” cat back exhaust and smoked led tail lamps with built in led reverse lights.
Also installed smoked led 3rd brake light.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Spent 2 days using a grinder with a wire wheel and removing underbody rust. Then used self etching primer and spray can bedliner.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Installed Alpine X108U 8” radio and cut dash bezel to fit it.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Swapped out JL audio c2350x dash speakers for infinity 300m dash midranges and amplified them with a rockford 100rmsx2 puntch amp.
Also took dash pad off and ran a wire to center channel dash speaker and installed one of the JL C2350x speakers there

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Taped off and colormatched door handles, mirrors, and plastic antenna base. Rebadged, Wire wheeled the Rust off of my chinese ebay step bars and color matched them also.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Changed CV axle shafts that went bad at 120K and had to cut one off to get it out (Internal circlip was seized). Installed front new rotors and calipers.
Installed bilstein 5100 front struts and set them at 2.8”. Had to remove bottom strut control arm bushings (bolts snapped off). Figured might as well replace lower ball joints.
Factory front springs are completely sagged and truck now sits level with rear.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Yelled at my Taliban prisoner and tried out my new drill press. Lol.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Installed 38x13.50x20 nitto trail grapplers on 20x12 -44 V-Rock recoil wheels.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

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[2010 Infantry Vet]

Installed floor console and took out console shifter amd installed 2016 console insert. I have the column shifter. Truck is a 2010

 

[MarshRam]

Rigs looking good!!!

I just got ahold of front and rear bumpers yesterday to do that same bumper conversion you did. I can't wait to get them on, that looks so much better!

I'm guessing your still looking for new rims?

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Waiting to finish my mechanical drawing class, them im gonna fab up upper control arms with sealed uni ball joints amd sealed bushings where they mount to the body. I cant release specifics until patented...but they are the strongest made.
Balljoints if when needing replacement, can be done without removing the arms, and no press needed. Weld in sleeves that the bushings slide into.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

Rough sketch of upper control arms.

 

[2010 Infantry Vet]

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[2010 Infantry Vet]

Got my used factory turn signal mirrors painted and installed. Very happy with the way they turned out.