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25The truck is sporting a 6- to 10-inch Kelderman lift that gives
it the ride height it needs to pull that trailer without issue. Going
hand-in-hand with the lift is a built-in air system that has a 30-foot
hose reel taking the place of the spare tire that Jordan can use
to fill the air on any of the truck or trailer tires. “We only had one
alteration to do to make it fit with the Titan tank,” he says. “Other
than that, it was just bolt on. The engineering is second to none.”
Kelderman also provided the bumpers and grille inserts, as well
as a few other things throughout the truck to complete the look
Jordan was going for.
Project Long Haul is sitting on 35-inch Toyo Open Country tires
and 20-inch Fuel Cleaver wheels. All of the LED lighting around
the truck was provided by Black Oak LED, and Retro Customz did
the headlights and taillights, which include “fancy LED lights and
strobes,” as Jordan puts it. All of the wiring for the lights is routed
to a box that sits under the back seat. He says, “I installed all the
relays and fuses under the seat. All those cables are all the lights in
the truck. And if I want to add anything later on or whatever, it’s all
right there. It’s not this rat’s nest under the hood that you see on a
lot of other trucks.” A nice bonus of doing it that way is that he was
free to use the stock upfitter switches for his own purposes. “Later
on we added rock lights in the wheel wells, so we just put those on
one of the upfitter switches,” he says. He also added a custom plate
that sits up above the visor that controls all of the exterior lights.
Elsewhere on the truck, you’ll find front and rear tow hooks as
well as an exhaust tip from Monster Hooks, custom differential and
pan covers from PML Covers, a DeeZee in-bed tool box and gate
assist, and ACE Engineering power running board steps.COMPLEMENTARY SERVICE
By now you’ve noticed how well everything on the truck fits
together from a visual perspective. The credit for that goes to a
local shop called CJ’s Automotive Customs. According to Jordan,
“He pretty much put this whole truck together. Every bit of me-
chanical work outside of motor work was done by him.” All of the
components underneath the truck that really pop and stand out
would normally be the kind of thing you powdercoat, but Jordan
says they went in a different direction for this build. “That’s actually