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all a coating called Raptor UPOL. It’s like a Line-X product, so it’s
a little more durable than powder coat and it can be touched up
really easy. The cool thing about it is if anything does get scuffed
up or chipped off, I just drive over to CJ’s and he hits it again and
it’s good as new. With powdercoat, you have to pull the whole part
off. We wanted something that was going to take a beating on the
road for a long time. Things go wrong and nothing’s bulletproof,
right? So something that was easily fixed was nice.” The color
scheme Jordan went with is a really nice balance of highlighting
key components with the ice blue color that’s prevalent on the rest
of the truck, while leavening the standout nature of that color with
a nice neutral silver color elsewhere. Of course, that same theme
extends to the wrap on both the truck and trailer, which ArcticFX
did themselves, with the vinyl supplied by Wensco Sign Supply.
One really neat thing about the truck is the ArcticFX emblems
on the radius arms. “CJ was thinking we should do something
with that because we didn’t know what to do,” Jordan says. “He
has a plasma cutter and made a two-part plate and coated them.
He then mapped out the shape of that radius arm and made a
plate that would fit in there.” The resulting plate looks so nice on
the radius arms that Kelderman is actually producing their ownversion. “It’s neat that they liked it so much they added it!” Jordan
says with a laugh.
There’s a tuner mounted to the left of the steering wheel that
might look a little odd, since it appears to be a smartphone. “That
is a phone, but it’s also the tuner,” he says. “It’s working great; I
love it. It’s called Auto Agent Easy Link. It’s new for the Fords.” It’s a
tune that you load up through the OBD port, but there’s a box that
permanently plugs into the truck’s OBD port and gives off a WiFi
signal that then links up to your phone. The app lets you view all
the gauges and everything else you might want to know, such as
pressure, fuel rail pressure, RPMs, and more. There’s also a 5-posi-
tion switch that allows you to switch your tunes more quickly than
going into the app to do so.FINISHING TOUCH
Finally, there’s one more thing this truck has going for it, and
it’s not even on the truck itself: the fifth wheel trailer has its own
Kelderman air suspension on it. It works in tandem with the leaf
springs and hooks up with all the electrical hookups in the truck.
Jordan is very excited about it. “Not too many people are running
around with a fifth wheel airbag system, and I tell you what, itLONG HAUL
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