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Decided to let the stain dry for today so I can start sealing it up tomorrow. Today's project was putting new bearings and races in my dad's boat trailer. Also took apart both bearing buddies and put some fresh grease in everything. After packing the wheel bearings, I grabbed my great grandpa's grease gun off the wall and pulled it apart to put the new tube of grease in. I found the old tube of Alemite grease that he put in well before my time
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My father used to hand-pack his grease gun too. When he downsized and it (and all his stuff) became mine and it needed re-filling, I showed him the easy button of just shoving in a new tube. Works awesome now.
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Got the first coat of sealer down on the bottom side this morning before the rain showed up. Hopefully can get a second coat on in a few hours
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Old stuff is real good.....just Andy and myself..lol
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Got a second coat of sealer on the bottom side this evening. Lookin' shiny!
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Looks really good Christian!#!
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HAHAHAHA Now that made me literally laugh out loud! Thanks John!
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Thanks John! Got 2 coats of sealer on the top side today. Going to put some more coats on tomorrow
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I'm still waiting on the Spar Urethane to dry up.
Today's task was figuring out why the turn signals on my Dakota blinked too fast only when a trailer was hooked up. Turns out the "HD" flasher I bought wasn't up to the task. The factory hazard flasher worked perfectly though, and then I found out the trucks that came with the towing package also used the hazard flasher for the turn signal flasher. Hooked up dad's atv trailer and drove out to the deer camp to check on cameras and ride around on dad's atv. 2 atvs would be even more fun though
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You could come get my ATV if you like . Still cant get out of Pink on here , Im going to FaceBook to try to locate parts as I cant place an ad here .
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Thanks John, we might be going to look at one tomorrow morning. I'll go bug Liz again for ya
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Took me 13 days to pull the wood out, sand it smooth, stain it, seal it, and re-install it, but I finally got it back together yesterday before heading back to Milledgeville for classes to start back later this week.
My dad helped me out by holding the bolts up top while I was rolling around underneath sticking the washers on and tightening all the nuts. I am extremely happy with how it turned out, but I have already been thinking about what wood I'll be using for when I do the full restoration. I've been thinking about using some Black Walnut next time. I mentioned this to my dad after we got everything back together, and he said that the old, family farm up in Toccoa has several black walnut trees to choose from. I'm thinking I'll probably use one of those trees to have a piece of the farm still around if we end up having to sell it. Anyways, I'm back at school now and took the Dakota because it has AC and I didn't want to sweat a bunch while driving around. Frankentruck is just chilling back at home for a bit until it cools off some down here
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Looks great Christian. Good job!
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Nice!
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Wow that finish on the wood works with that truck very well. Good job
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I agree...the stain color goes with your truck perfectly.
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Now you know you cant restore Frankentruck,,,,It has its own cult following now!!!!
I agree the bed wood fits PERFECT with your truck.
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Your bed looks great. I agree that it goes with the truck.
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Well, I haven't been able to do anything with Frankentruck because of the 2+ hour, long distance relationship we are going through at the moment
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Congrats Christian , you will go far and so will FrankenTruck , My favorite build to follow . This year has Sucked in many ways but it has its good points .Got to take the bad with the good and hope next year is better all the way around , and I believe it will be a good year .
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Awesome Christian...very proud of you.
As 2020 has revealed itself to be not so nice, Im reminded of all the good things, focusing not on the bad but trying to focus on the good......kinda,like your news...... My mom always use to tell me that its not about dodging the storm, its about dancing in the rain. Im glad our lil group chooses to dance in the rain
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Congrats Christian...Wise choice to get your grad degree now.
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