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03-13-2015, 10:47 PM | #1 |
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with the forecast expecting 80* in sunny Kalifornia this weekend it was time to prep the replacement used fender for a coat of green
so I washed it, wire wheeled the rust off of it (as much as I could) and coated it with primer over the raw metal spots before tucking it in for the night |
03-13-2015, 11:37 PM | #2 |
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Hey Greg sorry to interrupt the painting but is this the same z bar bushings that you got from summit, I found these at the autozone, they call them help/clutch linkage bushing
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03-13-2015, 11:50 PM | #3 |
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No sir, these are not it, do not buy this stuff. This is for transmission linkage for some other car. I bought this thinking that I can use one of them for the clutch pedal hole that accepts the push rod that goes down through the floor, but it did not work, I ended up smashing it with a mallet and it just shattered, its the thing in the top hole in this pic, the white looking thing
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03-13-2015, 11:54 PM | #4 |
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Ok gotcha. when are you going to write a book of knowledge
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03-14-2015, 11:58 AM | #5 |
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lets git sum paint
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03-14-2015, 03:25 PM | #6 |
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since we have to paint both sides of this front fender (or at least the upper half of the inside, the part that shows above the wheel well) I hope 3 cans of paint plus a third semi flat will do
$70 bucks but this is a factory color match to spec (sort of crazy as our original paint had 40 years to fade and flatten out) but hey IT'S A TRUCK! |
03-14-2015, 03:30 PM | #7 |
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after owning 3 Harbor Freight angle grinders, it was time to treat myself to one that works, I am no name brand jockey but this DeWalt is nice
the first of the Harbor Freight ones the Orange kind lasted me 3 years, the new redish style ones are terrible, the second one of the red ones broke on day one, that button you push in to remove or put on the wheel broke on the inside, these are junk (surprise) |
03-14-2015, 03:39 PM | #8 | |
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03-14-2015, 03:43 PM | #9 |
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Yup, my wife got me a Makita cordless drill over 20 years ago and I manage to have dropped it a couple times off of patio covers and second story balconies an stair cases on to concrete and she takes a lickin' and keeps on ... drillin'
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03-14-2015, 03:56 PM | #10 |
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As Cordless's goes I would not use anything but Makita. I had one that I used at work dropped it off hoists, cars, into drain pans totally soaking it in ATF etc. and it never gave up. The only reason I retired it was batteries were dying and replacements were hard to find and expensive.
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03-14-2015, 03:44 PM | #12 |
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$70 bucks but this is a factory color match to spec (sort of crazy as our original paint had 40 years to fade and flatten out) but hey IT'S A TRUCK
That is very cool, so the paint store mixed a rattle can of spray paint?? |
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03-14-2015, 03:38 PM | #15 |
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fender with a coat of primer over the raw metal bits
Greg, aint you gonna fix / bondo those small dents... Dents? What dents? Those aren't dents, those are love bites, and we don't mask love bites! |
03-14-2015, 03:42 PM | #16 |
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one last wipe with some Good Natured Alcohol and into the [organic] climate controlled [by mother nature] paint booth
naturally we are back lit, so the photos will be very NASA moon landingish [ahem] questionable |
03-14-2015, 03:47 PM | #17 |
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ok so feet shoulders width apart, relax your grip, make sure you don't get tangled in the air hose (joking) and here we go with Coat Numero Uno... for those of you joining us from Latin America
FYI: depending on the surface area, weather conditions, gravitational pull, etc... you may find that one coat = one can of material, which is what this is turning out to be see you in 30 minutes... |
03-14-2015, 04:13 PM | #18 |
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OK, second verse, same as the first, but a whole lot greener, and a whole lot worse, hee hee
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03-14-2015, 04:16 PM | #19 |
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and then it was on to the third coat of the regular mixed paint (the last coat will be the semi flat finish)
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Nice work Ski! Taking a break today, enjoying some skis... brewskis.
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03-14-2015, 06:33 PM | #23 |
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fourth coat overall and first semi flat coat (front only)
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03-14-2015, 06:35 PM | #24 |
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fifth and final coat, this is the second semi flat finish coat to get the shine toned down a bit
I hope its flattening it out, took the pic while still wet so it should get even flatter |
03-14-2015, 06:43 PM | #25 |
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welcome back to the College of Truck Knowledge aka CTK
heard a bit of a valve lifter / rocker arm / valve chatter so decided to take a deeper dive ol' school style - always wanted to see the oiling action of the push rods in real time, so it was time to fabricate some custom cardboard splash shields, ... [10 seconds later] done at first (using a long breaker bar against my ear) I thought it was one of the 8th cylinder valves but then I couldn't tell where it was coming from so decided to play doctor |
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