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Old 04-03-2008, 03:00 AM   #1
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Has your truck ever.....

Removed its own dents?

I had a dent in my right door on my 87. I thought about it today went out to pull it out with a shop grade suction cup dent puller...and it was gone. Like it never had a dent. I called my nephew Jason and asked him if I was losing my mind. He said yeah there was a dent there. I told him it was gone and he said you sure didnt pull it already? I know I didnt...and there would have been a mark there if I did.

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Old 04-03-2008, 03:03 AM   #2
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

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Old 04-03-2008, 04:24 AM   #3
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Old 04-03-2008, 04:28 AM   #4
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

I'm hoping for a rust Genie.
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Old 04-03-2008, 04:34 AM   #5
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now if my truck would do that, we'd certainly be getting some where lol, a rust genie would be quite nice to...
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Old 04-03-2008, 04:45 AM   #6
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It'd be nice if my truck put its own fuel pump in.
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Old 04-03-2008, 05:05 AM   #7
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

Never had that happen with a truck...did have it happen with our old 88 Chevy Caprice though. Dad backed into it with the tractor and blade, leaving a fair size dent in the passenger side door. About a month later the dent popped itself out. There was still some minor creasing and damaged paint, but the dent, for the most part, was gone.
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Old 04-03-2008, 05:24 AM   #8
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

id say it was a temp change.....that would be my educated guess ...if i was educated lol.....heck it s out and you didnt have to do it......yeeeeee haaaaaaawwww///or caminokid are you running a flux capacitor ?????? lol
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:53 AM   #9
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i stopped by your place and did it you will get a bill later
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Old 04-03-2008, 07:14 AM   #10
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

I wish my truck would drop itself!
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Old 04-03-2008, 07:43 AM   #11
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lol i wish my 327 out of the Massey combine would rebuild itself into an 8,000 rpm motor and jump in my shortbox!!


man that would be sweet!
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Old 04-03-2008, 07:43 AM   #12
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That's self healing. Mine's slowly going the other way
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Old 04-03-2008, 08:18 AM   #13
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

Mine did just the opposite! I pulled a dent out of the passenger rear door on the 90 burb. about a year later I'm walking past it and WTF!!! it's back! I finally get the time open the door up, push the door back out, 6 months later, it's back! I figure the burb must like the dent so I have left it alone since.
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Old 04-03-2008, 02:43 PM   #14
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I'd have to agree with the temp change idea.????? But that would have to mean your truck seals very good!
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Old 04-03-2008, 04:03 PM   #15
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thats happend before to me - had a car come into work for a new doorskin - 2 days later i open up the workshop and get the cars out and start work on one car, bring the other in with dent in door to work on and the dent was gone??? so i asked the boss wtf is goin on an he just gave me a blank look of ummm wtf??? sure was strange...
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:03 PM   #16
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

hasn't anyone told you that there is no such thing as a "rust fairy" "dent removal claus" or the "fuel pump bunny", you people are such children, grow up!
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:06 PM   #17
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but it seriously did happen...
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:13 PM   #18
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

Actually, i have heard that in the southern hemisphere dents pop out on there own, i think it has something to do with the water going down the drain in the opposite direction.
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:32 PM   #19
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

My 80's old boxside used to bow in or out depending on the weather. It was a significant dent too, you could hear it bang from inside the house when it got colder outside at night.
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:59 PM   #20
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Re: Has your truck ever.....

Mine majically acquires dents when I'm at work. Patiently waiting for it to paint it's self tho....
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Old 04-04-2008, 07:21 AM   #21
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Old 04-04-2008, 07:30 AM   #22
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Awesome that your truck can do that she doesn't want dents
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Old 04-04-2008, 07:50 AM   #23
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Sounds like a NetFlix commercial to me ...........If a dent pops out of a door on a Chevy in Illinois .........a Ferd falls off a cliff in Arizona . I will be curious to see if it comes back next winter .
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Old 04-05-2008, 08:23 PM   #24
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when i first got my truck the ds window would take forever to roll up. it really took some effort and pulling. i lithium greased the crank and regulator and it hasn't given me grief in months.

same deal with my 3 speed on the floor tranny. even the shortest trips would be stressful when the gears would lock up and buck and chuck down the road. i coated the linkage with lithium grease and that hasn't happened in months either. my truck had sat undriven for 8 mos before i had bought it. just lithium greasing her and driving her pretty regular has cured a lot of it's earlier ailments.

if i get a dent i think i'll just spray some lithium grease on it and watch it magically disappear.
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Old 04-05-2008, 09:40 PM   #25
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I'll bet if you lightly push in where the dest 'was', it'll pop in and out....it's called "oil canning".
Metal has memory, so if a dent doesn't have any stressed areas around it (creases), they generally pop right back out and require no additional bodywork.
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