Winter has broke
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Winter has broke
Well the white stuff has finaly stopped and it's 75 out. I decided to give her a bath and wax, after a little body work I'll explain later. Here are a few pics I snapped.
Who Says you need to buy rims. Stock Steelies look good if done right!!
Okay as for the body work. As most of us know the rear fender is a trouble spot. Right? It started out as a small spot that grew to a large bubble. Like a Dumb A$$ I tried to grind it down. Well need less to say there was nothing under the bubble. Now a hole about the size of a quarter. Sparyed it with some primmer and said I get to it later. 2 weeks go by and yesterday I decided to do it right. So I Started to wire wheel it and it kept growing. By the time I was done it was 4 inches long and a inch wide. Off to the supply store for some duraglass, bonda and more primmer. After 4 hours and getting high from the filler and primmer, it came out pretty good for the first time doing body work. I knew there was a reason I spent all my time in auto body class instead of my own class at VoTech. I didn't worry about paint cuz I plan on a total paint job this summer.
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Who Says you need to buy rims. Stock Steelies look good if done right!!
Okay as for the body work. As most of us know the rear fender is a trouble spot. Right? It started out as a small spot that grew to a large bubble. Like a Dumb A$$ I tried to grind it down. Well need less to say there was nothing under the bubble. Now a hole about the size of a quarter. Sparyed it with some primmer and said I get to it later. 2 weeks go by and yesterday I decided to do it right. So I Started to wire wheel it and it kept growing. By the time I was done it was 4 inches long and a inch wide. Off to the supply store for some duraglass, bonda and more primmer. After 4 hours and getting high from the filler and primmer, it came out pretty good for the first time doing body work. I knew there was a reason I spent all my time in auto body class instead of my own class at VoTech. I didn't worry about paint cuz I plan on a total paint job this summer.
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not that it never looked nice in the first place but now it will stay cleaner
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RE: Winter has broke
damn, it's supposed to rain here AGAIN on Saturday... we already have too much water in the rivers and the river is pushing up ground water in some of our communities. Not flooding, just seepage. It was 75 here today though, hopefully the next rain will be cold so we dont melt our snow pack and cause more problems. (being downhill from it can be a drag if it melts too fast)
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From: White Salmon Wa
RE: Winter has broke
you guys have nothing on the west coast for rain and snow.. last weekend i don't think i saw it not raining. oh yeah it snowed on 90% of the state.. everywhere but here....
yeah my parents woke up to 5 inches last weekend. good ole fun.
yeah my parents woke up to 5 inches last weekend. good ole fun.
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From: North Dakota
RE: Winter has broke
Snow's been gone for pert near a month here now finally.....lots of flooding problems in the Red River Valley though......finally got my truck washed up and vaccumed out, hadnt been vaccumed since deer hunting season (November). Wax job is yet to come....first i gotta clean out all the winter crap underneath it. By the way truck looks good dodgeramman!!!!
