Recent content by kelvinator3001

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Man, I don't know to be honest. There's a nasty pothole around the corner. Did I mention these are stock and flat? That sounds like a good path forward. One day when the kids grow up and are out of the house and college is paid for I will finally start making upgrades. Should be around the year...

Stock springs and suspension. Springs are pretty flat. Knew I needed to replace the whole suspension at some point. Then this happened. Passenger front shackle is inverted/collapsed. Searched around and didn't see a ton about what to do about this. Someone mentioned jacking it up and using a...

The only thing "hyper tough" was getting all the oil to finally drip inside; cookie sheet might have worked better

Got a thread on your rust repair?

Well done. Curious about how you handled the rust on the doors (near the windows)? Did you have to weld there?

And mine is a repaint. So I don't know the code. Looks like that site goes off of make/model/code. Any way to paint match without a code?

Looks nice. Can't tell what you touched up, which is the point I suppose. Was this a rust repair?

A little update. Applied Fluid Film today to all the exposed rust and paint bubbles. Wish I would have done it sooner (have owned it for 6 months). Hoping I did it correctly in that I wiped off the excess all the excess. Couldnt find much info online about apply to the body, only the frame. Did...

That's kind of what I was thinking, haha. I recognize "bad" and "good" are subjective when it comes to rust and yes, you never know what's underneath until you dig...but I was thinking I was lucky too.

Will adding a rust inhibitor inside the doors before paint and bodywork is done help or hurt?

Thanks. What about using fluid film down inside the doors?

Is Fluid Film the one that has a gnarly smell? Feel like I've read somewhere on mud about one of the rust inhibitors having a really bad smell that just seems to never go away.

Rust inhibitor recommendation? Assuming it only works on exposed rust (ie not on the hatch bubbles)?

That's really interesting. Never heard that analogy, but makes sense. So don't dig in to anything before I'm ready for a complete repaint? Even the gutters? Right now the main thing is just keeping moisture off by getting a cover and potentially greasing the rusted areas?