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Not sure what you're talking about.
So it is a hole plug that fits in this hole and has TEQ on it

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So it is a hole plug that fits in this hole and has TEQ on it

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Oh. Not me. I wouldn't be able to make something like that. One of these days I'll get a 3D printer and that stuff would be easy enough to do

No teq logo, but

I just posted in another thread, CityRacer aka (@Racer65) has them in stock in the correct gray color to. Sor.com also sells them but they are just rubber grommets. I have also found chrome metal plugs on Amazon then painted them which works. Resurrections plugs need some finishing work by the end user. I have purchased from all 3 of these vendors and CityRacer's are the cleanest, closest to OEM and would recommend them. I think I gave the other vendors plugs away to people that bought from me in the classifieds here.
 
Made some really good progress on the rear speaker enclosures this weekend.

I dislike paint work. I'm pretty patient, but painting is a skill that requires some talent too. I'm lacking in the skill department. 😆

They look alright. I'll have to let them cure all the way and paint the bottom edge that is currently sitting on a block of wood.

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Somewhere between priming and painting, I thought it'd be neat to maybe paint these when the body is painted instead of coating them in bedliner. Wrong. 😆 They'll take way too much effort to get them sweet. Bedliner will hide all the sins.

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And some driving around in the woods, and backroads.

Chris's Hilux killed an O² sensor, which is annoying. We're planning on driving both rigs to the Black Hills of South Dakota next month. Better now than somewhere with far less resources.

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Painting pisses me off.

This is not going well...

It's acrylic paint from Cruiser Corps.
Second coat. After priming, sanding primer, and scuffing the first coat of paint with 400g.

1st coat of paint had a full week of cure time.

From brief Interweb research, my second coat was applied too heavily. I hate paint. I don't claim to know or care to know much. 😆 I have pulled off some rattle can miracles though.


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Some of it is almost passable. I could sand that defect out pretty easily.
Ignore the speaker opening. That got minimal effort and is completely covered by the speaker

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Close to 2 hours of wet sanding with 400g to get one of the enclosures back to a smooth surface.
At this point I'm going to GENTLY build the paint back up. Bury them in clear, and just polish up the clear to make them pretty.

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This is moderately retarded for me to put this much effort in on these. They're just going to get buried in urea coat. I wanted to see them looking nice to prove the concept all the way through.

I also should've just bought a cheap cup gun and had some real paint mixed up.
 
This is one coat applied 5% at a time.
So it's really 20 extremely light coats.

So far so good.

I'll need to flip them over and hit the top edge last.

Unless somebody tells me otherwise, my plan is to scuff them with 600g, pray I don't burn through, and top coat them in lacquer. OR, I'll just say F it, and call them good enough for now. I kinda want to take them all the way to awesome, but I'm also getting bored with screwing around with these.

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Another thought I had. I'm betting I could make a 2 piece mould on the cnc easily enough. Balloon the layup into the mould and sell these out of fibreglass one piece.
It'd take 2 moulds. A left and a right.
 
I feel you on the painting. I must have 15 coats on the front heater parts, and I'm still having issues on one of the pieces.

Paintvis so aggravating when you don't have the proper paint, the proper equipment, or a proper booth.

Even then, its not a guarantee. Painting is a craft.
 
Didn't get pictures, but I think I'm done with the speaker boxes. At this point I'm just going to cut it smooth and wax them up. Screw the clearcoat. 😆

LC proxy related. New tow tank acquired today. I hate the dash. But who cares.

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Tinker seems neutral.

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White interior with a red dog. Risky choice :rofl:

Carhartt decided to give their employees a choice. Either take an unproven gene therapy, or go find a new job. I've refuse to knowingly give companies money that pull that kind of BS on their employees just to virtue signal.

The Carhartt seat covers matched Tink hair perfectly. These are a biege(ish) seat cover. I should've gone with a darker color though.

The Ford seats are junk material. I put a whole 12 miles on before I put seat covers on.
 
Myself, Chris, Matt, and Dan are going to the Black Hills next weekend, so today was spent checking not much off my pre-trip list.

Changed engine oil.
Dropped tranny; transfer case, and axle fluids.
Spent some time figuring out how to how to strap everything down to Chris's Hilux.
Replaced one of the ambulance door hinges I dicked up installing new pins.
And finally installed the final version of the speaker boxes.

If you squint real hard the color match is flawless. 😆

Boxes themselves are good. The paint job is horrific in every respect though.


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Getting the speaker boxes installed really wasn't that important, I just wanted it off my list.

Tomorrow a few maintenance items to do, and I'll be ready to roll.
 
Console wiring cover 2.0. I cut a final out of plastic this morning, but failed to get a picture of it. This was a test cut from mdf to make sure it worked.

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I'm pretty pleased with that. I'm going to move the switch for the compressor from the face of the console to inside. The other hole will be used to trigger the spare circuit in the relay box. The current plan is to use that circuit for aux power in the trailer. If that ever gets completed...

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Taking a wheeling trip to the Black Hills this weekend. Did a test to make sure everything loaded down nicely on Chris's Hilux. Including the Dixon Fuel Caddy. (obviously)

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It's got what plants crave.
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600 miles west to the Black Hills in a 48 year old pos toyota? Sure, I like suffering.

Wheeling in the Black Hills for 2 days? Yes, I'm in!

600 miles east to home after 2 days of wheeling, (one of which was pretty brutal), in a 48 year old pos Toyota? I'm good, thanks.... 😆

Great trip though! Ended up on a couple of trails we had zero business being on with Chris and I both on 31's. The underside of the 40 looks like I drove over an IED. 😔

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That looks awesome, I really want to get to that event one day
 

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