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Here's some more.
Project "Sparkle Wrench"....1972 TLC 40 and all his rusty friends!!!
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....and some more rust repair work.
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Here's the piece welded on.
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....after some grinding.
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I also had to repair some of the top section where it's spot welded to the upper wheel well.
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The final group of pics show the quick chemical strip I did on the wheel well. The main reason for this was to get rid of the damn undercoating on the backside. It can be a true PITA to remove.
Keep the good work!
Yeas sir. It's slow and painful, but even slow progress is still progress
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Slow progress is still progress. I've been repeating it like a mantra! Hang in there! Catch up with ya soon ...
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You gotta swing by the shop. It's getting too cold to be wrenching outside. I still owe you a slider install.
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I only got an hour to work on the tub today. Got the upper wheel well removed and did an inspection of the rot. Not too bad, but still will have to go under the knife.
I will not be up at the shop until next Sunday. Going X-mas shopping in Baltimore on Sunday with the wifey......whoo-hoo!!
One good thing is I get to buy for my 19 month old son. My inner child will be out in full force on Sunday.
Here's the panel removed. No surprises thank God. Still got some patching to do.
This is the infamous Toyota "triple lap seam" flaw they also had on the 84-88Toyota P/U beds.
The final pic shows the under side of the upper wheel well. Cut, cut, weld, weld...............grind
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I will not be up at the shop until next Sunday. Going X-mas shopping in Baltimore on Sunday with the wifey......whoo-hoo!!
One good thing is I get to buy for my 19 month old son. My inner child will be out in full force on Sunday. Here's the panel removed. No surprises thank God. Still got some patching to do.
This is the infamous Toyota "triple lap seam" flaw they also had on the 84-88Toyota P/U beds.
The final pic shows the under side of the upper wheel well. Cut, cut, weld, weld...............grind
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Here's another vid. Not much to report, but hey if you're a car guy, it beats watching the crap that's on TV nowadays.
No worries man, too busy to get to that truck right now anyway, but I really would like to see Sparkle so maybe after the holidays! Keep up the great work!
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We'll get together one of these days. Hopefully you will get to see some real progress once I start stitching it back together. I have nightmares of spot welds trying to get me
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I got to sneak out form the holiday hoopla today. Not too much to report, but one plus is the spot welds are starting to diminish. WHOOOO HOOOO
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The passanger side lower wheel well was in a "little" better shape that the DS, but it still needed its fair share of repair (enjoy the prose). Now removing the tar pit of a mess (underneath)on the upper DS wheel well truely sucked. The stripper only loosened it up. The paint thinner worked, but it was caked on so bad I was scrubbing my a@s off. Still some traces left, but the blaster should be able to take it to clean metal.
Looks like I'll be taking a holiday brake from Sparkle Wrench 'til after the New Year. Between the parties, shopping and all the other festivities associated with this time of year, wrenching on anything other than my son's toys is on hold.
.I got to sneak out form the holiday hoopla today. Not too much to report, but one plus is the spot welds are starting to diminish. WHOOOO HOOOO
!!The passanger side lower wheel well was in a "little" better shape that the DS, but it still needed its fair share of repair (enjoy the prose
). Now removing the tar pit of a mess (underneath)on the upper DS wheel well truely sucked. The stripper only loosened it up. The paint thinner worked, but it was caked on so bad I was scrubbing my a@s off. Still some traces left, but the blaster should be able to take it to clean metal. Looks like I'll be taking a holiday brake from Sparkle Wrench 'til after the New Year. Between the parties, shopping and all the other festivities associated with this time of year, wrenching on anything other than my son's toys is on hold.
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...a few more.
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Th final few. More to come.
HOLY S**T. I feel like I rescued a really good dog and found it a great home.
When I saw this truck rotting away in some guys driveway, I knew someone on MUD needed a reason for their wife to get pissed at them...
Good job sir!!!!! Stoked to see it getting worked on!!!
Jeff
When I saw this truck rotting away in some guys driveway, I knew someone on MUD needed a reason for their wife to get pissed at them...
Good job sir!!!!! Stoked to see it getting worked on!!!
Jeff
Enjoying the play by play! Wish I had the ability to work with metal like that.
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The adopted dog (we'll call Sparkles) is doing well. I wish I could spend more time with the little pup, but got alot of other stuff going on especially now with the holidays.
My plan is to have the body in primer by March, but we'll see
.Thanks Razorsharp!! Working with the metal isn't too bad, but if I had to go and buy all the tools over again I'd pick another hobby like basket weaving.
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Maybe I missed it somewhere but how are you getting those clean cuts of the old rusted metal on the (well just about everywhere) but I noticed on the rear quarters? Zip gun? Pneumatic metal sheers, plazma cutter?
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I am really particular of the cut off tool. The rear quarter sections were actually a combination of both the cut off tool and plasma cutter. The plasma torch is really fast, but unless you have piece of steel to use as a guide over the section you want to cut it's difficult to get completely straight cuts. With a cut-off tool, some tape, and a fresh wheel I can get a cleaner/straighter cut (IMHO). It takes a bit longer though. I like to score the metal first with the wheel about half way through, and then go back. This way you'll have a guide as you go back to cut through the rest.
I own a couple sets of metal sheers and really like them, but I tend to use them more on metal I'm using to make a patch panel than to cut the sheetmetal off the vehicle. They remove about a 1/4" of metal while cutting. When cutting metal on a truck you definitely want to leave a little meat on the bone. It's much easier to trim a little extra with a plasma,cut-off orgrinder than to weld a section back in.
I own a couple sets of metal sheers and really like them, but I tend to use them more on metal I'm using to make a patch panel than to cut the sheetmetal off the vehicle. They remove about a 1/4" of metal while cutting. When cutting metal on a truck you definitely want to leave a little meat on the bone. It's much easier to trim a little extra with a plasma,cut-off orgrinder than to weld a section back in.
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