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What did you do to your Mopar today?

themechanic said:
Where's the cute little scoops?
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Here they are ……

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Working on the Alterkation suspension install. .....drilling out 6 welds (per side) to remove the lower bump stops.....fun stuff!

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Been on there for 55 years!

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Now I finally get to put this...

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In this!

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Having fun.....

Also, anytime I get to use antiseize, well...ya know!

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Jeff
 
Wife and I took Cora out for a ride yesterday, went to lunch and a little shopping. On the way back I stop at my car detailer and told him about the lettering on BFG tires not coming out white and I need white, not cream colored. These tires are two years old and have about 4 to 5 thousand miles on them. He details 5000 cars, boats, ATV's, motorcycles, motorhomes, a year and his shop backs up to three new car dealers on the service road and they made a driveway from them to him. I setup an appointment for a full detail, but I told him he needed to show me what they do to get them white so I could pass it along to you guys. We had this discussion here not to long ago and many ideas were shared. This is what they do and it's not brain surgery. Lacquer thinner on a rag and with mine he went over them LIGHTLY with a brass wire brush, not super stiff, after he just wiped them with the lacquer thinner. After hitting them with a wire brush he wiped them again with the rag with lacquer thinner and then sprayed them with a water bottle and wiped them dry with a clean rag. I asked him to do just one part of the writing so you could see the difference. He did the BFGoodrich and the other is how I brought it to him. the difference is day and night. I hope this helps.

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Put snow tires on the Journey. Its that time of year.
And put the Dakota into storage for the winter.
 
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Hey-O said:
Wife and I took Cora out for a ride yesterday, went to lunch and a little shopping. On the way back I stop at my car detailer and told him about the lettering on BFG tires not coming out white and I need white, not cream colored. These tires are two years old and have about 4 to 5 thousand miles on them. He details 5000 cars, boats, ATV's, motorcycles, motorhomes, a year and his shop backs up to three new car dealers on the service road and they made a driveway from them to him. I setup an appointment for a full detail, but I told him he needed to show me what they do to get them white so I could pass it along to you guys. We had this discussion here not to long ago and many ideas were shared. This is what they do and it's not brain surgery. Lacquer thinner on a rag and with mine he went over them LIGHTLY with a brass wire brush, not super stiff, after he just wiped them with the lacquer thinner. After hitting them with a wire brush he wiped them again with the rag with lacquer thinner and then sprayed them with a water bottle and wiped them dry with a clean rag. I asked him to do just one part of the writing so you could see the difference. He did the BFGoodrich and the other is how I brought it to him. the difference is day and night. I hope this helps.

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I use gasoline. ....works like magic.

Jeff
 
CoronetDarter said:
Watched the wife drive away in the Coronet. God, I'm going to miss her; the wife too.

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Is she coming back soon? ....and the wife too?

I spent an hour or so scouring the net for window fuzzies and rubber gaskets. Think I found what I need. It really is frustrating when a company says they can help, then you hear nothing but crickets.
 
Started removing both the instrument cluster and the brake booster on the Coronet on Sunday. The speedo is going in for repair (needle fell to zero and won't move). I'm going to replace every lamp in the assembly before re-installation. All of the other gauges work except the ammeter, which is disconnected altogether. I'm going to work on the radio issue while the cluster is out.

I also got a bit of work done on the D300 on Friday, so it'll be able to be driven on a regular basis this week. Finally! Once the rebuilt heater goes back in, she'll roll!

The Imperial needs a quick cleaning before I take it out for "trunk or treat" at the local BBQ joint. They provide the candy, we provide the trunks!
 
Just stared at them. Appraiser finally here tomorrow.. for what not sure.. but supposed to be here at 9AM.
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Started a front suspension rebuild including replacing the Hotchkis upper control arms with QA1. No one around here can or will do a proper alignment with the Hotchkis so their additional adjustability is wasted and all I really get is the extra harshness of no having bushings.
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Ordered some new rubbers and fuzzies. :)
 
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