Haven't been posting much, I bought a new truck, and have spent the last few weeks working on it. making good progress so I figured I would post a log here, haha. Here's the story:
So my old (little, red) ranger needed brakes, and a new radiator, and basically all basic maintenance, it was time to put her out to pasture and get a new ride.
(Pasture = Off roading till she dies. She bombed around huge dirt bike trails for 6 hours yesterday, lost both front shocks, and brakes are shot, but still drives some how. Going to picknpull with her tonight.)
Bought a new (to me) 2003 Ranger, fx4 level II (off road package):
She needed some work though. Rust spots and dented:
Fender flares pretty faded:
Even the tailgate rusted through the bottom:
(Shout out to @Kris Jensen who is using his awesome welding wizardry on the tailgate)
The box upper edge, and body lower 1/3 edge were both dinged up, pitted, and beginning to form rust.
Mechanically sound, but damn the body needed work.
Figured it was a good opportunity to learn a little bit about body work and sheet metal.
I got rocking and rolling and (didn't take pictures) of:
Removing all rust with wire wheel, Angle grinder.
Banging out big dents to be relatively flat
Applying POR15 rust preventative to anything that previously had rust (this kit took days by itself)
Bondo, sanding, repeat X4:
Taped off and painted (Primer X2, colour X3):
Clear coat X3, sanding with 1000, 2000 grit to hide the colour transition. (Not shown)
Here's the cool part, bought a kit of roll on bed liner, this stuff:
Taped off, and sanded (120 grit) the target areas till white:
Took a break and a beer:
and rolled bed liner on the aforementioned lower 1/3, truck box top edge, and fender flares:
Tape removed, to show nice crisp lines, also shown here is the rust spot from before:
Will post more updates as they become available.
Pending: Replace gas door (rusted through). Finalize tailgate , Decide whether or not to bed line the plastic parts of the bumpers...
Take more full truck photos once truck is free from the garage. (This stuff takes 2-4 days to cure enough that water wont cause damage, so shes staying safely inside for now.)
JW
So my old (little, red) ranger needed brakes, and a new radiator, and basically all basic maintenance, it was time to put her out to pasture and get a new ride.
(Pasture = Off roading till she dies. She bombed around huge dirt bike trails for 6 hours yesterday, lost both front shocks, and brakes are shot, but still drives some how. Going to picknpull with her tonight.)
Bought a new (to me) 2003 Ranger, fx4 level II (off road package):
She needed some work though. Rust spots and dented:
Fender flares pretty faded:
Even the tailgate rusted through the bottom:
(Shout out to @Kris Jensen who is using his awesome welding wizardry on the tailgate)
The box upper edge, and body lower 1/3 edge were both dinged up, pitted, and beginning to form rust.
Mechanically sound, but damn the body needed work.
Figured it was a good opportunity to learn a little bit about body work and sheet metal.
I got rocking and rolling and (didn't take pictures) of:
Removing all rust with wire wheel, Angle grinder.
Banging out big dents to be relatively flat
Applying POR15 rust preventative to anything that previously had rust (this kit took days by itself)
Bondo, sanding, repeat X4:
Taped off and painted (Primer X2, colour X3):
Clear coat X3, sanding with 1000, 2000 grit to hide the colour transition. (Not shown)
Here's the cool part, bought a kit of roll on bed liner, this stuff:
Taped off, and sanded (120 grit) the target areas till white:
Took a break and a beer:
and rolled bed liner on the aforementioned lower 1/3, truck box top edge, and fender flares:
Tape removed, to show nice crisp lines, also shown here is the rust spot from before:
Will post more updates as they become available.
Pending: Replace gas door (rusted through). Finalize tailgate , Decide whether or not to bed line the plastic parts of the bumpers...
Take more full truck photos once truck is free from the garage. (This stuff takes 2-4 days to cure enough that water wont cause damage, so shes staying safely inside for now.)
JW
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