Washing truck parts in the shower.

I know I have a lame defense.....but it was 16 degrees outside and there is no way I could hook up a garden hose to do this outdoors.

I had spent over two hours pounding out dents and straightening one of the F3's running boards down in the cellar. My ears are still ringing since all I have are caveman tools.

Those square stiffening channels on the underside trap a lot of crud and I shook loose about a pound of Arizona rock, dried mud and insect nests.
So it needed a bath afterward. One board down and one to go.
Next step.....POR-15 coating after they dry by the wood pellet stove. Might as well stink up the house and add to my "I'll pay for that someday soon" list.
Tom

 

Attention getting title for sure. But, since you are posting, it must not have been that bad. Did you get all the dirt from the running boards?

 

I will pay for it....I'm sure she took the picture to use against me somehow. It's on her Facebook no doubt gathering women's comments. I don't do Facebook thankfully. I asked her to send me the picture so I can do the same. I know you guys understand. Especially those in the north who get cabin fever and want to feel productive working on our trucks during these long cold winter days.
She is still upset that I had used an Aunt Jemina kitchen spatula to fill cracks in the driveway - and that was 20 years ago. It was her 'favorite' although there was two others in the drawer that looked a lot nicer than that one. I hear about that at least once a year.

Those square box channels were uncooperative. I don't have compressed air in my cellar so I used a flexible long wire pellet stove brush and an old curtain rod to jam in there and push it out.
I can still taste southwest dust in my mouth.
But that is better than getting a rolling pin upside the head and tasting blood.

 

You sir, definitely have a big pair. My hats off to you. My wife has come to expect these types of "incidents". She must have a pretty good sense of humor as we just had our 22nd anniversary yesterday.


Several years ago, my family and some other friends decided to camp out for Thanksgiving. We smoked a 20# bird and a lot of salmon, and roasted another 20# bird. After dinner was all done and dusted and we were cleaning up the park ranger came by and caught me and my buddy trying to clean up the smoker and roaster in the state park's showers.....lol


Bobby

 

They have guns, don't they? Hope it wasn't a female ranger and that is why you're still alive!

 

Good thing you weren't washing parts in the dishwasher. She might not have been as forgiving if you were doing that.

 

Time to go on offense:
1. No hair products were used
2. You didn't use the 'good' towels to dry anything
3. You remained fully clothed for the duration
4. No intoxicating beverages were involved (going on faith here)
5. All of my truck forum buddies thought I was very sensible
6. Arizonia road crud is a natural exfoliant - offer to save some for her next spa day

That should get things off to a good start.

You're welcome.

 

I hope you didn't taste too much of that Arizona dust. It'll give you Valley Fever!

 

If you notice, a lot of times when there is rot in the running boards, it runs diagonal right on top of that channel. That must be why, all of that dirt holding moisture. Mine were the same way. It took me several hours to get mine clean. Back in the summer I used simple green and a pressure washer and I think that got most of it.

JB

 

It could have been worse . Baking 3 heat ranges of stainless coating on flattie exhaust headers !!! In her NEW oven . BADDDDDDD move .

 

The dishwasher and oven are grounds for justifiable homicide in this household.
We have a small house and only one bathroom, so I pushed the limits enough. After 24 years together she has gotten accustomed to some of my bright ideas but those two areas would result in a found-not-guilty widow selling an un-assembled truck on Craigslist.

Tom

 

I washed a packing blanket that got some stinky gear oil on it from a metal cutting bandsaw I brought home on it's side. I washed it twice after midnight. it looks like new. shhh.

 

I hope you had a pad or towel under that so it wouldn't scratch the fiberglass.

Later!
Mr. Ed

 

Hope you didn't eat any food prepared in that oven afterwards. Also toxic fumes are significant during.

 

Ummmmm, no.... I used the plastic hair guard over the drain to rest the point of the board on. It got beat up up in the process but they can be found at the dollar store. I was supposed to get another one on the way home from work today - but forgot.
I still have one more running board to straighten - and wash. Only I'll plan my bathroom time more carefully on this one.