Afternoon everyone. Spent the day enjoying the ocean.

Stress, always works that way with use stuff it seems.

 

Good evening fellas
Sounds like you have nicer weather than us Dave.
Winter just won't let go.....

 

Good evening guys!

What a great day out there today. Looks like that might change tomorrow though.

So I have been in contact with the guy who had my old 7.3 that got wrecked last weekend. It got totalled out of course and they decided not to buy it back but asked if I was interested. The price was real good so I bought it back. The plan is to fix it and sell it at some point. I am not in a big hurry to get it fixed. Just work on it when I have time. It took a good hit as you can see from the pictures below. The front axle is over to the drivers side by a good eight inches I would say. Going to need to replace the front frame section.

 

Wow - that's quite a project!
I hope the transmission case made it okay.

 

Yes it will be Randy. Transmission case looks good from all the looking I have done. Can't see any cracks.

 

Good evening guys. Spent the better part of the day cleaning up the crawl space and the garage. Pooped.

Hope everyone had a great Saturday. Tomorrow sounds bad.

 

That's great Troy...
Many times they get hurt in collisions like that.
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I ran into something wierd this afternoon with Jake's Durango. There were a bunch of rust bubbles in the paint on the left rear quarter. So, figuring I would just see how bad it was and if the rust went all the way through, I grabbed a small screwdriver and went to tap on the bubble. Suddenly I am squirted with water! The bubbles (most of them) are not rusty at all. Evidently, a bodyshop painted this thing when it was wet!



That's bare steel - evidently no air in the bubble or it would be rusty...
Maybe cleaning up the body of this truck won't be as bad as I thought!

 

That head on picture really shows how bad. Hurt the A pillars any? Good looks pushed up into it

 

Good morning guys.

That truck sure is biffed Troy. Has to hurt a little to see your baby like that.

Randy, usually that is the beginning of rust coming through from the back but hopefully I am wrong.

More cleanup and organizing around here today.

 

Good morning fellas
I hope this time youre wrong.. the bubbles were full of water and the metal appears to be solid. I'll take a better look today..
Have a good Sunday fellas!

 

Busy day for you and you even pooped! You must have been exhausted!

I am guessing that was the first stage of rust starting or something. Wasn't painted when wet. Paint and water don't mix well. Paint wouldn't have trapped the water like that.

Nope the A pillars are just fine. Doors open and close perfectly. Actually there is only a scuff in the drivers door other wise no damage to the doors at all.

Good morning Jay!

Yeah it does sting a little. Haha

Have fun cleaning.

 

Good morning Randy!

Even if it is rust starting. It was caught early enough it will be a much easier fix.

 

So are you homeless yet Jay?

 

Good Morning All!

 

Good to hear about the offer Jay.