15 years and 250k miles in IA, MN and ND have taken its toll on my rainier. I have put a bunch of time and money in suspension and other maintenance so its running great, just looking a bit rough on the quarters.
Time to get started cleaning it up. Patch panels are not made so going with the make my own panels from a fender method. I need to rebuild the inner wheelhouse lip that is mostly rusted out, get wire wheel what surface rust there is on the panels, cut the patch panel to size and weld everything in. Prime, bondo, prime and paint and hopefully it will make it another couple years and maybe to 300k. Its a 5.3 rainier so miles are irrelevant
I had bondoed this up 2 years ago, it didnt last, and the primer i used has started to flake after 2 years for some odd reason.
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