What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]

[Streetbu]

My Cub Cadet has trouble climbing inclines sometimes, so gave it about a 5hp boost with some stickers. Climbs right up em now boys wooey!View attachment 143930

Check belt tension for the transmission. If that's good you probably need to change the fluid in the transmission which is a pita. Now I'm assuming it's a hydrostatic. Probably a Tuff Torq K46 which are very common. No drain plug on them either. Have to be removed to be drained but not that bad of a job.

 

[TURNA]

Mowed the field today with the old 46 Farmall tractor, man was it muddy but at least the driver seat is up high out of it. While back there I discovered one of the trees I was planning to cut down back in the winter was completely covered in white blossoms. Turns out its a white Crabapple that sprung up wild, so I am going to keep it since its a free ornamental tree.

I have one in my yard. They are beautiful for about 2 weeks!!

 

[Texas82GP]

I got my brother, Sean, a do-it-yourself spray-in bedliner kit for Christmas. He bought his 2002 Sierra new in late 2001 and we've wanted to do a spray in liner for it for a long time. We've been looking for a good-weather weekend and this one looked good so this project was our plan. Saturday morning we started by pulling out the bed mat and washing the bed out with Dawn dish soap...

I climbed in and chammied it off. The bed was still really clean. Mostly just some scuffs and scratches and a few small dings...

Then we pulled the tailgate and I started dissassembling it....

Meanhile, Sean and Dad got to work on scuffing the paint in the bed. We used red Scotchbrite pads. I've seen much coarser grit recommended, like as aggressive as 36 to 40 grit but this is what we used when we did the spray in on my truck eight years ago so this is what we did....

The card table I was working on seemed pretty rickety so once I got the tailgate broke down, I set up on a couple of milk cases with two folded towels each for pads...

Ok, my turn to sand....

I've said it before but I'm the Tortoise and Sean is the Hare. By the time I had the tailgate disassembled, everything bagged and tagged and the tailgate sanded, Sean and Dad were well into taping the truck up...

Here's a look at it all taped up...

This is where we broke for lunch. I had ordered Popeye's Chicken for everyone and had it delivered. During lunch, I expressed some concern that maybe we should wait a few hours for the sun to go behind the house, putting the driveway in shade before we went ahead and sprayed in the bedliner. The metal was really hot in the direct sun. It wasn't supposed to rain but when we came outside from lunch we could see Mother Nature had different plans....

On to plan B. We cut open the plastic on the driver's side of the truck and Sean backed the truck into the garage. Our garage isn't long enough to get the truck in and close the door, at least not with the work bench. We got it back to where there was maybe 30" between the back bumper and the bench. I put a bunch of loose stuff in the back of my truck (mop buckets, box of parts, etc.) to make room for the tailgate. We got it all set up in the garage without trashing much of the tape job....

I think by now, it was 1:30 - 2:00 and we were pretty certain it was going to rain. I was concerned what affect the humidity was going to have if it started raining while we were spraying so we opted to wait it out. It did go ahead and rain, and we even got some pea sized hail. By about 4:00 the sun started shining. Sean wiped everything down and we went ahead and started spraying. The sky soured again, even though it was forecast to clear off and it even rained a little but not enough to bring the humidity out of the 50's. It sprayed really nice. The kit I bought was Upol's Raptor Liner. I got eight bottles of the liner with the correct amount of hardener and it also came with Upol's schutz gun.

We ended up spraying about 7-3/4 bottles. Dad and Sean held up carboard on the sides while I was spraying to keep the material from spraying all over the garage. It turned out nice. I laid about three coats on everything and then at the end reached over the side and did a dust coat on the floor to make it look a little more uniform. I went about cleaning the gun and about 30 minutes after we stopped spraying, Sean started pulling the tape. It all came off nice...

I think by now it was pushing 6-6:30. We kept the truck in the garage until about 9:30 and then rolled it out in the driveway so we could roll the garage door down for the night. We were a little concerned about dew and what effect that might have but everything was fine. Here's what the truck looked like this morning...

We put everything back together this morning....

Merry Christmas Bruddah!

 

[melloelky]

looks good

 

[81cutlass]

Texas. Where you can buy a new vehicle almost 20 years ago and it isn't a rusty pile today.

Kinda jealous.

 

[Texas82GP]

looks good

Thanks! It was hard work. I'm pretty sore from crawling around in that bed spraying the walls.

Texas. Where you can buy a new vehicle almost 20 years ago and it isn't a rusty pile today.

Kinda jealous.

Yeah, I feel for you guys in the rust belt. Both his truck and mine have sat outside almost every day we've owned them and they don't have any rust. If they aren't sitting around, especially on an unpaved surface, they don't rust. It can really pay off to take care of a car down here but most people still don't. Most just trade it in on a new one. Mine's been paid off since March of 2013. Both trucks have over 180k miles on them and we have to work on them but they both are still nice.

 

[Local Hero]

Got the fleet moved around so I could get The Mrs.' Vert in for servicing and to swap out a wonky light fixture above where it was parked.

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Weather was crap today so I spent all day inside the shop working on "La Boat."

Got it up in the air, greased the front end, changed the oil and filter, dropped the trans pan and changed the gasket and filter 'cause the pan was leaking a tiny bit, dropped the gas tank and replaced all the rubber fuel line connections since they've never been done, included those at the fuel pump, rotated the tires and then laid a coat of wax on it.

I had the long Q-Jet fuel filter on hand and then needed the short one. Strange because my Olds Coupe took the long one. Both have Olds 350s and Q-Jets. So I couldn't complete that. I was just a little too beat to want to go out just to get a short filter. Will wrap it up later this week. Mrs. was happy with the progress. 😉

 

[pontiac guy]

Wrapped up the van fuel system today. Drove it around the block. Comical. If you've never driven a 10 ft tall 20 ft long bread truck let me tell you, it's not as easy as it looks. Can't see diddly anywhere. The mirrors are strategicly positioned to show you nothing and you can't see behind you cuz IT AINT GOT NO WONDOWS. The trans is a straight cut nightmare of a noise maker with a shifter so long you have to walk from the front of the pattern to the back. Nothing is synchronized. In retrospect it was fun! Alternator doesn't charge, it needs a valve cover gasket, and I need to repair the hacked up wires but man o man did it look cool rolling under its own power.

 

[Turbo Zach]

Wrapped up the van fuel system today. Drove it around the block. Comical. If you've never driven a 10 ft tall 20 ft long bread truck let me tell you, it's not as easy as it looks. Can't see diddly anywhere. The mirrors are strategicly positioned to show you nothing and you can't see behind you cuz IT AINT GOT NO WONDOWS. The trans is a straight cut nightmare of a noise maker with a shifter so long you have to walk from the front of the pattern to the back. Nothing is synchronized. In retrospect it was fun! Alternator doesn't charge, it needs a valve cover gasket, and I need to repair the hacked up wires but man o man did it look cool rolling under its own power.

We need more pictures of that beast.

 

[superbon54]

I got my brother, Sean, a do-it-yourself spray-in bedliner kit for Christmas. He bought his 2002 Sierra new in late 2001 and we've wanted to do a spray in liner for it for a long time. We've been looking for a good-weather weekend and this one looked good so this project was our plan. Saturday morning we started by pulling out the bed mat and washing the bed out with Dawn dish soap...
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I climbed in and chammied it off. The bed was still really clean. Mostly just some scuffs and scratches and a few small dings...

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Then we pulled the tailgate and I started dissassembling it....

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Meanhile, Sean and Dad got to work on scuffing the paint in the bed. We used red Scotchbrite pads. I've seen much coarser grit recommended, like as aggressive as 36 to 40 grit but this is what we used when we did the spray in on my truck eight years ago so this is what we did....

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The card table I was working on seemed pretty rickety so once I got the tailgate broke down, I set up on a couple of milk cases with two folded towels each for pads...

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Ok, my turn to sand....

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I've said it before but I'm the Tortoise and Sean is the Hare. By the time I had the tailgate disassembled, everything bagged and tagged and the tailgate sanded, Sean and Dad were well into taping the truck up...

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Here's a look at it all taped up...

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This is where we broke for lunch. I had ordered Popeye's Chicken for everyone and had it delivered. During lunch, I expressed some concern that maybe we should wait a few hours for the sun to go behind the house, putting the driveway in shade before we went ahead and sprayed in the bedliner. The metal was really hot in the direct sun. It wasn't supposed to rain but when we came outside from lunch we could see Mother Nature had different plans....

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On to plan B. We cut open the plastic on the driver's side of the truck and Sean backed the truck into the garage. Our garage isn't long enough to get the truck in and close the door, at least not with the work bench. We got it back to where there was maybe 30" between the back bumper and the bench. I put a bunch of loose stuff in the back of my truck (mop buckets, box of parts, etc.) to make room for the tailgate. We got it all set up in the garage without trashing much of the tape job....

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I think by now, it was 1:30 - 2:00 and we were pretty certain it was going to rain. I was concerned what affect the humidity was going to have if it started raining while we were spraying so we opted to wait it out. It did go ahead and rain, and we even got some pea sized hail. By about 4:00 the sun started shining. Sean wiped everything down and we went ahead and started spraying. The sky soured again, even though it was forecast to clear off and it even rained a little but not enough to bring the humidity out of the 50's. It sprayed really nice. The kit I bought was Upol's Raptor Liner. I got eight bottles of the liner with the correct amount of hardener and it also came with Upol's schutz gun.

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We ended up spraying about 7-3/4 bottles. Dad and Sean held up carboard on the sides while I was spraying to keep the material from spraying all over the garage. It turned out nice. I laid about three coats on everything and then at the end reached over the side and did a dust coat on the floor to make it look a little more uniform. I went about cleaning the gun and about 30 minutes after we stopped spraying, Sean started pulling the tape. It all came off nice...

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I think by now it was pushing 6-6:30. We kept the truck in the garage until about 9:30 and then rolled it out in the driveway so we could roll the garage door down for the night. We were a little concerned about dew and what effect that might have but everything was fine. Here's what the truck looked like this morning...

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We put everything back together this morning....

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Merry Christmas Bruddah!

I was just eyeing a raptor kit this morning. Thinking of spraying the floorpan and inside the trunk. Looks good! Where did you get your kit from?