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| johnny5ive | Oct 3 2013, 07:17 PM Post #1 |
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Have you ever disassembled a car that burnt? I didn't want to show up at Bob's place down in Alabama and make a huge mess all over his nice shop so I'm doing all the dirty work on the race truck here. The interior is burnt, melted, oh and did I mention that since all the windows are blown out it's full of water, so it's like soot sludge. I'm pretty sure just being inside of this thing and unbolting the seats, dash, steering column, etc is going to take about 10 years off of my life. It's like smoking 10 packs a day with no filter for 10 years... I think the nastiest part about it is the seat foam. That shit melts and turns into a sticky goo that doesn't come off of anything (including your hair, arms, etc) I've spent the last 2 evenings stripping this thing ( I intentionally wait until evening for 2 reasons 1) it's cooler and 2) when I get done working I can't do anything else because of how filthy I am, it takes about an hour to get cleaned up) I've got most of it done now, the seats are out, carpet is out, interior trim, dash, etc. I removed the left side fender and fender apron and all the bolts on the right side, but still have to cut the apron reinforcement off in order to get the right side off. I've got the engine all disconnected and unbolted, but I still need to get under it and get the transmission unbolted, then hook the cherry picker up and get it out, shouldn't take more than an hour or so. After that I still need to get the pedal box out and then it's off to the car wash. I'm going to town it down there with my tow bar and completely wreck that place. I'm thinking I might wait until after dark so nobody can see the crimes I'll be committing on humanity. This gunk is bound to wreak havoc all over their water reclamation system... I think you'll be surprised at how clean this thing is actually going to be once it's all washed out. The carpet and interior trim really took the brunt of the fire, smoke and heat. The red paint on the floor, doors, and interior still looks nice except for the roof, it's toasted like a campfire marshmellow. After the pressure wash dries I'll shoot some ospho all over everything so it doesn't rust. I'm pretty enthusuastic, so I might continue to cheat a little bit by spraying some rustoleum on the burnt spots... All in all it's going well, I feel like I'm ahead of schedule on this thing, I figured I'd be doing all of this at midnight the night before I left for Alabama. Bert (Rhodes) took TrooperChris's Trooper (the one with the Camaro motor and rear sway bar still on it) home to Missouri and has pulled the motor and trans for me and is supposed to come down this weekend with that stuff and the rear sway bar and rear stainless braided brake lines. He's only slightly more on top of his schedule than I am, so I'm not holding my breath. All in all things are looking good, everything is in order, I've still got some work to do, I've got to pull the front inner structure off of another Trooper and then pull all the stuff we'll be using off of it (brakes, steering, etc) I figured it'd be best just to replace all that stuff with nice clean stuff... I'm going to be tied up the next few days, but I'm planning to post up another video within the week once it's all gutted, pressure washed, etc...
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| Gen1Trooper_Jax | Oct 6 2013, 06:14 PM Post #11 |
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awesome! |
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| zudorf | Oct 7 2013, 05:12 AM Post #12 |
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Good, that means there's room on the supervisory team for me! |
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I didn't want to show up at Bob's place down in Alabama and make a huge mess all over his nice shop so I'm doing all the dirty work on the race truck here. The interior is burnt, melted, oh and did I mention that since all the windows are blown out it's full of water, so it's like soot sludge. I'm pretty sure just being inside of this thing and unbolting the seats, dash, steering column, etc is going to take about 10 years off of my life. It's like smoking 10 packs a day with no filter for 10 years... I think the nastiest part about it is the seat foam. That shit melts and turns into a sticky goo that doesn't come off of anything (including your hair, arms, etc) I've spent the last 2 evenings stripping this thing ( I intentionally wait until evening for 2 reasons 1) it's cooler and 2) when I get done working I can't do anything else because of how filthy I am, it takes about an hour to get cleaned up) I've got most of it done now, the seats are out, carpet is out, interior trim, dash, etc. I removed the left side fender and fender apron and all the bolts on the right side, but still have to cut the apron reinforcement off in order to get the right side off. I've got the engine all disconnected and unbolted, but I still need to get under it and get the transmission unbolted, then hook the cherry picker up and get it out, shouldn't take more than an hour or so. After that I still need to get the pedal box out and then it's off to the car wash. I'm going to town it down there with my tow bar and completely wreck that place. I'm thinking I might wait until after dark so nobody can see the crimes I'll be committing on humanity. This gunk is bound to wreak havoc all over their water reclamation system... I think you'll be surprised at how clean this thing is actually going to be once it's all washed out. The carpet and interior trim really took the brunt of the fire, smoke and heat. The red paint on the floor, doors, and interior still looks nice except for the roof, it's toasted like a campfire marshmellow. After the pressure wash dries I'll shoot some ospho all over everything so it doesn't rust. I'm pretty enthusuastic, so I might continue to cheat a little bit by spraying some rustoleum on the burnt spots... All in all it's going well, I feel like I'm ahead of schedule on this thing, I figured I'd be doing all of this at midnight the night before I left for Alabama. Bert (Rhodes) took TrooperChris's Trooper (the one with the Camaro motor and rear sway bar still on it) home to Missouri and has pulled the motor and trans for me and is supposed to come down this weekend with that stuff and the rear sway bar and rear stainless braided brake lines. He's only slightly more on top of his schedule than I am, so I'm not holding my breath. All in all things are looking good, everything is in order, I've still got some work to do, I've got to pull the front inner structure off of another Trooper and then pull all the stuff we'll be using off of it (brakes, steering, etc) I figured it'd be best just to replace all that stuff with nice clean stuff... I'm going to be tied up the next few days, but I'm planning to post up another video within the week once it's all gutted, pressure washed, etc...
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