Good morning thinkers!!- its the downhill side to the weekend!!- AK, glad you had good run to the NP- we drove our old ‘89 T-bird up to Port Clinton (Lake Erie) one year, just about the time the mayflies were heavy- good night! I almost had to use a putty knife to scrape them off when i got home!!
Nice little project, Farmer- it’ll make a nice little scooter when your done!
White, you might have to make another u-tube channel- The Frankenstang Project!
Fellers have a safe day at your salt mine!
TTYL!!

 

LOL, I have a hard enough time keeping up with one. I don't think I could handle another. I'm a one man crew... my daughter said she'd help, but that's not happened for a while. She set up my Instagram account, helped with the logo, and then dropped off the planet. She's too busy with her friends. So, I do the work, film, edit, swear, cuss.... all by myself (and it shows). Almost every channel I watch has at least two people. I have one video cued up for tomorrow.... I have 6 or 7 that are sitting on my desktop needing to be put together/edited. Some of them get streamlined though, I'll admit.



I was just watching Paul's channel.... and man did he find one helluva unit to own. I'm kinda getting a crush on these old 'Yota's.

 

I'd say this is pretty well stripped down for paint.

 

Dang man , you don't mess around. It's nice working on a clean truck tho....it's sort of like cheating lol.

A lot of work regardless, ready for the shoot, - looking great as always!

 

BTW, - bet you had fun removing those bed caps lol.

 

I at one time would have agreed with you, but a buddy at a local body shop showed me the body shop trick on how to pop them off in just seconds and retaining the insert tabs without breaking them. I had Red's off in no time. It's a bit tougher on the style sides beds, but the SCrews and Flaresides are really easy to pop off when it is 60 or warmer out. Warmer the easier as the plastics are malleable, so they pop off easily.

 

So...... The trick is?

 

This is what I was shown and tried.

Fiberglass beds, you just pull from the front to back and once the first tabs release, then he slides a pickle fork like tool between the tabs and it comes right up. On the steel beds. You start at the rear, clear the inner tab and clear the back 2 first. Then it is fairly easy after you get past the 2nd pair of tabs. Slides it up the middle between the 12 to 14 sets of double tabs. As he pushed it forward, the center rose a bit and released the tabs, 2 at a time. Easy as hell. I would have never have thought of that idea.

 

Found out O'Reilly here now turns rotors for 15 dollars.... for some reason, the rotors that I just put on the 2011 Escape in December are already getting wonky on me.

 

I'm saving that in the "body" folder under "03 F150." Thanks!