![]() 10/10/2015 at 19:03 • Filed to: Bedliner | ![]() | ![]() |
After spending 4 hours trying to get the stupid spare tire off, and I discover it’s as rusty as I thought albeit structurally sound.
Then after a ton of wire brushing
And masking
I bedlined(?) it
Stupid mobile
Actually came out perty gud.
HHope fully this keeps the rust down a lil
![]() 10/10/2015 at 19:19 |
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Good idea!
![]() 10/10/2015 at 19:24 |
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Hope you got off all of the rust, because bedliner traps moisture?
![]() 10/10/2015 at 20:31 |
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Looks good, but I would have hit it with rust converter forst. The stuff is cheap, and easy to use. Just paint it on and let it dry.
![]() 10/10/2015 at 22:34 |
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Yeah whoever thought mounting spares under the vehicle was a good idea was a moron.
![]() 10/11/2015 at 00:33 |
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Yep! I did that actually!
![]() 10/11/2015 at 09:04 |
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It’s more whoever thought using a mechanism that’s impossible to operate if it gets rusty. I spent 2 hours under my truck in an auto zone parking lot borrowing a 15 mm socket and pulling out the single 2 inch long loctite’d bolt that holds the whole thing on an 1/8 th turn at a time.
Of course this bolt is directly over the tube the pulley actuator runs through so I had to hack saw that out. It was a loooong day.
![]() 10/11/2015 at 09:07 |
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Well most of it, plus some rust converter
![]() 10/13/2015 at 01:09 |
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Actually, it’s when it gets so rusty that it just falls off when you’re driving.