hey mister
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- First Name
- Marty
- Truck Year
- 1978
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- C10
- Engine Size
- 350
...46 year old undercoating, puddled on it?
You can not make this up...
Today I pulled the wheels to paint the rims.
And before you ask, No, I did not take the tires off. And No, I did not take the weights off either.
So, somebody had painted the rims white, but just painted the show side.
I found a set of Moons for it, but the full size hubcaps had scrapped off paint so putting on the Moons would show all the ripped up paint and that won't do.
So, a wire wheel and 120 ssndpaper preped the show side, but the other side was just ugly. As I'm trying to clean it up, I see this area about the size of a coffee cup bottom and it looks like melted plastic or something and it's really hard. Then it hits me (again)...undercoating.
And for the past 46 years that puddle of schmootz has required more wheel weight to be added just because some knucklehead was too lazy to do the right thing and just remove it.
You know...start with a clean wheel.
Ya just can't make this up.
Tomorrow will be getting the tires rebalanced.
Sheesh....
You can not make this up...
Today I pulled the wheels to paint the rims.
And before you ask, No, I did not take the tires off. And No, I did not take the weights off either.
So, somebody had painted the rims white, but just painted the show side.
I found a set of Moons for it, but the full size hubcaps had scrapped off paint so putting on the Moons would show all the ripped up paint and that won't do.
So, a wire wheel and 120 ssndpaper preped the show side, but the other side was just ugly. As I'm trying to clean it up, I see this area about the size of a coffee cup bottom and it looks like melted plastic or something and it's really hard. Then it hits me (again)...undercoating.
And for the past 46 years that puddle of schmootz has required more wheel weight to be added just because some knucklehead was too lazy to do the right thing and just remove it.
You know...start with a clean wheel.
Ya just can't make this up.
Tomorrow will be getting the tires rebalanced.
Sheesh....
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