I like the new avatar pic

 

I'll take a look terry.

I like your idea to put a washer over the bearing. Probably help dissipate the impact Evenly.

 

Thanks buddy. It's not as cool as yours though.

 

Swapped out my broken rear seat belt on Saturday. I hit it with a hammer on accident when I was fixing my rear fender wells. The darn spring came flying out at me when the hammer hit it. haha

So I finally found one at U-Pull it last week when I was there. That was the first one I had come across in about a year that was in good shape or actually had the option of the retractable waist belt.

Again, like a rookie, I did not take any pictures.

 

Nice score on the seat belt! That's one thing I miss is having a pic-n-pull near by. We moved to this area last year, and the nearest yard is in Spokane, a 2 hr drive lol.

 

I hear you there. Its definitely nice having access to quite a few different yards around the area. And two of the u-pull-its are actually the same company but on opposite ends of town. So if you pay at one place, you can use the same slip to get into the other for free, as long as it is with in 24hrs.

 

Well....... I found a rust hole in the fender well. so I guess I'm going to have to sell it now.







Yeah right!! I'm going to start tearing out the carpet in te morning to assess the situation.
Here's the hole. About the size of a pea now.


I am going to remove the carpet and fix the rust, then bed line the while thing. I saw on a thread here someone made diamond plate seat backs then bed lined those also. I think that's the route in going to take.

 

You can thank all the nasty salty chemicals on the roads during the winter months for that buddy!! Youll get it fixed!!

 

I hate that crap they put on the roads!!! I'm hoping I don't uncover a bunch of other hidden rot.

I have been putting off doing the rear bed liner for awhile. I guess this is the motivation I needed.

 

Yea mines horrible on the rear qaurters, i keep puttin it off.

 

I just dont want it to get to far gone to actually save it.

 

Well I have been putting off this rust repair for awhile now. I knew that there was going to be other rust when I took the carpet off.

I went to Auto Value this morning to get some supplies in addition to what I already had.


Before the teardown.


Got the rear trim piece removed and pulled the carpet back some. I was really surprised to see how nice the paint still was under there.


Carpet totally out of the back.


A little rust around the seams where the panels come together.





I decided to take the top off to make the whole process easier. All the bolts but one came out great.


All the areas of rust that I am going to address.










Also took the back rest of the rear seats out and also the seatbelts.


And here is some of the worst rust. But still not that bad.






I just might paint the topper while its off as well.





Hsd to take a break to start class. The kids are tearing down engines this week.

 

I do not remember if I said it already, but I am going to spray in some raptor liner when its all done and repaired. Im hoping to have the rust totally fixed today, and start prepping for bed liner tomorrow or Thursday.

 

Good luck with that rust. I also have some rust that I need to take care of. Nice engine just go ahead and put that in the 4runner.

 

I am also planning to do the same thing I am working on that right now

 

Thanks man. I am going to hit it hard during lunch today. I am hoping to get it all cut out and re welded back up so I can lay some liner down tomorrow or Thursday.

That SBC has been torn down so many times by students, I think its as loose as a hookers privates on a Saturday night.

 

Man I need some of your skills to fix my rust spots. And haha.

 

This looks awesome, remove the rust or bust, keep the updates coming...

 

I got lucky in that my area doesn't salt. My truck is mainly rust free. The previous owner also pulled out all the carpet just like you are doing and put in some kind of liner. The problem is that he must have done it a couple of years back because there are sections in the foot wells that have rubbed off and the stock paint is now exposed. I'm wondering if I can simply add more liner to the spots that are exposed or if I should remove all of the liner and put a brand new coat of it on the entire bed.

On a seperate note. While doing some searching for winches I came across a post you made on a thread about smittybilt saying that you were going to go with their 10k winch. How did that end up working out for you? I'm torn between WARN's m8000 and smitty's 10k winch.

 

Im sure it will look great when your finished!!I wonder what mine looks like!!!???Im scared to look