What did you do to your Gen 1 today?
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From: Land of the Toxic Avenger
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Yesterday, I de-salted the undercarriage and body of the brick with Sulfamic acid. All that nasty salt is a gone... Then I washed the body with regular car wash soap. Love it when they look as good as they do.
This weekend I hope to fix a few electrical issues (lights and other stuff), but it's supposed to rain for the next several days.
This weekend I hope to fix a few electrical issues (lights and other stuff), but it's supposed to rain for the next several days.
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From: extreem southern ILL
Just got back from a 4 day trip with my daughters in Ol' Patches. Brought them down to Seattle WA for a concert they wanted to go to. It was just shy of a 1000km's one way, and then with running around our old town to visit friends and family I racked up a total of 2015km's for the entire trip by the time I got home this evening. Fuel mileage average was 20.26mpg for the entire drive.
No issues with the truck, other then locking my keys in the truck once....been many many years since I did that. First tried to get in through my slider window...nope it's a really good set-up on that one! Eventually I Managed to pop one of the vent window locks and get in, but it was pouring rain the whole time....
No issues with the truck, other then locking my keys in the truck once....been many many years since I did that. First tried to get in through my slider window...nope it's a really good set-up on that one! Eventually I Managed to pop one of the vent window locks and get in, but it was pouring rain the whole time....
I'm sure it was a nice warm slow rain though.
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From: Prince George, BC
I parted out a 69 Chrysler 300 years a go and I found 5 sets of keys hidden in the car, 3 magnetic holders, and two sets taped up in the wiring harnesses.
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Yesterday, I de-salted the undercarriage and body of the brick with Sulfamic acid. All that nasty salt is a gone... Then I washed the body with regular car wash soap. Love it when they look as good as they do.
This weekend I hope to fix a few electrical issues (lights and other stuff), but it's supposed to rain for the next several days.
This weekend I hope to fix a few electrical issues (lights and other stuff), but it's supposed to rain for the next several days.
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From: Land of the Toxic Avenger
My walk behind salt spreader was encrusted in salt and calcium chloride. Stuff melted it right off. Cool to see it at work like that.
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Just funnin' you. Not had all my coffee yet...
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No issues with the truck, other then locking my keys in the truck once....been many many years since I did that. First tried to get in through my slider window...nope it's a really good set-up on that one! Eventually I Managed to pop one of the vent window locks and get in, but it was pouring rain the whole time....
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I have a spare set locked securely away in a Supra lockbox that is secured to the truck.
http://www.suprasystems.com/Products/Pages/SupraC.aspx
The Kidde lockbox is almost identical except a lot cheaper.
Kidde Portable 3-Key Box with Pushbutton Combination Lock, Clay-001404 - The Home Depot
Kidde Permanent 5-Key Box with Pushbutton Combination Lock, ?Clay-001409 - The Home Depot
You could use one of these if you were going to mount it under the truck on a frame rail.
Kidde Auto Permanent Mount Box with Pushbutton Combination Lock, ?Titanium-001324 - The Home Depot
This would be a lot more secure than in a magnetic Hide-A-Key.
Whenever I have a rental truck the first thing I do is secure the second key in the bed in a lockbox incase the first one is lost since they want $250.00 to come and bring you a replacement.
Jim