terryford8
CEG'er
Well I have a rant on after finding my beautiful new SVT front bumper cracked on my MercSVT
Took my car to get undercoated hoping to fight off rust caused by road salt
When the young guy drove my car up onto the hoist the front was almost scraping against the ramp
Told the guy and the owner to be extremely careful when backing the car OFF the lift
They told me it was no problem but it scraped anyway and I was upset
My biggest mistake was not checking the car more carefully afterwards
Flash forward a month and I see the bolt holding the fender linner to the front bumper was just hanging there. Cleaned off all the muck and saw the bumper had split and the bolt then pulled thru
Frig it was late at night and I had just finished off the SVT body kit with newly painted SVT rear bumper
Now it was one step forward one step back
Anyway i pulled out the inner liner and cleaned up the area so I could reinforce the area with fibreglass
Trying to find the right mixture of glass resin and hardner was hard in my cold unheated Canadian garage. The super strong smell of the resin took me back to my youth building Meyers Manx dunnebuggy bodies.
Anyway when i am sure the area is strong enough it will be time for the beautiful Blu_Fuz bumper supports I bought from Matty K
While waiting for the first coat to dry I decided to change the oil on my Suzuki GS 1100
A couple of yrs ago i gave my brother my Kerker Exhaust system and bolded on Vance&Hines unit.
The Kerker allowed access to the oil drain plug
The V&H unit doesn't and u have to drop the system to change the oil..
Should have know better than to expect this old(63 yrs) body to enjoy working for six hours straight and today seems every muscle in my body is screaming at me....YOU STUPID OLD FOOL....:laugh:
Took my car to get undercoated hoping to fight off rust caused by road salt
When the young guy drove my car up onto the hoist the front was almost scraping against the ramp
Told the guy and the owner to be extremely careful when backing the car OFF the lift
They told me it was no problem but it scraped anyway and I was upset
My biggest mistake was not checking the car more carefully afterwards
Flash forward a month and I see the bolt holding the fender linner to the front bumper was just hanging there. Cleaned off all the muck and saw the bumper had split and the bolt then pulled thru
Frig it was late at night and I had just finished off the SVT body kit with newly painted SVT rear bumper
Now it was one step forward one step back
Anyway i pulled out the inner liner and cleaned up the area so I could reinforce the area with fibreglass
Trying to find the right mixture of glass resin and hardner was hard in my cold unheated Canadian garage. The super strong smell of the resin took me back to my youth building Meyers Manx dunnebuggy bodies.
Anyway when i am sure the area is strong enough it will be time for the beautiful Blu_Fuz bumper supports I bought from Matty K
While waiting for the first coat to dry I decided to change the oil on my Suzuki GS 1100
A couple of yrs ago i gave my brother my Kerker Exhaust system and bolded on Vance&Hines unit.
The Kerker allowed access to the oil drain plug
The V&H unit doesn't and u have to drop the system to change the oil..
Should have know better than to expect this old(63 yrs) body to enjoy working for six hours straight and today seems every muscle in my body is screaming at me....YOU STUPID OLD FOOL....:laugh: