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98 Metro "Dump Truck"; Starting With The Rear Wheel Wells
Topic Started: Sep 11 2010, 11:59 PM (5,991 Views)
bogs
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Duct tape heals all wounds

He has got da Moose, but vot about squirrel ?
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Potter
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shit you down and butcher the moose i'll bring the tree rat gravy to smother the mashed potatoes with :drool

Edit: now we gotta find someone to bring the beer and we'll be set

roast moose , mashed potatoes and tree rat gravy, keg o beer, bonfire... sounds like my kind of party
Edited by Potter, Jul 16 2011, 03:16 PM.
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:D

I gots da beer
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mazade
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The moose is alive & kickin, seriously. This was only a few days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX_kkWobiJA

Just uploaded this to youtube today since it standardizes the video type for everyone.
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:D

Lol Nice. thats funny
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mazade
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Wow I'm slow.
The metro-dump-truck has gone up on the a-frame, and come back down already.

These hangers and future tow-points were welded & bolted to the front uni-body frame pieces that the bumper attaches to. All of the steel in the nearby area got reinforcing welds to handle the hanging and whatever else may happen with this little tank(*ahem* coffin).

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Here's the temporary butt-rest for the metro to sit on once it gets up in the air on the A-frame.

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A good power-washing by my dad... this came before we did a light sandblasting on the whole underside: primarily the exposed metal, since most of the mid-underbody had a decent undercoating.

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After the first protective coatings - KBS Rust Seal

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And if you-all thought that using trees up to make the A-frame was bad, check out what I did to the local butterfly population... :x

Gosh there were an absolute TON of these white-pine-butterflies around this year, and after you'd lay down a layer of paint or anything they'd just swarm in for some crazy reason.

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Well before the wheels touched the ground again, the underside was "topcoated" with SEM Truckbed Liner (Kit # 39630) Having used a few different brands/types of bedliner/underbody coatings(Herculiner, Gator Guard, Duplicolor) one very nice feature of this stuff is that it has no particles in it, so there's much less potential for your 'shutz' gun clogging due to settling or clumping of the material while spraying. It spatters pretty well and you do end up with a nicely textured surface that has a really tough rubbery feel to it. Nice stuff, but its between 2 and 4 times the price of other options out there, depending on sales, etc...

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Since then about the only thing we've managed to do is wax the interiors of the unibody structure. Dad did half of them one day, and I did the other half of them a couple days ago.
Eastwood Heavy Duty Anti-Rust

Well, duh, one weekend when I was somehow not around, one of my brothers came by and flexed his body-work skills for the smacked-up drivers side door & rear wheel well area... it's much further along to looking really nice.
Edited by mazade, May 26 2012, 11:30 AM.
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Love it. Field dressing a metro! For some reason, the ponderosa comes to my mind.
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Good bye


If you are still looking for 1" rope a good place to check is the power company. Our derricks use 1" rope with a 15000 lb breaking strength. They are 120 ft long and have eyes on both ends. We change them if they get snagged and roughed up. We have 7 derricks in our yard and we change about three ropes every years due to damage.
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Great work!

Non-human creatures just don't make wise decisions from time to time. :shake Kinda looks like a "road kill' badge of honor. :-/ I remember a "paint job" you could get for mountain bikes back in the late '80s that was Road Kill and even had bits of hair in it. :lol
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Either the snow on the mountain peaks is permanent, or it's begun! :O Better get crackin'! :gamerz

Nice work. :thumb Love the set up. :cheers
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mazade
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OK it's been far too long since any update has been given.

Sadly, these pictures are from last year, and I just noticed that I didn't put them out here.
Rebuilding the rotted underside of the passenger door...

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Now, from just a week ago, I've begun to work the outside face of the passenger door. Body filler first, followed by a bedliner below the body-line/door-guard.
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Quick trivia: just how big of a TV can you fit inside a metro, and have it survive? Don't worry, this one did survive :)
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Looks good from the pics :thumb
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A little update of work from about 2 weeks ago, before it got all rainy.
First, I hafta admit that I don't really know what I'm intending on doing with the wiring that I'm running... except to say that I KNOW that I want to have options available for all kinds of goofing off, be it electronics, or having some serious battery power available at the hatch(jump start a vehicle that is parked behind me? - perhaps a rear winch?).

I'm running 6ga primary wire(one power lead for driver & passenger) from the battery, back to the hatch. It will be segmented, but well joined(soldered-throughout) and protected.

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There's a shielded 4-conductor cable which I might use to connect a home-made amp for some smaller hatch-speakers I'm mandating. :P
And, yes, that is Cat6 ethernet cable. There may be a car-computer setup some year, or this could be providing passengers the option of internet access through a 3G/4G net connection.
Eh, oh well, but at least the infrastructure will be there if it's needed. :thumb
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Before adding 1/2" foam/beadboard for noise & heat insulation, I needed to remove the 1/4" of construction adhesive that the headliner was directly held-on with. That stuff was/is bonded quite well to the roof, so the only non-gouging option I could come up with was a heavy wire-cup attached to a grinder. As you can see in the picture above, it worked quite well.... and the finished result is even better. B-)

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This project has been progressing rather slowly due to every other project around here... but there are some things I need to photograph... such as the whole engine-bay being filled with its appropriate parts, and the Wideband O2 sensor setup, the new exhaust being attached/hung. Wow, I am so not keeping up with things.
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t3ragtop
Sep 12 2010, 09:56 AM
Johnny Mullet
Sep 12 2010, 07:44 AM
I seen the rear wheel wells in my 98 Metro when I removed the interior panel. I put the panel back on and acted like I never seen it.
note to self: don't pull the rear interior panels. :P

if i don't see it, i won't be compelled to fix it. ^o)
But YOU will find/ see it, because of your tendency to restore the entire car better than stock. :)

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