Love the way you wrote that up....LOL way to make it comidic even though it was a pain in the ***, nothing better than trying to stay positive during such a bull crap problem....

 

Good job and kudos to you. If anyone tries to give you that BS load of "Oh if I had done it then I would've done it this way and it would be perfect", tell them to blow it out their ****. Looks great, can't wait to see more progress!

 

Thanks guys!

It's looking better everyday! But now that I have the ambition,
I run out of money! It's either work 100+ hours per week
and have lots of cash and be a walking corpse, or work
40+ hours per week and be broke, but be physically able
to do some truck work!

LOL, What to do, what to do???

What do you guys think of the Jimmy Grille? It was only
30 bux on Ebay and it is perfect, not a flaw.

Here is the seller, he is in Detroit Mi, he has really cheap
prices for both parts and shipping. microplaterssalesinc items - Get great deals on Bumper Covers, Grilles items on eBay Stores!

He has GMC and S10 grilles for 30 bux! They are better
quality than the (OE) grille I bought from LMC. LMC charged
me 150 bux for the grille itself, +39.99 for shipping and an
oversized charge of an additional 20 bux! I sent it all back
when I saw the lousy quality part they shipped. It was full
of "Booger-Spots" and scratches. I know they deal in Chinese
junk, but they charge OE prices!

I figured this Ebay part was going to be junk as well...
It was from a company called Juong Wen... I saw that
and thought, "Oh great, more Chinese bull$h!t" but I was very,
very surprised when I opened the package and I could see my
ugly *** reflection in the chrome!

This guy is well worth looking up. He carries parts for a
bunch of vehicles. The only thing that confused me was,
they are a plating company themselves. Why would they
sell Chinese made stuff when they could do it themselves?????

I received my answer, but I didn't like it... He (John) told
me his company only pays $20. for the imported grilles,
they (Microplaters) mark them up 10 bux to make a
small profit. "OK fine with me, but why don't you make
them here?" I asked... "Well if we were to make them,
we would have to charge $85 just to break even!" We
as Americans are too Fvcking greedy! We want something
for nothing, but we are not willing to work for it! That is
why the rest of the world hates us!"

Damn, how's that for a response?

Anyway, what do you guys think of the grille and new
fender? I am going to put on the "New" drivers fender
hopefully tomorrow...

Just for fun, I covered the drivers fender rust spots which
are just as bad as the passenger with duct tape and painted
over it... It looks to be expected up close, but from a distance,
it's not too bad!

Wanna see it? LOL

 

I went from this...



To this...




This weekend I am going to give a good color-sand and buff to blend all the paint. And I am going to replace the left front fender too.

Here is the left front with the painted duct tape hee hee.

Before..


After..

More random pictures.





Not much left of this fender!

Let me know what you guys think...

 

Well I finally got the chance to yank the left fender. I started right after Muscle Car (Spike TV) this afternoon at
1:00 and I spent all damn day changing this fender...

Removing it was simple, fight rusty bolts and yank off crusty fender. Play with oil filter unit, washer bottle
and the Monsterus ABS box. Play in the 4 and a half inches of oil, dirt, shop-rag, nastiness under the oil filter assembly...






Look at the Gunk!!! I found 4 shop rags! But under all this sludge
and dirt, I found clean shiny steel! The only clean steel on the whole damn truck!


This POS fender wouldn't line up for $hit... After about an hour of dicking around, I found out why, ...I noticed a little stamp
on the backside of the fender, it said "Made In China" Damn repo fender, no wonder why it wouldn't fit!

After beating and tweaking for another hour, I still couldn't get anything to line up, so I just drilled new bolt holes where
the Chinese ******** should have... At the top front bolt I have a .750" spacer I made and I re-drilled the hole about .250"
over and up from the pre-drilled hole. The big fender washer covers most of it. It doesn't look too bad, considering the fender
is about .500" (1/2") too short!
That's a Matco 3/8" ratchet!!! A bit of a panel gap eh?


Hood alignment was an absolute pain in the weenie! To get it this nice took over an hour!




Look at that HUGE panel gap!






I didn't get done until 7pm! Six hours to hang a damn fender. But it looks Bitchin' in the dark! lol

 

Here she is getting frisky!




Need more do ya????


OK Well here ya go...

 

How the heck did you do that with awd?

 

Front axle was removed.

 

Wow that quarter panel was chewed up. Kinda funny you have close to the same set-up as I do at my house I have a white S10 and my mom has a red escape the exact same model as the one in your picture.

 

Hey Trip, i understand the rust thing that you talk of. i'm northeast side of Detroit. my 92 sunbird had a rust hole through the back door so big i could reach through it no problem to unlock the doors....

great work you have there so far