a quick recap of the relatively uneventful last couple weeks:
levent scored a cardinal door handle plug from germany for me.
it was rainy and pretty cool most of the time so i didn't drive the car much, and it stayed under the cover. i came out a week ago to find a gigantic ant colony crawling throughout the entire exterior window trim - like horror movie status. i removed the trim and cleaned it all out, and luckily they didn't appear to make it inside the car. replaced the trim a couple days ago and while running errands this morning (parked the car in a hot parking lot) i came back out to the side of the car covered in ants again - must have been some inside the cavities of the car and the heat flushed 'em out.
blasted the ones i could see out at the car wash and found some more under the door sill upon further inspection. RAID took care of the rest - little bastards. hopefully they're gone for good now.
last week i also stopped by my body guy's shop to get a quote on painting the wheels and my passenger side mirror. he's ready for me, but i still need to finish sandblasting 2 wheels + 2 covers, so this morning i took everything out of the basement for inventory and cleaning. i also chose a paint color while i was there and decided to get the centers done in the same color as the lips & covers.
scrubbed several decades worth of brake dust off the cooling fins - one needs a small crack welded.
cleaned up the hardware.
one of the sandblasted wheels & covers.
and i discovered one of the front wheels is cast, as opposed to the other 3 that are forged. :(
i've waited so long to get these together and on the car i don't know if i can bear to try to search out a single forged front wheel, so i may just move ahead with the paint and run em this year, then try to find the replacement over the winter.
hopefully i can get this stuff to paint in the next 2 weeks, because my wife and i just bought a house and we'll be moving all next month.
that's all for now. :)
levent scored a cardinal door handle plug from germany for me.
it was rainy and pretty cool most of the time so i didn't drive the car much, and it stayed under the cover. i came out a week ago to find a gigantic ant colony crawling throughout the entire exterior window trim - like horror movie status. i removed the trim and cleaned it all out, and luckily they didn't appear to make it inside the car. replaced the trim a couple days ago and while running errands this morning (parked the car in a hot parking lot) i came back out to the side of the car covered in ants again - must have been some inside the cavities of the car and the heat flushed 'em out.
blasted the ones i could see out at the car wash and found some more under the door sill upon further inspection. RAID took care of the rest - little bastards. hopefully they're gone for good now.
last week i also stopped by my body guy's shop to get a quote on painting the wheels and my passenger side mirror. he's ready for me, but i still need to finish sandblasting 2 wheels + 2 covers, so this morning i took everything out of the basement for inventory and cleaning. i also chose a paint color while i was there and decided to get the centers done in the same color as the lips & covers.
scrubbed several decades worth of brake dust off the cooling fins - one needs a small crack welded.
cleaned up the hardware.
one of the sandblasted wheels & covers.
and i discovered one of the front wheels is cast, as opposed to the other 3 that are forged. :(
i've waited so long to get these together and on the car i don't know if i can bear to try to search out a single forged front wheel, so i may just move ahead with the paint and run em this year, then try to find the replacement over the winter.
hopefully i can get this stuff to paint in the next 2 weeks, because my wife and i just bought a house and we'll be moving all next month.
that's all for now. :)
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