tbrumm
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My truck has been down for a while as I sent my IP and injectors out to Russ @typ4 for rebuild testing. While the truck has been down, I have been trying to get it ready to spend another 6 months in the salt. It is depressing how rusted everything gets, and it is a losing battle trying to fight it. About all you can do is slow the effects down a little, or just store the truck away in winter, which is not an option for me. One consolation is that the person buying that 60K fully loaded F350 with 6.7 Powerstroke is subject to the same climactic conditions as I am, and my truck is paid for! So, here we go - getting ready for winter!
The seam sealer on the body joints on the door thresholds and the door bottoms had deteriorated pretty badly. If I left this go any longer, major rust would have been the inevitable result. So, I stripped out the interior trim(Well, most of it anyway) and removed cracked and flaking seam sealer and cleaned things up a bit. Please bear in mind that I am not trying to get a show quality restoration paint job here, but I am just trying to mostly get the rust removed and get the seams sealed up better to keep the rust at bay a while longer. The truck is driven daily through the winter slop so it doesn't need to be perfect - it just needs to work.
Back when I purchased the truck in 2010. I sprayed the thresholds with Duplicolor Bed Liner, so that is the black you see. I could have spent days stripping that stuff off, but for the most part, it was still stuck pretty well so I left most of it alone. Time will tell if I should have stripped it. And no, I would not use the stuff again - there are better products out there, but live and learn. I did not get any pics of the door bottoms, but the skin seams were rusted and starting to swell because of the cracked, or non-existent, seam sealer, so these were stripped and cleaned up as well.
The seam sealer on the body joints on the door thresholds and the door bottoms had deteriorated pretty badly. If I left this go any longer, major rust would have been the inevitable result. So, I stripped out the interior trim(Well, most of it anyway) and removed cracked and flaking seam sealer and cleaned things up a bit. Please bear in mind that I am not trying to get a show quality restoration paint job here, but I am just trying to mostly get the rust removed and get the seams sealed up better to keep the rust at bay a while longer. The truck is driven daily through the winter slop so it doesn't need to be perfect - it just needs to work.
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Back when I purchased the truck in 2010. I sprayed the thresholds with Duplicolor Bed Liner, so that is the black you see. I could have spent days stripping that stuff off, but for the most part, it was still stuck pretty well so I left most of it alone. Time will tell if I should have stripped it. And no, I would not use the stuff again - there are better products out there, but live and learn. I did not get any pics of the door bottoms, but the skin seams were rusted and starting to swell because of the cracked, or non-existent, seam sealer, so these were stripped and cleaned up as well.