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Nice work Stu, looking goodererer.

AZ should be nice in April, I'll buy you a fan if that would get you to go.

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Very cool work- glad to see you still doing your thing.

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It'll be his biggest fan... :roll:

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Yeah? Make like a fan and blow me :flipoff:

Rather than pollute RCC with yet another thread about 2WD Rangers, I'll continue this one. Earlier I mentioned rust on the bedside:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...pscwzmxpdb.jpg

Yeah, that shit. Say goodbye to it:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...pswufuhpvc.jpg

Say goodbye to a good hunk of the bedside as well. Had to cut this much to get to clean(ish) metal, and repair the inner brace.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...psuvfncxev.jpg

Ford provides a handy moisture trap, in the form of closed-cell foam between the panels. Even though the panel is galvanized, 13 years of road salt has gotten busy in there.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...psiebo2phe.jpg

Rebuilt the inner brace with a piece that I made over the winter, pre-fit to the wheel arch

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps6hyx0hxl.jpg

Patch panel tacked in place. Welding blanket protects the plastic fuel tank. Later I went in and played connect the dots (la la la).

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...psg82gq9o6.jpg

And after way too much (or not quite enough) filling and sanding, and painting and buffing, I got this. It may not be perfect, but it's not rusty and I'm calling that good enough. I keep telling myself it ain't a show car and I'm not a master bodyman (both of which are somewhat obvious).

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Dang that looks pretty good

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I'd say you did a great job, looks good to me . Much better than what I've seen out of some of the body shops around here. "thumbsup"

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Nice job Stu."thumbsup"

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Good from far, far from good.

Etc.

:mrgreen: