lil_Blue_Ford
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Last look before the teardown!
And now that I got to spend a few hours here and there on it....
Found it's a little different than tearing into an RBV, the core support is bolted in not welded and the inner fenders are part of the outer fender. Which means you have to unbolt EVERYTHING!
Only thing holding the core support in right now is the two body bolts. They didn't look extremely bad so I tried hitting 'em with the impact, but no luck. No big deal, I'll just hit them with the torch. While I have the torch out I'll get the coil buckets torched off. While taking everything off I discovered that my main ground wire looks like it's seen better days so that'll get replaced and I'll take care of a few other misc things that I noticed too.
My dog got a bit upset when I tore into "his" truck, lol. I keep telling him it's for the better.
And now that I got to spend a few hours here and there on it....
Found it's a little different than tearing into an RBV, the core support is bolted in not welded and the inner fenders are part of the outer fender. Which means you have to unbolt EVERYTHING!
Only thing holding the core support in right now is the two body bolts. They didn't look extremely bad so I tried hitting 'em with the impact, but no luck. No big deal, I'll just hit them with the torch. While I have the torch out I'll get the coil buckets torched off. While taking everything off I discovered that my main ground wire looks like it's seen better days so that'll get replaced and I'll take care of a few other misc things that I noticed too.
My dog got a bit upset when I tore into "his" truck, lol. I keep telling him it's for the better.