The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk I’ve got work for you! ; )

After a long winter (and for some of you, perhaps a few years of it) of wrenching, welding and knuckle busting hard work, it’s now time to update your Gallery page. Peggy says that she now has some time to put them in there. So this is your chance to update pictures and especially the text to your page. Remember, the more you tell us about what you've gotten done, tried, added, taken off -- the better it will be for who are searching the internet to find you! Perhaps their only hope or encouragement for what THEY are trying to do, too.

We already have seen some very nice progress on a few trucks, but we would like to keep it all up to date. Reading the forums daily, I know that there are a few new ones around too (over a 1000 since last year). So wait for that rainy day and get something together for the Bolt and the other 11,000 boys and girls that want see to it too.

Also we could use some Tech Tips. About what? Whatever you doctored on your vehicle of which you think that you did a half decent job. Something that is specific to your model, engine or suspension or something of general value. What ever you found out about your problem can help others to prevent to take the first wrong step. We don’t expect literature, just a few guide lines, warnings, and the don’ts -- to help another Bolter out or give him the courage to start on his truck with this subject. If you can add a few pictures even better, because we like pictures and sometimes 1 arrow can say more than a page of text. If you've got a great tech tip but DON'T have the pictures, ask in the forums if someone has something that will work (we've done that, to make a Tech Tip make sense -- especially for some of our novices out there). The pictures help out a lot.

What I personally would be interested in is a “safe” way to undo simple dents and cracks in my “used to be” fenders. They are a work of art right now, but I think I would like them a bit more like the originals before I apply some paint. Is there a way to prevent the metal from stretching too much and if it happens, can you shrink it? What tools to buy and what should I look for. I know every dent is different, but how do I start and what should I definitely not do.

The advantage of a Tech Tip is that you can print it and take it over to the shop and check it out with your truck and all relevant data handy. Some of us aren’t that experienced with working on a truck. We just love them and have to learn lots to keep it in a usable state, preferably road worthy. I have “helped” a few guys with their Tech Tip, just to see if I could get it, knowing for sure that when I can understand it, anyone can. You’re often so familiar with the problem that you take big steps to explain it and I slow you down
Peggy is a great help with the layout, finding the right pictures and she can glue it together in proper English until it looks like a Tech Tip.

Even if you have an addition on a Tech Tip or a different way to get to the result, we are interested and will help you to get it in there.

The last resistance I can think of; you’re not too sure about it and you don’t want your name under it. We can arrange that too. It’s always a team effort, but our team of 11,000+ Bolters is getting a bit too big to do it all by heart. What you think is logic, the next guy sees as pure Greek, so even “simple” things have their value. Help a (future) Bolter and share advice in a Tech Tip; you are the last guys with hands on experience on the older models, what if your grandkid or great grandkid wants a truck like Gramps had. I know you guys(and ladies) won't let the art of "Stove Bolting" get extinct, you like your Bolt too much.

Thanks for your time and if you need a hand, I'm a fast two finger typer, with no real English education, but I'll make time to get it in the Bolt.

Regards
Richard

Bump, I'm not letting this slide out of sight, 11000 members and only a few pages up, that can be done better.
A picture of your bolt, how you got it and what you have done sofar, we don't care about the paint job not done yet or the rust in the rear, we love bolts too! That's not hard to do, is it ?

I'm actually working on a couple of tech tips for Peggy... Though she only knows about the one.

As for the gallery page... Now that I've got the starboard headlight bucket on, I can take a real picture...

I've even amassed enough info for a "saga".

I think.

We should have taken the time to photo more of our project, as I'm sure not all have seen a big truck taken down to nothing but the rivits on the frame. I'll have to see if we can put something together. Every day here is almost a tech tip.

My lil' corner of the gallery was updated in the last month or so...


However, I usually just update my little page that I have for my truck, which is always in my signature line with the latest pictures or wrenching sessions info.. That way I can add/delete/modify and I don't have to give Peg more stuff to do.

hehe.

Plus, my little page is linked from my gallery section...

-W

Thanks Guys,
Sounds like you're getting busy, I know that there are people with regular updates and Tech Tips are coming in all the time. I know that many of you have their own website with the updates in there and even some Tech Tips on it and it is hard enough to keep that updated with things you already know and have done, I’m guilty to that too. I rather spent those hours tinkering at my bolt. And then there’s a whole world of other things happening besides the bolt, like visiting grandkids (repair the go-kart, again), the garden, which always needs work and then that ridiculous past time they call work. I’m just hoping to cut down on the nice &%$#%$@ moments with my truck, while taking it down to the basics. While enjoying that feeling and after applying a bandage for the part that got hit, I snoop the Bolt to find out that the Tech Tip about removing the tire from a split rim is already there (a search on split rims will give you plenty info, but it needs to be condensed to a Tip) and that the guy did it without bruises and cuts. So I start reading the thread, get distracted and before you know it, the sun sets and I have to get ready for another game of “work” the next day. I admire the guys that make progress, no matter what happens. A real fighter I think is ChevyAsylum, he has his “distractions”, but is right at it, the moment he is free or feeling good, to start again, and his website is a perfect log of his progress. No job too big and still finding time to update the site. That makes me feel like a third grade bolter, so I got to work on that. He, I’m learning here too!
Thanks for the response and I’ll see you or your work in the Stovebolt
Regards,
Richard

Woogeroo: I know and a nice website too, I lost plenty of hours there, but it doesn't show up when I do a search on the Bolt for a certain thing and that's a shame, it's there, but I can't find it, just like that %$@4@ wrench I just used and now it's gone until I clean the shop.

One more, snooping the Bolt for the new mail I see a Tech Tip, its result(the next guy giving it a try, just what we're after) and an update right in this message Now how can I find that back when I'm that far with my truck?
Things like that, that can make a hundred or more Bolters happy with their truck.

bump

Truck26,

Although the dents in your picture are a little too much for this method, you might want to check out removing dents with dry ice. I have not seen it done, but from what I've heard is that on smaller dents that don't have a crease, you can put dry ice on the dent and it will pop back into place. I think they use that method on hail dents. Apparently, most of the time it won't damage the paint(there is probably not a garantee on that part). I have been itching to try it out, but haven't yet. Maybe some of the guys here know something about it?

He, Thanks Builder, that’s worth trying on my Dodge (lots of hail damage there ). To keep bull semen, we have a big (4 gallon) tank with, I think, liquid nitrogen or something like that, very cold. I’ll see if I can take a small amount out to do some experiments.
Thanks for the tip.

Just don't be handlin' that dry ice with your fingers. It'll burn ya!

Let me know how it works Truck'26.

Not too well, got burned a bit :rolleyes: when trying to take it out on a spoon, walked over to the truck and dropped a bit on the spot of my choise, it evaporates real quick so I added a bit more and a bit more and gone.. My liquid was gone, keeping it in one spot is the hard thing, it almost "boils" and runs very easy anywhere. So dry ice might be better. No real results or damage on the hood, so it was fun and as normal I'll heal


Have a great weekend and write something for the BOLT

Bump, I keep at it. Dutch, wooden shoes, wooden head, wouldn't listen, come on guys, 11.000+ members and only a few in the bolt. I wanna see them all. How many in the Gallery Peg ??

1553 is our best count.

Peg