Rusty's not very quiet cuda progress

So I've been playing with a really nasty rusted spare that was under my friends old truck he bought, 20 years hanging under the PU.
Forgot to take a before, believe me it was NASTY!
Front I think is close enough.........20250904_153913.jpg
That's about 7 or8 hours of blasting, wire wheeling cleaning wheels & even some 24 grit grinding!!!

Back is still a ways off 20250904_153944.jpg
The things I do just to stay occupied!
 
The other day I tried to find my parasitic circuit, took the truck for a spin to charge it up & noticed a bad rattle out back.
Crawled under, I wish I didn't, she's rusty back there, turns out it was the spare that was hanging loose & it might actually be worse than the one I did for my friend.
Never found the culprit draining my battery & now to see if that spare tire holder even turns anymore.
05 Ram 1500
 
Now on the brighter side of things, had the family over for my grandsons 11th B-day some how the 'Cuda came up, #2's wife said she wanted to go for a ride, the B'day boy asked also, his little brother said no thanks.
So we tooled around the side streets, a little goose of the pedal here & there, took em to my test the kick down spot & nailed it for a second or 2.
Good reaction from them both, they don't know it (I did thank Her) but they made my day!
 
He still uses p0or15, I actually texted him if it looked good enough to slop it on after some grinding, it's his job so I only do what I'm asked, other side still needs to be cut out?
The tools won't fit in that area behind the bolt also asked if I could pull the bolt to get to the back area?
 
Got a go on removing the shackle, did a bunch more grinding away on the nastiness, got it to where I could live with it.
Tomorrow, I slop some por15 on.
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Ok OK ,took a wire wheel & cleaned the old metal above the welding..........20251016_153253.jpgTried to connect that to the last round of welding???20251016_155206.jpgBurned up another 24 grit pad, ahhhh, close enough! 20251016_163937.jpgSlopped a coat of por15 on, I know that stuffs thin & runny but this seemed worse? 20251016_165932.jpg
 
68R/T said:
Thats thick metal, slow down your weld and let it burn in more.
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I remember plenty of welds that turned out like that. So then I would try to move faster so the bead doesn't heap up, which is never an improvement. The problem isn't that it's piling up, it's that it's not digging in.

Then when you grind that, before you get the bead where it needs to be, you start finding tiny pinholes in it. Ugh. I don't want to be thinking about that right now. :ROFLMAO:
 
I'm the blob master, even when I was doing sheet metal I made way too much work on the grinding end.
My bud seemed happy with that first round, He did all that, I guess all I can hope for is that we caught enough good ones that the rear end doesn't fall out when the guy drives away!
 
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