I hate body work too...rust sucks...
I hate body work for several reasons...
1.I suck at applying bondo...
2.I hate sanding and grinding(always get some crap in my eyes,and sore arms)
3.It NEVER looks as good as it was originally before it rotted..
4.Its VERY costly!..torches,welders,paint,and bondo are not cheap!(30$ a gallon for "tiger hair" or "mar-glass filler here,and paint is at least 40 a gallon!)--a mig welder costs more than an arizona rust free truck!
5.Time consuming--I have better things to be doing than patching rust every few months...I'd rather be enjoying life,not getting cancer from inhaling bondo dust and paint fumes..
6.dirty hard work,tough on clothes and your backbone!
7.cuts and briuses --goes hand in hand with sharp sheet metal..get infected easy too--rust== TETNUS !!
8.It never lasts!!--a few months later,its as bad as before,or WORSE!
9.I have little patience--I figure why spend hours making it look good,when it takes only seconds to destroy it!..and someone will hit it anyway,most likely..
10.All the guys who CAN do good body work give you grief about your efforts.
Now,I just pop rivet or braze,weld or bondo a patch over rusted areas,and in many cases I never get beyond the "primer' stage as far as paint...I feel its a waste of time to make it pretty anymore..now I just patch things "good enough" for an inspection sticker,and to restore structural strength...I'm no longer anal about it being pretty--only functional!(Though I WOULD enjoy having a rust free rig someday--but I'll never be living here with it if I get one!)
On my 82 K20,I had to build new door bottoms,the 8" from the bottom was GONE when I got it..spent hours making new ones from 16 ga.galvanized steel...I could not weld it due to previous repairs made with an inch of bondo,so I put them on with self drilling screws..got it painted in red primer,then our "historical" winter came with 25 storms--
Now its all pitted and rust holes have appeared in the front fenders where blisters were last fall,and the "new" door bottoms got so salted,they turned white as a ghost,and most of the paint fell off..patches I put around the stepside fenders where the fuel filler door goes were so rusty they looked like it had been bare steel since 1982 already...
I never got around to doing the drivers side rear fender,rotted around the gas tank door too...I am sick of chasing rot and rust...my 79 C10 was a "puff" as far as rust when I got it 3 years ago,very rust free for its vintage..but even THAT is getting a few spots that need more attention,and I garaged it,and barely drove it at all in the winter....I hate MA and its truck dissolving climate,and all the salt they use here...
P.S. Chicks dig body damage??--if they do,it must be because they think you wont scream at them for smashing your truck up if its already dented all over!..(most of the girls I dated refused to ride in my trucks--they didn't care to be seen in a primered rotbox,and did not care for the diesel fumes!--WIMPS!...not "my kind of woman"!!
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