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Got a few jobs done today:
Fettled the new bumper hangers and fixed the number plate lights while it was off.
Cleaned and polished the exhaust, then slash cut the tip.
Cleaned thirty years of super gnarly grime out the engine bay. However bad you think that job was, it was worse.
Cleaned the car.
Waxed it in a kind of how-much-can-you-get-on-in-one-ridiculous-coat kind of way.
Put tyre shine on the bumpers, which worked surprisingly well. I think.... it was dark by then, I'll find out tomorrow I guess.
So, the engine bay, and three hours of torture. Two cans of Gunk foam barely made a dent. The underneath of the bonnet was the worst part. I started using a sponge, within two minutes I had turned it over to the scourer side, and within 30 minutes I had destroyed the entire six pack and had to go buy another twelve. I ran out of Gunk and had to create my own super-cleaner with whatever I had lying around; wheel cleaner, kitchen cleaner, car wash, bug and tar remover, washing up liquid, bicycle degreaser and cream cleaner. All in the one spray bottle :lol:. It was awesome. F*cking stings when it goes into cuts though.
I'll get some better pics of the bay and bumpers tomorrow, the light went and my phone camera wouldn't focus.
Exhaust before
Exhaust after
Engine bay before
During
After
Fettled the new bumper hangers and fixed the number plate lights while it was off.
Cleaned and polished the exhaust, then slash cut the tip.
Cleaned thirty years of super gnarly grime out the engine bay. However bad you think that job was, it was worse.
Cleaned the car.
Waxed it in a kind of how-much-can-you-get-on-in-one-ridiculous-coat kind of way.
Put tyre shine on the bumpers, which worked surprisingly well. I think.... it was dark by then, I'll find out tomorrow I guess.
So, the engine bay, and three hours of torture. Two cans of Gunk foam barely made a dent. The underneath of the bonnet was the worst part. I started using a sponge, within two minutes I had turned it over to the scourer side, and within 30 minutes I had destroyed the entire six pack and had to go buy another twelve. I ran out of Gunk and had to create my own super-cleaner with whatever I had lying around; wheel cleaner, kitchen cleaner, car wash, bug and tar remover, washing up liquid, bicycle degreaser and cream cleaner. All in the one spray bottle :lol:. It was awesome. F*cking stings when it goes into cuts though.
I'll get some better pics of the bay and bumpers tomorrow, the light went and my phone camera wouldn't focus.
Exhaust before
Exhaust after
Engine bay before
During
After
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