$500 Pickup - How to make your beater sweeter.
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Removing Clear Coat from a 35 year old truck I bought for $500 - first of a series on low cost ways to improve a Beater's appearance and performance. #beater #mechanic #savemoney
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Alright today on Repairs101 I picked up this 1987 - 2.9 litre V6 Ford Ranger for five hundred bucks! And, over the course of the next few episodes we’re going to tackle some problems and we’ll make this old beater just a little bit sweeter.
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Ok a little safety first up - if you’ve seen enough of my show you probably know already that I’m a firm believer in having spotter mirrors on both sides of all vehicles.
Now, I don’t know if this is just a Canadian thing or what, but we call them “Beaters” here because when it’s snowing out, you know, it sure beats walking.
Now I’m not saying this one doesn’t have any problems but for a thirty-five year old vehicle this thing has very little rust on it.
So check it out - it’s not the paint that’s damaged it’s the clear coat over top of the paint that’s been destroyed by ultra-violet light.
You probably already know not to take a power washer to any part of your vehicle - so I tried just hosing it off with regular hose pressure and I even tried scraping it off with a razor but the truth is it just digs in and you end up exposing bare metal.
So I just powered off what I could with a plexiglass scraper that I made.
After that I started wet sanding. First four-hundred grit. Then six-hundred grit. Then one thousand grit.
I accidentally exposed some bare metal by rubbing too aggressively so I applied some touch-up paint that I had left over from my last pickup truck.
Here I wiped the surface down with Methyl Hydrate to leave a clean and dry surface before I applied the wax.
Lay the wax as thick as you dare - just remember the thicker it’s laid on the harder it is to polish off. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
In Australia, we call em "beaters" because you can unapologetically treat em mean, and keep your good car nice and clean ;)
Cool, thanks!
We call them "beaters" in the North Eastern part of the US because we don't want to "beat" on our good car over the winter. We buy a "beater" to drive during the shitty cold months when your car gets all the salt on it. Not because it has to do with walking over driving.
Cool. But if you can't afford a nice car, it still beats walking.
I can confirm in Midwest US we call em beater with a heater too.
Nice to see you! Always enjoy your down to earth videos
:) That's one of the nicest things anyone ever said about my work.
I love old beater Ford rangers
You're Canadian, how is that thing not a rust bucket?
Its a west coast truck, spent its life in Vancouver and on the Sunshine Coast (of BC).
My beat up 350 thousand miles ranger is way better than my 75 thousand miles Saturn ion. Rangers rule haha
Rock on fellow Ranger enthusiast!
This truck is probably going for 4000 dollars now thanks joe biden
Some of that has to be from the work I did on it.