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Old Aug 20, 2009 | 01:59 PM
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Looks great. Nice Job!!! Once in a while you just have to take a dry rag to the calipers and wipe off the brake dust.

Originally Posted by BenUK
That looks a 1000 times better. Good work, but be careful - that's how my body-off started
mine started when I just wanted to replace the warped rotors and pads...then I saw my #4 body mount support was rusted thru...so the body had to be raised a few inches to replace...so much for the few inches...might as well take it all the way off and paint the frame
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Old Aug 20, 2009 | 03:37 PM
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thanks, you were the pioneer so you reverse a lot of credit as well.
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Old Aug 20, 2009 | 04:49 PM
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Just a little tip/trick for you guys doing this... If you lay down a bunch of stripes of masking tape on a clean sheet of glass you can put your stencil over it and exacto the pattern out. Then peel up the "sheet" of tape gently and transfer it to area/part you are painting. You'll get much cleaner results and it works much faster.
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