Northern Baja
07-27-2004, 09:58 AM
So momma wanted a white rub rail instead of black. The boxes have taken up space in the garage for 3-4 months. So I had yesterday afternoon free why not. Well.....
11:30 - 2:30 I started with the first 90% of the job, removing the old rub rail and cleaning off all of the silicon. The rivets Baja used apparently didn't break in the right stop often. About a third of the rivets had the steel pull sticking out, making the task of drilling the head a pain. [smilie=106.gif]
2:30 - 5:30 Put the new back rail on. For whatever reasonnone of the ends were cut straight, so I had to run down the street and buy a little miter box to get these things cut right. ran a bead of silicon and riveted her down. It looks better already, but Jody wouldn't let me stop yet.
6:00 - 9:00 The neighbors are lookin and laughin at this point because the geaker down the street is still at it. I wasn't actually sure how the insert went in, but I did pretty much figure it out that autoinstall wan't an option. I ran down to check the net and found one tech source that described pushing the insert around, I tried that for about 8" and could see that wasn't the anwser. No tools for this around and I didn't want to scar the rubrail up getting it in, so I basically wicked it in about a half inch at a time. By 9:00 the sun was down the plastic had cooled off, so I quit for the night about 80% around our 21 footer.
I'm going to have about 11:00 hours in this adventure before it's over, but the results are well received. [smilie=071.gif]
So how long does it take a person that actually know what they're doing to do a job like this? Are there tools or tricks to installing the insert that I'm spending about 4 hours on?
This is a job best when its history.
My biggest mistake was I didn't send Jody for more beer till after 8:00 (when the liquior stores close here). [smilie=101.gif]
11:30 - 2:30 I started with the first 90% of the job, removing the old rub rail and cleaning off all of the silicon. The rivets Baja used apparently didn't break in the right stop often. About a third of the rivets had the steel pull sticking out, making the task of drilling the head a pain. [smilie=106.gif]
2:30 - 5:30 Put the new back rail on. For whatever reasonnone of the ends were cut straight, so I had to run down the street and buy a little miter box to get these things cut right. ran a bead of silicon and riveted her down. It looks better already, but Jody wouldn't let me stop yet.
6:00 - 9:00 The neighbors are lookin and laughin at this point because the geaker down the street is still at it. I wasn't actually sure how the insert went in, but I did pretty much figure it out that autoinstall wan't an option. I ran down to check the net and found one tech source that described pushing the insert around, I tried that for about 8" and could see that wasn't the anwser. No tools for this around and I didn't want to scar the rubrail up getting it in, so I basically wicked it in about a half inch at a time. By 9:00 the sun was down the plastic had cooled off, so I quit for the night about 80% around our 21 footer.
I'm going to have about 11:00 hours in this adventure before it's over, but the results are well received. [smilie=071.gif]
So how long does it take a person that actually know what they're doing to do a job like this? Are there tools or tricks to installing the insert that I'm spending about 4 hours on?
This is a job best when its history.
My biggest mistake was I didn't send Jody for more beer till after 8:00 (when the liquior stores close here). [smilie=101.gif]