the creek claims another one

guess
crappy cell pic this morning before i left for work. looks like i'm gunna learn how to reattach a fender flare. gotta call the dealer and see about some new clips. should i worry about the inner wheel well cover?

my buddy fried his fan trying to use it as a propeller instead of a cooling fan

OUCH!!!!!!

Wow, that sucks! Spring Creek strikes again!

Wow, that sucks! Spring Creek strikes again!

man... I'm tellin ya, The Creek really really has something against our fenders!

just got off the phone with tomball dodge: these damn clips are $5.38 each and the book says i need 11 of them plus some of the plastic screws at $1.44 each. the guy on the phone thinks 11 is the amount for both left and right rears combined. So i'm going to clean it all up tonight and really look at what i need but damn they are expensive.

that's the stealership for ya.

sweet dude looks like you were getting pretty radical out there

Good excuse to buy some after market flares

before you buy from the dealership check out homedepot or lowes in their fasteners section i thought i saw some of those plastic screws there for like .58 each

thanks for the tip. if they work i'll pick up some extras at that price. i'm still working on getting everything clean. spent sevral hours with the pressure washer last night.

doing some research, seems those arrowhead clips were about .40 something cents each up until about dec of last year when they suddenly jumped to over $2 each. then sometime they jumped again to the $5 now. supply and demand

Put an oscillating sprinkler underneath it and let'er soak for a while. Boda bing boda boom, chassis is clean and y9u have some top soil.

Rescue1 wrote:

guess
crappy cell pic this morning before i left for work. looks like i'm gunna learn how to reattach a fender flare. gotta call the dealer and see about some new clips. should i worry about the inner wheel well cover?

my buddy fried his fan trying to use it as a propeller instead of a cooling fan

Don't guess you will going to the creek again this weekend?

trying to get some time to go maybe next saturday.

anyone up for loosing some fenders this Saturday?

jeeperjennie wrote:

anyone up for loosing some fenders this Saturday?

Shiloh is the following weekend- I'm going to avoid the creek. I don't want to break anything and not be able to go to shiloh

i'd like to go with ya'll (to shilo) but i gotta stay close to home for awhile. the one comming up next march looks like it may be doable. until then i can't be that far away from home so it's the creek for me.

i have plans for this weekend, plus it looks like i'll be buying and installing $60 worth of plastic clips

Rescue1 wrote:

i'd like to go with ya'll (to shilo) but i gotta stay close to home for awhile. the one comming up next march looks like it may be doable. until then i can't be that far away from home so it's the creek for me.

i have plans for this weekend, plus it looks like i'll be buying and installing $60 worth of plastic clips

Funny thing, last friday I went in to order a new, painted fender.

By the time was all said and done, they wanted > $300 for a painted fender (the $150 "paint-to-match" fender, is well, black and expecting that you will "paint-to-match".). So, I said, HRRRMMM. Turns out a set of 4 black textured fenders is $320.

So, I bought those. While the new ones came with new body-pins, they wanted $2/pop for the inner fender rivets. I told 'em to shove those up their....

I purchased some .310 plastic screw-style rivets (no need to replace them everytime, they are re-usable) for $1/ea, and I won't have to worry about those. Lowes was low on any of that stuff, bought most at pep boys, well, all they had, and still missing a few for the front (I have 2 black, 2 green fenders now =) - waiting on them to re-stock as autozone was out too.

Now, you don't actually _need_ all of the body-mount pins, it'll hold pretty tight with every other in place (don't ask how I know =) - but, it's hard to remove a functional one and place it elsewhere without breaking it.

You can, however, lift up _slightly_ on either end of the flat plate, and stick a small slotted screw-driver under it. Repeat on the other side, then you can push the two screwdrivers together and pull them back to remove it from the body. If it doesn't seem to give soon, stop pulling, the plastic is hard and breaks easily.

Jennie - I may be up for Sunday, or Saturday, have to check w/ the lady. If she's ok with going, then we'll go on Sunday, so I can work on a project I need to get done while she's working on sat. Otherwise, I'll have to go on sat and get behind on my project.

!c

I went to O'riley's this weekend and got some of the screws. For the plastic clips simply go down to HD or Lowes and get nut rivets...they are inserts typically used in wood applications and fiberglass so you don't overtighten and crack the material. Get some of those and some screws...no more clips..that's what I plan on doing when I ruin my clips.

good idear!