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    Sorry to hear of your troubles. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has situations like yours. My weekend was really similar to yours as in this won't work. Fix that, on to this, fix that, then that, and this. It's never ending. Haha
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    Went on a service call at work to a town near by me to work on a tractor and I also needed to get a front radiator splash pan off an stripped out 3600 from there. Wasn't too bad to get off and when I got home I quick sandblasted it and was going to paint it, then I thought I better see if it fits good first. Good thing because it will need some re vamping to get it to work right because of my radiator. My fender wells also seem to be a bit different as they don't have some holes that the other pickup did for the splash pan. I ran into this b/f with this and how fenders bolt on. I picked up my fender wells from Craigslist and they may be off a older 3100 and just a bit different but workable.
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    Got my splash pan sand blasted, trimmed to fit and painted. Can you guess by the pics which side was pitted up? It's not a show piece so I am fine with it. I was drilling out some holes in it before I painted and the 5/16 bit caught the bit ran into my hand pretty good. I think it would have been a stitches thing during the day but I wasn't going to make an emergency visit over it $$$$$$$$.
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    That had to hurt, hope your tetanus shorts are up to date.
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    Ouch! I say that a lot out in the shop, BTW. +1 on the tetanus shot.

    The pan looks good, though.
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    You can't take on a project like that without spilling a little blood. Lets hope it heals quickly, spring cruising is around the corner!
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    Times four. OUCH!

    We've all done it tho'... take care and watch for infections..
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    I call it the blood price, every time I take off a rusted bolt on the 48 ford I usually end up with a cut somewhere!
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    Man, sorry to see the injury. I almost had a tard moment my self the other day when I was trying to drill out a ring terminal and the drill bit caught and ripped it out of the vice. My finger almost got the bad end of that. Those drills can mess you up so quick it is nuts. Nice work on the apron. Quit sending that white mess down here too. It has been snowing the past 2 mornings. It is March now.
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    drilling out ring terminals ... that certified certain death!

    But we've all certainly done that once or twice on a Sunday afternoon, or at 10 pm!
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    To be honest, I've been a mech for a lot of years now and I don't hurt myself nearly as often as I used to. I think a person learns how to do things after awhile and not get hurt, but they still get you from time to time ( aka ring terminals) My hand is healing up nicely thanks to my wife saying I should take a latex glove and cut the fingers off and wear that at work to keep it clean. That worked great. It actually never hurt that bad, I guess the nerve endings only go down so deep It pretty much just feels like a bruised hand after a person is dumb and used their palm for a hammer. Went to a HS band concert tonight and hopefully get to work on the 53 tomorrow night and Sat.
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    I'm trying to get in the habit of wearing thin latex gloves when working around oil/grease, but it is a hard habit to beat. These dirty diesels make your skin very unique looking.
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    Had a good day working on the 53,I got the door windows glued in their tracks. FYI I am a messy painter and anything to do with a caulk gun so there will need to be some razor blading later. I traced my alt wire that was energized with the key backwards and had to clip it out of the fuse box and run it to the key switch. I don't know how much more a Painless harness is over an EZ , but it's probably worth it, not a fan of EZ anymore for more than just this reason. I finally removed the front coils to cut them down a bit. They had my shocks topped out and there was so much spring stuffed in there I had no bounce. I ended up cutting one coil out which seems about right. I finally got to use my floor tie downs in my shop 10 yrs after I built the shed They worked awesome for taking the springs in and out. I put my dome light switches in the door jams. I kept them to the inside a bit so the door wouldn't have to slide on them too much when closing. The Mrs and I put the radiator splash pan on last night and then we got the front bumper and splash pan on. And my hand is healing up nicely after tying to drill though it Wed.
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    one more pic of the splash pan
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    I keep corona oitment on hand. Heals faster than anything else.

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