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So what you're telling us is that not only does your wife make you clean the cars ... but the bathroom too ... Hmmm ... maybe why I have yet to marry :p:

Haha ... I should have been more clear ... the 4 hours was for clay AND prep I spent probably a good 1.5 hours claying ... it was pretty mucked up! Prep includes: washing the first time washing after clay washing to start each day About an hour filling chips with touch up Taping...

when I first got my mounty back in 2000 I was living in NY ... that salt capital of the world!! Anyhow ... I had the wheel weight issue and corrosion ... I used a dremel polishing tip with some compound then just sealed the area with duplicolor clear coat touch up paint ... the one with the...

Thanks for all the comments .... yes Meguiars for the win ... the 105 and 205 are great compounds ... the Lake Country pads make a big differnce too ... the 205 goes on like warm butter and finsihed off real sweet! Zaino is here ... but ahhh ... to find the time to start layering it up for...

Truck looks great .... I finally got around to detailing and doing some paint correction on the new X Sport ... She was trashed I posted up a new thread about the process and products ... http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=246956 Here are a Few teaser before pics .... see...

Ok ...so the thread about the orbital buffer and the points raised got me to thinking I should post up a thread and some pics as I finally got to detail the Sport I bought 2 months ago. First the warning ... DO NOT use a rotary polisher until you get a few panels to practice on. It is not a...

Yea I would go straight car wash soap ... or as suggested for the first time a Dawn wash ... after you have got to your last wax or sealer step ... any time you wash with Dawn will strip that finish. When you clay bar it will pull the little bit of wax in the wash of the surface You can...

Head on over to autopia and read the forums ... TONS of great info from guys who have been around the biz forever Like NIN stated ... its all about the prep ... gotta start with a clean canvas or its all for not

WOW ..... I guess that 95 percent of the PROFESSIONAL detail shops across the country missed the memo on the Porter Cable being junk!!! If that machine is such junk ... please suggest what is better ... specifically ... you might be able to name 3 that are equal or better ... all of which...

Ohhh and yea ... what he said .. lol See a lot of it out here in Phoenix ... cars just bake away in the sun If it is a small enough spot ... you should be able to buy yourself some time On the spot I had on my mountaineer it never got worse or developed anywhere else ... but that is...

While a good deal of this is accurate information ... you can often times achieve achieve a swirl free finish in ONE step ... just depends on the depth to which your defects are and the technique you are using. Meguiars has a whole slew of diminishing abrasive compounds that make it possible...

If you truly want to polish and remove swirls from any automotive finish you need the right combo of abrasive and tool. As was previously stated the orbital will do nothing to improve swirling and in fact could very well make it worse Restoring a paint surface is somewhat of an art form ...

The true downfall of such machines is that there are so many variables that will actually make your paint finish WORSE than it was before you started!! It make take a few washing to see it though. If your surface is not contaminant free then the orbital will merely use those contaminants as...

I once had a similar problem in a very small area ... 3 inches square or so ... Here was my fix as recommended by a body guy I know ... Step one I did a fairly light wetsand with 3000 grit to eliminate the higher edges ... by fairly lightwe are talking less than five minutes using left -...

Did you have these issues prior to making your repairs? What happens if you turn the heat on? Does the temp drop? If so you probably have air in the system and need to "burp" it out How long into or idle or slow speed before your temp starts to rise? Could very well be your fan clutch...

Couldn't have done it without you guy's help! It was really interesting to see what swapping out each item did to help get me back to normal ... every step brought me a little closer! Thanks again ... off to work!

Thanks to EVERYONE for their insights and suggestions! Problem totally solved ... no issues now... runs a little under half way up the temp gauge .. no more increased engine rev to spin the fan ... no more rising temps ... driving like a dream At the end of the game I replaced the following...

Sooooo ... I guess the moral of the story is that when you buy a used vehicle ... ya never know what you'll find So I pulled the radiator ... that black finish ... apparently was painted on with a rattle can and done without cleaning the radiator first ... serious crud in there Not to...

I put in a brand new fan clutch and rpm tested it ... it is engaging as designed Too many stories of electrical fan issues ... in Phoenix temps will hit 120 so not so sure I want to take a chance on an electrical ... seeing I drive about 200 miles or more a day with AC running a good chunk of it

Yeah ... I think there is internal blockage too ... was a bunch of rubber stop leak gunk up at the top when I first flushed the system Prolly get it swapped tomorrow

Ok ... sooo Fan clutch did not solve all issues After a 30 min drive it was fine ... until it sat at idle for about 15 min then bammm the temp climbed almost to 3/4 of the way ... I love how the engineers at ford designed a system so that as it gets hotter they rev the engine higher to spin...

As luck would have it I grabbed a severe duty one .... I wanted to see if I could grab the one off my 5.0 mounty but that bolt wasn't moving and I didn't have time to mess with it Preliminary results are in ... I can manipulate the fan clutch to engage and dissengage ... its been running...

Ok so after some tinkering and testing over the past 2 days I think the final piece to my puzzle is going to be the fan cluth and not the radiator based on the following When the engine is hot or cold the resistance on the fan when spinning by hand does not change After doing the whole...

Hopefully a cooling disaster and not an uninsured illegal who can't drive :) Well I worked again today and the darn truck started gettin up to 3/4 hot and would cool as I drove Weird that I let it run for a good 30 min last night ... took her for a drive then let it sit another 30 min and...

Yeah .... thats what I did when I put it all back together ... the housing part is actually 3 pieces fo plastic all bonded together from the factory ... there was no way to get it all apart and figure out what was what ... I suspect what happened is someone previously used a bolt that was...