r/redneckengineering 4d ago

A little “auto body” work

Sick of big hole and sure as hell am not spending real money on it. Just a bit of spray foam and some JB Weld. Probably going to give some bondo a try then the whole truck is getting the ole tractor red

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u/Guygenius138 4d ago

Good enough for the guys my wife dates!

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 4d ago

Make sure she takes a shower before I pick her up from work. My truck is covered in glitter from the last time

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u/Hy-phen 4d ago

Fuck you, Shoresy!

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u/swordsith 4d ago

Tik tok rice and sanding typa fill in

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 4d ago

I at least stuffed aluminum foil in there first… but we didn’t have any ramen at home

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u/AKLmfreak 4d ago

Looks good from my house. 👍

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 4d ago

If it’s parked far enough in the back it looks good from my house too lol

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u/Halfbaked9 4d ago

I plan on doing the same thing to mine. I’ll use bondo instead of JBWeld.

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 4d ago

I was told by a another engineer that the jb weld is needed before bondo bc bondo over foam will crack very quickly. Supposedly jb weld is supposed to keep it from cracking 🤷 im down to screw around with it

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u/MaxBozo 4d ago

Might not even need bondo, the JB weld looks pretty high :)

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 4d ago

It’s gonna be a wide body kit

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u/Hurtjacket 4d ago

A redneck body kit with normal sized tires to boot.

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u/Zilla96 4d ago

At least cut the rust off so it doesn't spread before the spray foam and mesh

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u/TrhwWaya 4d ago

Its not bacteria...wait, is it?

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u/OrganizationProof769 3d ago

Oxidation

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u/TrhwWaya 3d ago

Does it spread based on touch or does it need air to spread?

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u/OrganizationProof769 3d ago

Not sure. Slather it in zinc and call it cooked.

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u/chop-diggity 4d ago

Good as new

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u/XROOR 4d ago

A small patch of that drywall mesh would do wonders here

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u/Jealous_Disk3552 4d ago

I know a guy...

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u/Adventurous-Equal-29 4d ago

If you're gonna do all that, why not put a patch panel in? Especially if you're gonna bondo it.

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 4d ago

Because life is meaningless and nothing actually matters so why not just fuck around

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u/StanislavGetz 4d ago

I say stuff like this all the time and everyone is worried i'm going to delete myself. While that's a nice option and all, it's just facts. Love seeing it out in the wild lol.

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u/bigalindahouse 4d ago

Hell yeah

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u/dude51791 4d ago

I feel like sometimes people just want to play around and see what happens, I've done it to my own car, once it's to the point of no return

I had a truck we use scissors to start lol

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u/Perfect-Composer4398 4d ago

Ole spray foam bondo fill job 👌🏻👍🏻🤌🏻

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u/Bardonious 3d ago

What, no ramen noodles?

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u/Fryphax 4d ago

You done fucked up. All that foam will do is make it rust even worse.

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u/GiantExplodingNuts 3d ago

It’s a 20year old work truck in Wisconsin….

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u/ThiccStorms 4d ago

you really pulled off a 5 minutes craft on this thing. and it ironically worked.

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u/cbelt3 3d ago

Whatever happened to the classic duct tape for bondo and rattle can paint it all solution ?