My '95 2530

[warthog5]

3.5L Twin Turbos. 6speed trans

365Hp @ 5000 420Ftlb torque @ 2500

Badges?......."We don't need no Stinking badges"

Before:

After:

 

[Megabyte]

Sweet. Twin turbos!

I want to remove the badges from my Jeep this summer.
What did you use? Heat, solvent, or a combination?

I saw an Unlimited in FL this Mar that had the 'Sahara' and 'Unlimited' badges removed, and I liked it.

 

[warthog5]

Fingernail. Once started they came off easy with very little glue residue left....Isapro achoile will take it off too.

Heat gun "May" be needed? Remember these were not sitting in the sun yet and have been on about 2 weeks.

 

[Megabyte]

Well, mine will be 2 years old this Memorial Day, but I'll try the fingernail method first.

Googled "Isapro achoile" and got nothing. :?:

 

[Brent]

Isopropyl alcohol or isopropanol just saying

 

[warthog5]

Yep spell check would not fix my spelling... It will take heat if it's been that long....But there is also a eraser wheel available from auto body supply

They work very well.

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/3m-a ... 10070229-p

 

[Megabyte]

I'll try the heat gun once it warms up a bit.
It worked well on the 18 year old pinstripes on the boat when I removed them. :wink:

 

[warthog5]

Another Tow in Yesterday with the Parker.

Yesterdays adventures after looking for the Illusive Cobia

Towing one in.......For those that do not recognize who that man is.
His name is Captain Tom Frosch...Fighter pilot for the US Navy and flys Navy Blue Angel #1
smile emoticon
That is Ed Cox & I in the pix with Tom

 

[Megabyte]

Nice job Bobby.
The CPT might want to have his ground crew prep his boat for him. :lol:

 

[boondoggle]

Mega, He

ain't going to be happy that you busted him back to O-3.

 

[Megabyte]

Mega, He

ain't going to be happy that you busted him back to O-3.

O3 is an LT
CPT is an O6

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ranks/officers/o-rank.html

 

[boondoggle]

You hung out at APG too long... CPT is the Army abbreviation for the O-3 grade of Captain. Whereas, CAPT is the Navy abbreviation for O-6 grade of Captain.

 

[warthog5]

Yep.

 

[Megabyte]

:shock: :roll:
Yea... I hung out there for 27 years.

 

[warthog5]

Color matched Line X Extreme Spray in Bedliner. The Line X sticker on the window was removed as soon as the pixs were taken.

 

[Megabyte]

Looks like a good color match. 8)

 

[warthog5]

Well while are the Northerner's are getting their boats in the water. We fished yesterday and then brought the boat home for some yearly maintenance.

 

[Megabyte]

I'm in, and fishing too.

 

[warthog5]

What I've been working on.

Got the boat at the house to do maintance. Everyone else is having a great time on the water.

I had 3 known bad places in the cockpit deck. I fixed those. They were not just gellcoat cracks.

When I ground them, the crack went all the way thru to the core and you could see a slight color change in the wood from moisture.

I feel that if the boat sat in the weather all the time I may have been putting a deck in it....Something I don't want to do until I have to
replace fuel tanks......Knock Wood!

Upon farther inspection I found a total of 22 cracks. I think they developed from age and people jumping off the dock down into the boat.

Ordered new pie plates also.

Bought and tinted gellcoat.

 

[Megabyte]

Looking good Bobby.
Did you add the non-skid into the first coat of gelcoat, or will that go on later?