Got it cleaned up a bit more this morning, looks a whole lot better than it did yesterday!
Drivers side, no rust behind the front seat mount on the drivers side-


Passenger side, it is lightly rusted all the way to the rear seat-



i picked up a couple of cans of primer and a wire wheel from ace for a grand total of $5.36

 

Ok, so the drivers side was a little worse that i thought earlier, but its not as bad as it could have been.it is rusted through in a few places, but i got everything wire wheeled/sanded down and primered with a little bit of white paint on top. I also pulled the endcaps off of the front bumper and am getting it ready to be repainted.

 

here is how she sits now-

Drivers side-

closeup of rust through-


Passengers side-

closeup of the rust through-


And my work on the front bumper, its needing a good bit more sanding and paint-


i read about someone valuing their labor at $100 per hour...lol... if that was true than i would have about $800 in labor just into the floor now, plus another hundred in the front bumper! schweet!


Im also trying to decide what else i want to do, bedliner or sound deadener... i kinda want to just pick up a gallon of bedliner and go to town but at the same time i kinda want to go with something like this-

 

I got a bit more work done on the front bumper (not that you can really tell)


and i added on the pair of Ooga horns ive had lying around



yes, yes im as mature as a 6 year old kid.

 

I can not for the life of me figure out where the water is coming in from...

 

fml, just went out to turn it around and saw a few ounces of water in the pass floorboard...

 

water on pass floorboard could be cracked heater core

 

its water, not coolant and it only happens when it rains and when i washed it a little bit came in.

 

oooh gotcha. windshield molding?

 

thats what ive been thinking but i ran the hose against the windshield for 20 minutes earlier and no change other than that little but a few hours later but by that time i had run it all over so im still unsure where its from

 

Got a few layers of herculiner down yesterday-



my ******* forgot to pull up the tape so i ran out last night and got it pulled up but i realized today i made a mess of it



luckily 20 minutes of scrubbing with a rag and paint thinner got rid of it!

 

Herculiner is for rust right?

 

herculiner is truck bed liner, it is not made to be put on rust, i had already gone through and removed/fixed all of my rust issues.

 

Last night I replaced the champion plugs with at least 35k on them with new NGK plugs, it fixed my rough idle and the old plugs had worn to at least .055 gap each. Im about to run out and get the supplies for another oil change, im going with a mopar oil filter and ive yet to decide on the oil.

Edit- 2 of the new NGK plugs were defective, the "arm" at the end was a little twisted (i didnt think much of it when installing them) and when ran under pressure it made the arm collapse into the electrode, but i got it straightened out enough to make it to the parts store tomorrow to buy a couple new ones.

 

spent some time in paint figuring out how i want to do my latest project. any guesses on what specifically it is? (and yes, i know i left off the inline fuse coming from the battery in the diagram.)