Ray Cecil Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Any way, I'm dead and it's not my problem anymore. Thats one way to stay positive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 Any way, I'm dead and it's not my problem anymore. Thats one way to stay positive! YES! Please be careful! I, too, have known people who had serious problems from tooth or gum infections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorsai Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Just be careful Jim. Ive heard of people getting infections in their mouths and it kills them. Something about the blood path from the mouth to the heart. The infection has a high risk of entering your heart and causing heart failure. That is what a heart doc told me once. This is 100% true, and no joke. I had to have open heart surgery ~10 years ago, and they wouldn't open me up until after my dental health had been validated (fortunately, my dental health is generally good). Also, had I needed a valve replacement, I would then have needed prophylactic antibiotics before any future dental surgery. Fortunately I got to keep the valve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Just be careful Jim. Ive heard of people getting infections in their mouths and it kills them. Something about the blood path from the mouth to the heart. The infection has a high risk of entering your heart and causing heart failure. That is what a heart doc told me once. This is 100% true, and no joke. I had to have open heart surgery ~10 years ago, and they wouldn't open me up until after my dental health had been validated (fortunately, my dental health is generally good). Also, had I needed a valve replacement, I would then have needed prophylactic antibiotics before any future dental surgery. Fortunately I got to keep the valve. Now that's Patina! I believe as a society we have reached Peak Patina!...but I still like it sometimes. Fake patina is not really my thing, but I don't mind the look of it on some trucks. I thought this one was interesting...guy says it looked like that when he bought it in 1991...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salans7 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Now that's Patina! I believe as a society we have reached Peak Patina!...but I still like it sometimes. Fake patina is not really my thing, but I don't mind the look of it on some trucks. I thought this one was interesting...guy says it looked like that when he bought it in 1991...lol. The paint on these trucks wasn't the best. It was even worse in the 90's. My dad worked for the body shop at the local Ford dealership around 1995-96 and he used to tell me about all of the trucks that were coming in for warranty repaints. I remember the tops of my fenders on the F150 were experiencing paint failure. The clearcoat was 100% intact, yet the brown paint underneath was bleeding away. And that was on a 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 The paint on these trucks wasn't the best. It was even worse in the 90's. My dad worked for the body shop at the local Ford dealership around 1995-96 and he used to tell me about all of the trucks that were coming in for warranty repaints. I remember the tops of my fenders on the F150 were experiencing paint failure. The clearcoat was 100% intact, yet the brown paint underneath was bleeding away. And that was on a 1980. http://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/file/n48587/Paint_fade.jpg Vary few cars & trucks had clear coat on them back in the early 80's. GM also had issues with paint pealing off in sheets just driving down the road. I know as the hospital I worked at had 2 trucks and my 86 K5 all had pealing paint. Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salans7 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 The paint on these trucks wasn't the best. It was even worse in the 90's. My dad worked for the body shop at the local Ford dealership around 1995-96 and he used to tell me about all of the trucks that were coming in for warranty repaints. I remember the tops of my fenders on the F150 were experiencing paint failure. The clearcoat was 100% intact, yet the brown paint underneath was bleeding away. And that was on a 1980. http://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/file/n48587/Paint_fade.jpg Vary few cars & trucks had clear coat on them back in the early 80's. GM also had issues with paint pealing off in sheets just driving down the road. I know as the hospital I worked at had 2 trucks and my 86 K5 all had pealing paint. Dave ---- I think someone mentioned that to me years ago but I must have forgotten. I wasn't around back then. Haha. The paint flying off in sheets for GM sounds much worse than Ford's bleeding issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Vary few cars & trucks had clear coat on them back in the early 80's. GM also had issues with paint pealing off in sheets just driving down the road. Yes, right. I believe GM started using base/clear sometime in the late 1980's, and Ford followed a few years later. I forget the exact timeline, but I know we're talking late 80's and into the early 1990's. I had a 1990 Toyota pickup years ago, and it was factory painted in a single stage. I believe my '84 F150 was painted with single stage enamel. I talked to an old guy a while ago that spent 30 years working in one of the Ford plants in Canada, and he was in the paint shop all through the 1980's. He was rhyming off all of the paint thickness specs at the time and said that there was shockingly little paint put on those cars and trucks. He said it was no wonder that the sun burned right through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Vary few cars & trucks had clear coat on them back in the early 80's. GM also had issues with paint pealing off in sheets just driving down the road. Yes, right. I believe GM started using base/clear sometime in the late 1980's, and Ford followed a few years later. I forget the exact timeline, but I know we're talking late 80's and into the early 1990's. I had a 1990 Toyota pickup years ago, and it was factory painted in a single stage. I believe my '84 F150 was painted with single stage enamel. I talked to an old guy a while ago that spent 30 years working in one of the Ford plants in Canada, and he was in the paint shop all through the 1980's. He was rhyming off all of the paint thickness specs at the time and said that there was shockingly little paint put on those cars and trucks. He said it was no wonder that the sun burned right through it. I left my dad's shop in 83 and only remember painting some foreign cars maybe high end cars (been a long time ago), no trucks in BC/CC. I would also say late 80's to early 90's when the BC/CC really started to hit the market on cars not trucks. Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 I left my dad's shop in 83 and only remember painting some foreign cars maybe high end cars (been a long time ago), no trucks in BC/CC. I would also say late 80's to early 90's when the BC/CC really started to hit the market on cars not trucks. Dave ---- Actually, I think several of the colors were clear-coated. From our page on Documentation/Specifications/Exterior/Exterior Paint Codes here are the US paint codes. Note the statement in the Notes at top that any paint indicated by a theta, which is an "o" with a slash through it, is a clear coat color. So, for instance, Code 14, Light Charcoal Metallic, would have been cleared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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