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Author Topic: How to shave antenna/rear window squirter - The "tennessee/texas" way  (Read 2086 times)
lemonrex
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« on: February 16, 2002, 01:21:57 AM »

I'm a redneck.  I don't talk like a southerner, I don't act like a southerner, and I don't go hunin'  fishin' or mudding like a southerner.  I do, however, think like a southerner.  This how-to is written with the assumption that the reader already knows this fact.  So don't write me back and tell me how incredible in-bred I am.  

OK, how to shave your antenna and rear washer squirter.


Tools needed:

Bondo (or a similar product)
Glaze and filler putty (you need this!!!)
plastic scrapers
sandpaper (as low as 80 grit and as high as 400 grit)
imagination (just like the rest of my how-tos)

Take off the antenna and rear washer squirter.  This is obvious.  Unscrew the two screws for the antenna and rip it out.  The squirter will come out with a good yank (be sure to disconnect the hose first).  You now have two holes (four if you include the two screw holes for the antenna).  Use the rough sand paper to sand down to the metal around the hole(s).  Sand out about 3 to 4 inches in each dirrection of the center of the largest hole.  This may not be possible in some cases.  Just use your head.  Feather the paint so you don't have an abrubt paint-to-metal edge.  You may need to use several different types of sandpaper to accomplish this.  Here's where I think like a red-neck.  The Bondo needs something to keep it from falling into the hole.  Well, industrial strength shop towels were the closest pliable object.  I shoved an entire sheet into the antenna hole (the large one, not the screw holes) and an entire sheet into the rear squirter hole.  It works, trust me.  Now mix up the body filler per company instructions.  Make sure not to mix up too much, it dries fast.  Fill in the holes using the plastic scraper.  Leave plenty above and around the openings so you can sand it down later. Let the body filler dry.  Attack the body filler with a rough grit sandpaper to bring it back down almost level with the car surface.  Use increasingly less rough pieces of sandpaper to smooth out and contour the filler into the desired shape.  You may need to add more filler and do this process again.  After the body filler is sanded the desired way, Use the Glaze and filler putty to fill in any of the small hoses left behind.  The plastic scraper is the way to go, again.  After the glaze dries, sand it with the finnest sandpaper you have (400 grit works well).  That's it.  Oh yeah, you might want to through some primer on there too.  Rust is not something I usually like to deal with but you may be different.  If you don't want to look like a complete idiot, you can actually repaint the section you were working on so that it matches the rest of the car!
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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2003, 09:38:56 AM »

Quote from: "Crix"
Why?Huh?Huh?  Do you not like listening to the radio or having your rear window clean???   Bloody hell, yes you are a REDNECK, can you say gaaaaguuuck???


The reason that the rear window squirter is normally shaved is because after time it will tend to leak and let water into the roof.  The antenna is basically the same reason but many people do not listen to the radio and would prefer the look of more smooth.  and anyways, with the antenna up it looks gay.
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