PacificNWBuckeye

I love those towels for final detail spray wipe downs after a wash, just seem to work the best for me.

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Hey Ryan I would ask you to show me the money but I'm curious of your razor collection. Do you have a picture to share, a few years ago I got into double edge safety razors all newermodel because my face was tore up from the floor up and the doc told me to start use a double edge razor. Thanks for sharing.

 

 

Sorry, having issues with Photobucket...

I believe either work just fine, but from strictly a component make up point of view the $99 one theoretically will hold up longer and survive the accidental dropping that is bound to happen better than the less expensive one.

I bought a brass connection component Gilmour long before Adams got back in with their foam gun, the metal is holing up well after several years of weekly use across the 2-4 vehicles I've owned in that time.

Traveled to Edmonton Alberta Canada for work, this metric stuff is confusing man.

Detail Spray

Shampoo

APC

Wheel Cleaner

Rubber and Tire Cleaner

Little late on this one, but Falcaineer (Chris) had some great points and hit the few I would say plus some others.

I have the collector gene so I have several, currently I have around 850 Blu-ray/DVD Movies and TV shows, am ever growing Pop Vinyl Collection and 35ish Double Edge Safety Razors (primarily vintage Gillettes). I did have around 230 1/18th Diecast cars, but that was getting out of hand and they are gone now.

I guess the keeping clean vehicles goes without saying on this site.

With DVK no longer being an Adam's employee working out the logistics of doing the videos could prove problematic. Is there another already working at Adam's that could be christened "Shine Doc Jr"?

Sweet, nice work on one of my favorite vehicles.

Burt getting rubber shifting the auto after picking up Sally in the wedding dress is one of my favorite scenes in the movie.

Picked up one of the shock sockets off Amazon, took about 45mins to swap both front shocks, they look to have been the originals like the rears. One was leaking pretty bad, but I could compress either of them by hand with not too much force. Only made a short run so far, but it feels totally different.

I tried out the new glass cleaner yesterday, works great, really gave it a workout as the back window on my cap was filthy.

I'm wondering if it has some sealing properties as there was some rain later in the day and it was nearly like it had sealed the windows.

They were sealed last year so there shouldn't be any left at this point.

I think all of mine have snags, still dry fine, it will annoy you when it happens.

I used vice grips above the nut on the threaded stem and use a box wrench. A touch of penetrating oil on the nut will do wonders if there is any rust. Or vice grips on the rod itself may work

Thanks, need to get eyes on the ones in there and see the top of the stem, just had so much to put in I didn't go too deep at the time, figured someone here might have tips.

Just a FYI - they do sell sockets that will fit the top of the shock stem, and you use a box wrench to prevent the nut from turning. Just remember to turn the socket in the "tighten" position while the nut is held stationary to loosen it. Should be less than 10.00.

Thanks, the new Ranchos do have something to grab, but I will have to get back in the wheel well to see if the ones in the truck have something too. The rears were the originals as far as I could tell.

Just finished putting new shocks in the rear of my Dakota, in the front I did new hubs, new drilled and slotted disk brakes and new brake pads along with some new hardware on the calipers. The front shocks are proving to be a pain, the top nut is just spinning the upper piston of the shock and not breaking loose.

Have to figure out a new plan of attack.

I think I would go for cleaning products designed for the application first before eating up pads and product trying to get rid of it. Look into what Joel and Carla suggested.

They came out when the Pumpkin Spice Detail Spray was around.

Shane is right, very generally swirls come from touching of the paint by something abrasive. That can be improper washing (not saying that is what it was), someone rubbed along the vehicle while parked, something lite (a plastic bag) blew across the paint while driving at speed, no proof, but I feel like excessive dirt build up could swirls a soft paint in the rain as it rinses off when driving.

I use my sidekick to blow out the cracks and spots water collects. I follow that with detail spray (general all over misting, Adam method, maybe not quite that much product) and a great white, maybe a double soft after that. If it seems like there are streaks once I pull back out on the street I grab the orange towel and the detail spray, give one or two misting shots to a panel until the towel builds up some and then only one when it feels like it is dry to the panel.

Outside temp and the towels as mentioned above are two major contributers to Detail Spray streaking. I always pull into the sunny area (hard to get out here) for the final wipe down, also I find the longer nap orange Adam's towels work best for me on final wipe downs for best shine.

I think Patriot is wasted on a Daily Driver, it's more of a show wax with extra shine enhancers from what I recall. I have some I got in a Mystery Box and have not used it yet.

How about one of the Essentials Kits.

I have so much of the older products I could change the outer dimensions of all three of my vehicles and have some left over.

I too have had some bristle come out and a few curl, but not enough to make it unusable, you would hardly notice a difference from a new brush.

Could this come down to your storage method? Are you storing it wet? Bristles down? Other items piled on top down in a bucket?( last one is kinda my method)