NW WA Meet / BS Thread

ouch!

 

Anyone know a good place for powder coating in the Seattle area?

 

@JimSnell has a place he's going to go with when I finish his sliders

 

@Joewaka

Rainier powdercoating, a few of us are looking at doing a group thing in a few weeks. I haven't actually used them before, just have a buddy who got his sliders done there. I spotted him over a rock the other day and got zero scratches. We were rough on the sliders too. Looks like a good shop.

 

Sounds good. Just ordered some sliders. Should have them by then. Let me know. Thanks!

 

Will do.

 

Thermotech in Monroe did my rack and @GSPRunner's sliders. Nate @ NR Fab uses them for all of his projects and raves about them.

 

Carl Landdeck of Carl's powder coating in North Bend. 425-864-7950 I've known him for years. He's an old local wheeling buddy. He can do most everything as long as it fits in his oven/bake room whatever it's called. He did a gold powder coated stripper pole that was 20' long/tall for my boss when he has party's and the ladies like to let their wildside out. All in good fun. He may not recognize my name off hand, it's been a few years since I've kept in touch with him. Tell him Bob (that's me) or my other buddy Scott sent you.

There's also "powder vision" in Preston just off I90 in the industrial warehouse area. I have no experience with them nor have I heard of POS/NEG reviews.

 

Yeah, just North of Everett Mall Way

 

Truck Found and Recovered. Thanks everyone for you support. It was located by the King County Sheriff's Department only about 5 miles from my house in a parking lot of an apartment building. There was no damage to the ignition. It is in my buddies garage now as I am out of the country until next week. Initially I thought the thief must have had a master key or something, but as they only took personal items from inside the cab and none of the accessories (not even the Hi-Lift, shovel and axe from the bed), now I am thinking they were just a car prowler and maybe I left a key in the truck or something??? I feel like an idiot if this was the case... I've been reading different threads on re-programing the keys and adjusting the lock tumblers. I welcome any suggestions.

 

Think his name is Wayne maybe. I've taken a ton of stuff to him over the last 18ish years. Great guy.

 

I re-did the lock tumblers on my truck. It's pretty easy and a good piece of mind

 

That's amazing. Too bad they don't all end this way.

 

That's serious good news.

 

Have your buddy buy you a lottery ticket.

That's almost unbelievably lucky, haha.

 

And only 5 miles away from his house

 

Just went to Toyota of Kirkland to get some power steering fluid. I asked for a price on a new ps pump. $430. I asked for the part number. They said that they don't give out part numbers. It's their shop policy. Sad to say I ended up buying the power steering fluid at AutoZone 5 min later and I'm never, ever, ever going to buy a single thing from Toyota of Kirkland ever again.

Update: just googled the part number $278 online.... bastards...

 

I would've looked up the part number on the spot, asked them to look that up for the price, smiled and left.

 

Getting a new one before moab?

 

Possibly. Mine is starting to whine as the revs go up. At the least I'll just take a AutoZone cheapie with me along with other parts for the trip. 2 more weeks to go!