08/08/2026
Just because its an old roll off trash truck doesn't mean it cant be bad ass!
After getting the back of the truck pressure washed, we went ahead and did a first stage blasting, just to see where we were at.
Next removed the old rotten bumper. It was so packed full of solidified dumpster mung I couldn't get the lights out without beating the bumper with a hammer. Doing that opened up some large holes in the bottom allowing the sludge and rust to exit, once the lights were removed. They all worked so we saved the customer a few hundred dollars on lights by cleaning and reusing them.
Reasonably clean, but still pretty gross I snaked the harness out through the grime.
I chose to do most of the removed with an angle grinder, because the smell of just the truck was pretty bad and I really didn't want to smell that s**t on fire š¤£.
Once I got most of it ripped off with the angle grinder and a whiz wheel I went in and gouge the rest off with the plasma.
All the bad metal removed I sand blasted again to get everything clean and prepped for paint and weld.
But a clean hitch plate still needs a bumper. So over to big red to cut some light holes out of 6x6/.25 box tube.
I made some paper templates for the angles and notches. I relieved the notches with big red while cutting the light holes, this made my bends super easy by hand. Welded it all out, and ground the radiuses of the tube back in.
Welded the bumpers onto the truck, sand blasted one more time to get the new bumpers ready for primer.
Washed the whole area down with denatured alcohol and sprayed it with a special 4 part epoxy primer. The customer is going to paint over it, but they wanted my primer on it.
Job done well is a job well done.
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