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Straighten Radiator Support

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TOYOTA TACOMA V/S DEER..MY WIFE IS OK...NOW LETS FIX THE TRUCK TOGETHER!!

What happens here

The presenter demonstrates the slide hammer's action by hooking one of its attachments onto the bent radiator support. He then repeatedly slides the hammer weight against the stop, generating force to pull the metal outwards. He notes that this method is significantly easier than his previous attempts with a hammer and crowbar. He successfully pulls the support out as much as possible, acknowledging that achieving perfect factory alignment without replacing the entire metal piece is difficult. He highlights the thin and pliable nature of modern vehicle metal compared to older vehicles.

Goal: The presenter uses the slide hammer with its attachments to carefully pull out and straighten the bent radiator support, correcting the alignment for new components.

Tools and materials

  • Slide hammer

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I'll show you what we're gonna do with it so the idea what the slide hammer is that it hammers back and pulls dents out now I was having to do this with a hammer and a crowbar and that was no fun again I'll post a link to this thing down in Amazon it was very affordable I can't remember the exact price but I'll post a link to it you guys are going to want this tool after you see it in action I can't wait to play with it my airbag sensors are here and here and this right here is my transmission cooler and at first we thought the transmission cooler was was bent or busted but doesn't look like it busted it did bust the horn right here but that's just cosmetic well lay this guy in here being careful to not damage here and I'll try the slide hammer that is so much easier than what I was doing before I'm just gonna hammer away at it here and we'll get it straightened out and then we'll get the rest of it put together let's have some fun with it you look right here you can see how I miss shaped it a little bit well straighten all that up before we get done and we'll put a little coat of paint on that so it doesn't rust slide hammer must have tool for your man toolbox guys I think we're gonna use a bigger attachment better this one I'm gonna move up to this one you see the difference alright so we've taken our slide hammer and we pulled out the dent as far as we can get it now we're just gonna straighten up this little mess right here that we made when we were pulling the dent out basically you know things aren't made out of really heavy-duty metal anymore I were to hit a deer in the old farmtruck the hundred dollar farmtruck I wouldn't even have this problem but I would never ever be able to bend that metal out metal on these new vehicles it's just so thin and pliable it's just not the quality steel that you used to get back in the 70s 60s 50s 40s especially look at cars from the 40s and even some cars from the 50s those things are sitting out in the rain rusting away they're still there they're still holding up today steel isn't designed to last quite as long but it's also designed to collapse so the front end of the vehicle is designed to collapse in case of an accident to absorb that impact so that's what it did it absorbed the deer know a lot of body work is just beating stuff back out to where it used to be it's just reshaping metal a lot of these shows you watch on TV it's just reshaping metal now if we had a bottomless pit of money we cut this radiator…

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