I Bought A $99 Soda Blaster.. // Ford Ranger Frame-Off Restoration 

I used to work at a can recycling plant. It was sodapressing.

I love how when you pulled the tail light you said "oh the connector is brittle, I will have to replace that". we all know this means that you are going to rebuild the entire wiring harness for your gram's Truck. New connectors, new WIRES, new cable looms, yeah, we know how you are Sarah, and that is why we watch you!

I love when Sarah says I'm just going to freshen this up. That means all new stuff.

I’ve really come to loving your sense of humor. Your content is always entertaining and enjoyable.

Seeing this danger Ranger get some love really makes my day. Might I suggest for anyone with long hair to tie it back if they're ever working with powered rotating equipment. Getting your hair snagged in an impactor will ruin your day.

In the next episode; Sarah soda blasts everything, but has very fresh hair.

Talented, funny, and easy on the eyes. What more do ya need! Great channel.

Your ability to improvise is amazing. You have many experiences to draw on. Very impressive. Also, you're quite the soda blaster. Thanks for another entertaining video.

Sarah having a blast.

Run a cargo strap around the front frame where the legs of the lift contact it. You could also put axle stands under the rear axle to prevent a bad event from occurring.

I appreciate the trend toward more adventurous musical choices! 🎼🎹🎶

You are a bloody mechanical genius. I think you can look at an assembly and see in your mind a "cutaway" view of its parts. That's a real gift and one of many reasons I enjoy your videos so much. That and your absolutely off the wall sense of humor. Finally, you are very nice to look at!

Thank you for sharing your expertise

The bed goes on last! Trust me, retired Toyota MDT here, I'm quite familiar with frame swaps. The bed goes on last.

Hey there “watch pengi” keeping an eye on the shoppe! Glad Sarah’s decided to keep ‘em in her videos!

You’re so sweet calling out EvoMadi & her social stuff BUT no IG stuff. Great job as always Sarah 💕🐸👍🏼

Happy Monday Sarah!!! So that's what you were up to Saturday evening. Saw the door open and vehicle parked with lights on, up against the shop, while passing on the main road. Would've stopped to BS, but don't want to interrupt your work. HF soda blaster works surprisingly well. Stay excellent!!!😎

Love the ladies' great automotive content on youtube, Faye Hadley is another fav of mine. Will check out Madi.

2022, the year Sarah and Madi collab?! 😏 Love you! Thank you for being you!❤️

One of my favorite restaurants serves “butter snails” in a round plate with small concave indentations full of butter and snails with a little baked bread crown on top! Yum! Impressed with your shout out to a fellow car girl RU-vidr… and especially her message we all need to remember. Thank you! 👍👍👍

I love your channel. I really appreciate you doing your Gram's truck. GREAT tribute!

Loved the mental health focus in this video. Always important, especially this year.

love how the colours of the licenceplate holder fits the colours of your grandma's truck !!

best looking "rusty" Ford ranger I've ever seen !

Thank you, thank you, thank you for lowering the volume on the impact! When you put the bed on the donor frame, strap the frame to the lift before lifting it up so it doesn't fall off.

There is just something about a pretty young lady working on cars and trucks, love it.

I’m loving this truck, GRAM would be so proud. 👍👍❤️❤️

As to "tooth" for paint attearance, an abrasive blasted surface, IMHO it is better than any other method of surface prep. You should also try some of the other "less abrasive" (not sand) media, "Wallnut shells" are one that come to mind, I dont know what is avalable where you live.

The rad support bushing has threads in the top washer/sleeve. Hold the top with a pipe wrench and zip the bolt out with an impact.

I am really impressed with the soda blaster. For $99 it did a great job.

Soda really works great on aluminum. It cleans the oxidation off without leaving abrasive marks.

The blaster was brilliant. I love EvoMadi's message, glad you shared the info.

I think anyone will agree that media blasting is one of the messiest, dirtiest jobs about restoration but the results are so effective and satisfying when compared to anything else. Just for reference I have to do the same wiggle to my 100lb sandblaster to get the last 25% of the sand to flow to the pickup. I think I'll get one of those soda blasters now that I see how well it works for stuff that needs less aggressive blasting . Something you might look into for cleaning smaller aluminum parts is a small blast cabinet to use with glass beads, it will make cast aluminum look brand new with a nice satin smooth finish. Love watching you go through your processes of figuring stuff out and discovering new methods to the madness!

Great video, Sarah. I've never used a soda blaster (I prefer glass bead), but it seems to work perfectly for the job at hand. You're going to have a brand new (old) Ranger when you're done. Keep up the great work.

Thank you for reviewing the soda blaster. I wondered how effective they can be for small jobs I have, definitely will get one. You're doing great on the truck.

Looks like the little soda blaster works quite well. You know all the tricks when it comes to detailing and making a vehicle like new again. You don't miss a thing. Great job as always.

Nothing like garage science experiments with Sara!🤘

Please try a sand blaster with glass beads. Not nearly as aggressive as sand but much faster and more aggressive than soda. It will actually remove the rust even in the pitted areas. It's a great tool for removing splotchy and discolored areas and creating an even appearance on many different metals as well. Plus you can use it to actually spray sand if you need that level of abrasiveness. Love watching your channel and your awesome sense of humor.

Sarah you can put the truck bed on your frame if you support the rear axle with jack stands to help distribute the added weight from the lift to the floor.

The whole package, a drop-dead gorgeous automotive enthusiast with extensive knowledge. WOW.

Soda blaster for $100. Damn, there's another tool I need! Cannot wait to see this li'l pup done up!✌❤🙂

Another awesome video Sarah!

Love all ways on the vids , your one of the few who can actually get me to laugh out loud , nothing brightens my day better than to see a fresh vid of yours,,, rebuilding one of my bikes this winter sooo lots of alaminium parts and covers to clean up, and someone had previously use some wrinkle paint on parts of it might try the soda plaster myself,, an im affraid some of your cleaning habbits have rubbed off, i find some of my latest projects are coming out way better lookin than usual,, thanks🕶

I love that Ford Ranger and the ground up restoration you are doing to it is just amazing and the emotional connection you have to it makes its extra special.

The beauty of soda blasting is that it dissolves with warm water. Easy.

Lol, I just started following you on Instagram because of this ranger, then looked for a review on the portable soda blaster, and you were one of the first videos to pop up with the ranger included👌

Soda blasting is great. I had a mobile media blasting company come and soda blast my last project car so that I wouldn't have to do all the sanding by hand. It was awesome, they did the whole car in about an hour and it saved me so much time by not having to hand sand the intricate surfaces like the door jambs, and the under the hood areas like the firewall. It cost me about $500 but was so worth it in the time savings by not having to sand all of those areas. It doesn't deteriorate the metal like sand blasting does, and the cleanup is really easy.

I know I'm several years late, but I use wheel and tire cleaner to remove oil and road grime with a stiff brissle brush. Decades of crud and grime will melt off with this stuff. Rinse with water and dry with air gun. Hope this helps in future! 👍

Hi Sarah, please look into fluid film for under coating. I live in Maine and I used it on my new used xterra, and it's great!! Take care. Looks great!

Never heard any one prounce aluinum as you do, love your humor.

I've never heard of Soda Blasting, thank you Sarah for the education!

I had one like this bought new in 93'. Mine was bright calypso green too. Too cool to see this.

I DIG that soda blaster. I WANT TO get one. Thanks for showing me.

Great video, and seeing the mistakes and figuring out what you did wrong is a great service to anyone doing their own auto work. Also props on the t-shirt very sweet!

I love that you say "aluminium" properly! Brilliant!

Story of life, spend 3 hours of learning and failure on the 1st attempt, 5min for every subsequent item. Amazing! This is so cool

Puns and innuendos are on point today ! thanks

Sarah is so funny. Should have a TV show.

Very entertaining with your humor and editing.

You’re simply amazing

Love that you explained the difference in driving environments ❤

Sarah flexin’ her blaster freckles 👌🏻

Nice job on the Ford ranger it definitely deserves the love you’re giving it. 👍🏻

Another great example of your work 📎🧷🧮

The very fact the someone is willing to frame off restore a family vehicle is worth a 👍

"I am much better at screwing than talking" surprised you didn't say anything about that XD

Sarah, if you had your own shop I’m sure you would have many many customers for you to fix their rides. You are thorough, clean, and you don’t cut corners.

Sarah, you are truly a master of mechanic ingenious and interesting and silly jokes! Love all you do. ❤️🙏☘️

Love your channel for a while now. Keep up the great work Sarah 👍🏻❤️

That rear suspension and drive train you showed from your previous video look practically factory. That is AWESOME work.

16 minutes and 32 seconds of innuendos and saying what pops up in your head.. i love it!

Just found the channel. I'm glad you're supporting more female automotive content! I love it. Thanks again.

How can someone not fall in love with this motor head 😍 ... Well done video. 👏🏼

I love being able to see this from start to finish🤗

I am so glad to see you spending all of this time on your grandmother's pickup. Big respect to you for honoring her memory in this manner. Plus, I like those old Rangers. They were still fairly small back then. I remember the first foreign Ranger I ever saw was in the very late 70s, I think it was made in Taiwan. It was smaller than the Toyota small pickups. I had a 1980 Chev Luv (Izuzu) in 1985. That thing run forever, it was easy to fix. I wish Toyota would make small pickups again. Tacomas are NOT small. It freaked me out that the parts truck you got from Farmington was the same color!!

I just wanted to see this $100 soda blaster. I ended up being highly entertained. Now would you look at that freaking shop. OMG

Sarah…. love your quirky sense of humor. You are fun to watch. Love to have a couple of the cars your recently completed. The Quatro and the TT. I had a 02 TT roaster, but always wanted a coupe. The one you gave away was a great snag for someone as you have already gone all the way through it. As I don’t have the knowledge, skills, tools or shop that you do, acquiring an older TT coupe is always going to be a roll of the dice. Cheers….

I love her shop, tools ,equipment, cars,& her.

Great progress. Now I want a soda blaster too, my hair needs the TLC of a soda blaster.

A day without Sarah is like a day without sunshine.

You’re one of my fav people in the world !

I took our '98 Ranger XLT bed off a few weeks back. It's probably 200 lbs max. My 16 year old son and I can lift it ourselves (but not really maneuver it well). 3 of us can easily remove it. I'm not sure if yours is a long bed, that one might be heavier. BTW, it's the easiest way to change fuel pumps (taking the bed off). Way easier than draining the fuel and dropping the tank, so you might want to replace the fuel pump before putting the bed on (or you can replace it the same way later when it fails). Kudos for the content Sarah, always a fan!

Very much enjoying this restoration/frame-swap!

It‘s always a pleasure to see her Videos.

I wish I could restore my ranger. Sadly it isn't worth it at all and I don't have the money... im a high-school kid lol. I hope to keep driving it for at least 4 years. But where I live there's a lot of idiots on the road. Nice ranger resto you got going on ma'am

Really fantastic playlist/series!

Hi Sarah Such a joy to watch your channel.very fresh an enjoyable content also a bit cheeky.Keep it up,looking forward to the next installment.

Ginger ale for everybody!

I must admit that I follow several female automotive content creators and will add EvoMadi . Don't be jealous, you are my favorite! Are we going to take the Audi to the track someday? Love riding with you.

Excellent work as always Sarah; always love your sense of humour :D I'm sure you're going to anyway, but please show the basic maintenance tasks on the engine? I would find that very helpful :)

Thanks for showing us the cool soda blaster! That may be a new tool for me in the very near future!👍

For some reason content involving bushing removal snafus always make me smile, because let’s be honest, it happens every-single-time!!

Sarah, if you use a flour sifter as you fill the device with soda media you will get better pickup of the media.

I love following your Ranger project! I own two of them.

Love the video, great to see you promoting fellow female makers. You're pretty funny too!

That soundtrack was very interesting! Well done Sarah.

Nice one wee Sarah, never dumb. Just keep making great videos.

Looking great!!

Thank you Sarah!

Dang....a actual car girl.....terrific......and a great sense of humor......geezelouise, if I was only 50 years younger.....