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man this job took awile to get all the weather striping out, and remove some of the rivets, i hand sanded eveything then used etching primer ,then primer sealer and mixed up some gloss black and shot two coats on it ,now it will sit for awile until i get the weather strip and glass thanks steve

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Very nice work, nice attention to detail.
It will all be very well worth the patience!
A very good start at an awesome truck!

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Starting on the grill,this would be the before shots. trying to find a way to make this baby shine

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thanks Modges 66

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sprayed the grill down with oven cleaner it striped the anodizing, then done three different grits of sanding and hand buffing with Mothers .so far this is what it looks like

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DDrroooolll....wow, that turned out awesome..I love it
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Wow looks brand new! May I ask how does the process go( sand first with three grits then polish?) and what grit paper do you use??or tips on doing it....

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Started with washing with soap and water then sprayed oven cleaner with sodium hydroxide in it let sit for 15 min washed off then done it one more time.started wet sanding with 320 /600/1000/2000 then hand polished with mothers until it shined and polished some more .this took me about 14 hours in all
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Right on! thank you for explaining that ive never done something like that and have a bumper id like to try it on...Once again it looks amazing !

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Thanks Timmy I've never tryed it on a bummer my grill is aluminum still have to do all the side trim and the rings around the headlights Thanks Steve
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great looking project, subscribed, need to go back and read through the entire build

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Super Job. Subscribed
And your close too.

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What do you plan to do to preserve the shine. The aluminum will dull and corrode won't it?

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Haven't found any info on keeping the shine on it besides a little wax every now and then
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havent wax it yet or found anything to keep it from dulling out on me got it stored up until i get paint on the truck

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been doing some rust repair on door bottoms

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been doing some floor repair

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cab corner went in pretty smooth

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