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Old 08-04-2021, 11:05 PM   #63
Thundarr
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Re: Someone save this truck

Awesome. Thank you.
The interior original color is definitely blue, you can see it is factory sprayed all up under the dash. I was just worried that the bed was not original. That yellow layer confused me.

I'm encouraged, because I've recruited the help of my facility manager, Chris, to stay after work a few days a week to help me.

Bed comes off tomorrow. We'll start to disassemble the rear section behind the cab. Clean and repaint that half of the frame with Duplicolor Frame Paint.
Got an orbital sander today with multi-packs of 120 and 220 sanding discs, so we'll start taking the body down to bare metal and uncover the areas of bondo.

Hope to save some money on the body and paint by doing the paint removal first. For the deep corners where I can't reach with a sander, what medium would you recommend for grit blasting? I've got a setup form Northern Tool that worked pretty good with walnut shells but that was for easier paint to strip. I just don't want to mess up the garage with that Black Diamond stuff.
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