TA_C10: Stage 1

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Best pic I could find right after I bought the truck. Check out the front fender cap. It looked really nice here. Bondo holding that sucker on right there lol...

Primer hiding poor repairs = all to common..... Ughh.

[TA_C10]

Originally Posted by SCOTI

Primer hiding poor repairs = all to common..... Ughh.

Very true but it sure is hard to swallow when it happens to you. Of course I don't know why I say this however because it's been the theme of this truck since I bought it, don't know how i'm not used to it by now....

Bed, fenders, and doors still need to be blasted still so probably more to come

[TA_C10]

I thought I was done with the firewall. I really wasn't planning on mudding the whole thing but because of the new vintage air going in I patched up the big holes and used body filler to finish them off. Well now the drivers side has those huge dimples from the factory and they look ugly now that I see them in these photos... ARGGHHH, I am so done with this body filler crap....

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

I thought I was done with the firewall. I really wasn't planning on mudding the whole thing but because of the new vintage air going in I patched up the big holes and used body filler to finish them off. Well now the drivers side has those huge dimples from the factory and they look ugly now that I see them in these photos... ARGGHHH, I am so done with this body filler crap....

Looking good from where I'm sitting! Keep it up!

[TA_C10]

Update - Vintage Air Vents

Cut the holes for vents today. Vintage air templates worked just fine. I read a tip not to use a hole saw so I used my small body saw instead. Worked fine. I think I could have used a hole saw without issue but this worked too.


Center vent I don't like. it sticks out from the dash. I knocked/bent the top metal out best I could without distorting it but still not enough. I guess I will have to add some body filler at the top to make it fit right. Not sure what happened here but it sucks.











Passenger side:





















Driver Side:

[TA_C10]

Firewall update - smoothed

Couldn't stand it, had to do the other side of firewall. Factory had these huge divots from the spot welds so I just simply filled in all those divots. It looks much better than it did. Not by any means perfect...









I used self leveling seam sealer(what i had left over from the roof drip rail) and I was able to make it all the way from left to right, but it wasn't quite full enough so I let 4 hours pass to let it cure completely then used the solids seam sealer and topped it all off with that. Hopefully that is ok to do, not sure why it would be a problem.






I also used the solids seam sealer in the drip rails and filled in some of the little dips/divots. I also had a couple inches right above the drivers door that never really cured on top, it stayed sticky, so I topped that off and smoothed it out. It has all cured nicely now and feels great, and water won't sit in those little divots, this satisfies me.






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