Rat repair.

[swamp rat]

Originally Posted by DD1

How far away is the glass place? It should be fine with the duct tape, but I would not drive at highway speeds like that. Driving without the windshield is probably about the same as driving a motorcycle. But I don't do that at high speeds without the visor down.

For a second I thought the white fan was your A/C system.

About 20 miles? I can do back roads.

[DD1]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

About 20 miles? I can do back roads.

You should be fine. Just take back roads and do 30-40 MPH. Don't do anything to draw attention to you. Worse case the glass falls out and breaks - not that big of a deal.

[swamp rat]

Well, I knew it would be a much cooler day today so I took the day off.

First up was to do a little touch up smoothing to the seam sealer, then spray with more primer sealer, didn’t take any pic’s.

Next up is a job I have been dreading, stripping the old paint off the inside of my hood, I went downtown yesterday and picked up an assortment of rust and paint removal disks, brushes and grit inpregnated fiber type rotary brushes and went to town on the thing, talk about one dirty job! I also was sure to keep moving around to minimize any heat build up. I tried about everything I bought, and used up what was working best about 1/2 way done, had to clean up a little and drive my old dirty truck up town to buy more stuff. Went through that and decided to call it a day, still not done yet but it’s close.

I learned a big lesson today, once you remove a rag from your rag supply box never ever put it back in that box. When I started working on the pinch weld I grabbed a bunch of rags and laid them alover the dash, carpet and steering wheel and column, unfortunately there was some type of chemical on the rag laying on my brand new column and it damaged the powder coat :/ the only thing I can do is leave it or sand the powder coat and paint it but I have no idea at this point if powder coat and spray paint are compatible..

[DD1]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Well, I knew it would be a much cooler day today so I took the day off.

First up was to do a little touch up smoothing to the seam sealer, then spray with more primer sealer, didn’t take any pic’s.

Next up is a job I have been dreading, stripping the old paint off the inside of my hood, I went downtown yesterday and picked up an assortment of rust and paint removal disks, brushes and grit inpregnated fiber type rotary brushes and went to town on the thing, talk about one dirty job! I also was sure to keep moving around to minimize any heat build up. I tried about everything I bought, and used up what was working best about 1/2 way done, had to clean up a little and drive my old dirty truck up town to buy more stuff. Went through that and decided to call it a day, still not done yet but it’s close.

Nice job on the hood. Why did you decide to remove the paint that way vs. sandblasting it?

[swamp rat]

Originally Posted by DD1

Nice job on the hood. Why did you decide to remove the paint that way vs. sandblasting it?

Because if it’s done incorrectly the hood will oil can and at this point I don’t know who to trust. The other reason is the place I did find they blast than powder coat, not sure how well K2 primer would adhear to primer.

[swamp rat]

Got the inside of the hood painted, so I can mount it now, but I need to clean up some old bolts first as I ran out of new stock.

Pulled the grill and gave it a quick bath, it’s gonna need some work before it goes back on.

Trying to decide if it’s worth the effort to fill the spaces between the windshield pinch welds with seam sealer, I’m referring to any place there is a gap to fill as I already filled and painted the normal overlapping areas.

[DD1]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Got the inside of the hood painted, so I can mount it now, but I need to clean up some old bolts first as I ran out of new stock.

Pulled the grill and gave it a quick bath, it’s gonna need some work before it goes back on.

Trying to decide if it’s worth the effort to fill the spaces between the windshield pinch welds with seam sealer, I’m referring to any place there is a gap to fill as I already filled and painted the normal overlapping areas.

The hood looks NICE!