6/30 Update
 

Man it is HOT and working in the garage is like an oven .... when I grow up I will have A/C and heat in my garage :lol:
Any way .... not much happening, got back from Utah yesterday and got in the garage today to prep my doors for some epoxy, one done and one left. Man I am glad it's not a four door :willy:

My boys are coming out here in a few weeks and I need to clean out their rooms ... I have been storing parts in their rooms :thumbsup: where else can I keep parts clean and organized, right? So I need to get some epoxy on the doors and hang them, bolt the trunk lid on, put the door skin, dash and filler panel in my room I guess :lol:

I still need to do the jambs ... that lacquer paint just gums up when you try sanding it off, so paint remover is required!

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Little bit of time here!
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Ready for epoxy
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Paint remover is required on the jambs:(

Getting there a little at a time ....
Thanks

I know its in the thread somewhere but what are you using to clean everything up.Great job.

I am using my trusted DeWalt drill and a fiber disc (from Harbor Freight) and assorted wire wheels, I use my air grinder sometimes with coarse roloc discs. Just takes time to see it through .... so I get started on a piece and keep going til it's done!
Thanks for looking

Chief you do awesome work! Very impressive.

Hey if you think it's hot up there in Colorado, come on down to Las Vegas for a few. :yes:

:captain:

True that...

Yeah .... no thanks, but for Colorado weather to be in the 100's already that is way too early.

Thanks for the compliments.

Chief they're looking great..

Thank's,I need to clean the bottom of my 66 Chevelle like this so I can rhino line it.:thumbsup:

Thanks for the words ... they mean a lot coming from you.

I had a moment last nite, I said the paint on the doors was being a bugger to get off cuz it was lacquer ... DUHHHHH, I used some lacquer thinner and got the paint broken down enough to disc off. One door done and one more to go .... that's my goal today.

Thanks for looking .... more to come:thumbsup:

Good luck with the pan ... keep going and then you are done :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Sunday 7/1
 

More work on the door passenger door is almost done.

The door had more lacquer paint than the drivers cuz the repair they did ... and the paint is a bugger to get off, heats up way too quick with a disc :( :(

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/592/120701938.jpg
Almost ready for epoxy primer
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Still need to get this end clean.

Ran outa steam tonight .... I'll finish tomorrow and get some epoxy on the doors this week, that's the plan anyway :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Your doing a nice job on them..

nice job as always!

nice attention to detail, your doing a great job...

Thanks for the kudos, I am getting the pass door ready for epoxy and should have some pixs soon ... so blasted HOT here I have to wait til it cools off to spray. :(

Michael

7/4 Uodate
 

OK this is not a paid advertisement for this eco friendly paint remover ... but this stuff works great! Couple hours after applying I just wiped off the gunk with a shop towel and then hit the paint with a wire brush and whola - the paint left just lifted off, so I hit it with the fiber disc and the rest just came off :woot:

So I did the door jambs and the sills after it worked on the door .... needless to say I didn't get any epoxy primer sprayed!!! But in all it was a good day fer sure :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/9596/120704952.jpg
And it has a citrus smell!
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Door jambs are looking GOOD!
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Had to do both sides!!!
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Got the door done too.

That was easy compared to the aircraft paint remover and it smells good :unibrow:

That's all for today ... oh I got it at WallyWorld!

So clean, I'd eat dinner off of that!!!

nice,

Definitely did the job!

Yeah that stuff worked great, I kinda got off track when I found out it worked so well I just keep going and got the jambs and the sills down to metal ... w/o much trouble.

If I had her on a rotisserie I would have down the whole underside :hail: :hail:

Steady the course ... epoxy this weekend fer sure!

WOW that stuff works fantastic!! Looks great

I'm going to work on my Nova doors next week, I'll be picking some of that up!!!!

and some strippers!! hehehe, wheels!!

Nice Job! Going to Home Depot Today :thumbsup:

My man you are putting in the work...looking real good keep it up!!!

Thanks ... it's good stuff fer sure:thumbsup:

Thanks ... I got this jug at Walmart, I don't know if HD carries the same stuff.

Thanks guys... I only want to do this once and I am going to do what I can to do it right, I have seen paint lift cuz the prep was not done correctly and it's enough to make you cry.

7/7 Update
 

Didn't get epoxy sprayed too much rain coming down today, go figure ... it's too hot and now it's too wet :unibrow: Continued with the citrus stripper and got the rest of the sill done and the upper gutter to the doors almost done.
Oh and the dash is ready for epoxy ... hopefully I can get some primer sprayed tomorrow before it starts to rain.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8983/120707963.jpg
Working on the upper sill.
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Door sills all done.
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Just a cool pix :thumbsup:
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Stripping the dash.

Something everyday .... hopefully epoxy tomorrow should be in the 70's, we'll see :thumbsup:

Thanks for looking

How about posting up a few pictures of the process with that Citrus stripper? Seems to be working REALLY well.

Using the citrus stuff!
 

It's funny that you asked ... cuz I just so happen to have pixs of the dash strip. So this is how I did the dash

I first put a good coat of the citrus stuff on (don't use your hand w/ nitrile gloves cuz you don't have a paint brush) and wait bout two hours, wipe the goo off w/ a shop towel and then use the wire brush and cross hatch the area and the paint comes off. I used a fiber disc on the DeWalt to finish the hard areas and it leaves scratches for the epoxy to adhere to.
Here's a couple pixs of the dash undergoing the strip

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Put a good layer on w/ a paint brush
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Wipe off and then wire brush.
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I used a fiber disc to scratch the metal clean

That's how I did it .... if it is too thin and starts to dry it doesn't work as well ... just put another layer on that spot and she's good.

Hope that helps all :thumbsup:

Finally got epoxy
 

sprayed on all the parts, now just the body is left:thumbsup:

So at 1000 it's 70 out and the humidity is 67%, thought I was back in CT for awhile, I'm degreasing the parts and I'm sweating like a pig so I wore a t shirt around my head while I was spraying.

I had to get going cuz the humidity was only going up so I put the car in the driveway and hung the fenders and extensions, the dash and the doors and mixed up some epoxy and got going.

Even with the humidity the epoxy laid down nice, only one run :thumbsup:

Anyway here is the pixs of the garage full of parts.

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Hung all the parts and wiped em down.
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Doors ready to go.
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Fenders now have epoxy inside.
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Fenders and extensions done
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Doors look good :thumbsup:
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Ditto
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Dash is done too!

So ... I let them dry and put them back in the boy's bedroom :thumbsup: I need to start attaching parts this week cus the boys are flying out in two weeks and I'm sure they will want them outa thier rooms :willy: :willy:

Parts in epoxy is a good sight, now I just have to do the body, still have some areas that need paint removal.

Anyway that's what I did today ...... thanks!

Once again nice work,

careful, the site owner is in to photography too, he might not like your artsy photos!!! just kidding,

the dark one looks cool!!!

Thanks for the process and progress pictures. You're making it look easy. :yes:

Found more RUST!
 

Well now we don't want to piss in anyone's wheaties now do we? Thanks!

You are welcome! I wish it was easy, just gotta keep plugging away :thumbsup: Thanks!


Here is what I did last nite ... finished the A pillars and the upper weatherstrip channel and found a little triangle to show the factory people where to put the studs for the molding, thought that was cool :thumbsup:

And with the rain gutters cleaned to metal I can see RUST between the roof and the gutter :mad: . I know what that means .... replace the roof after POR15 all the reinforcements .... GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Take a look.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8348/1207101027.jpg
Stripped the channel to metal, you can see the rust inside the quarter!

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Look at the triangles for the studs!

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Driver's rain gutter RUST, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Well almost ready for some epoxy on the body, maybe this weekend I can get the jambs and the sills epoxied and get the door frames hung, we'll see how the week is going first and plan from there.

Thanks

Time for the handheld sand blaster,and clean that up,

WoW!!! Thats a lot of work!!

Im just thinking...did you ever tought about an acid bath or something? Followed by electrodeposit primer or the like? I saw that done a few times and to take care of all the rust like you seem to be wanting to do it might have been the ticket!! Not sure it would have come that expensive, and it would have covered every spec of rust!! I consider myself a little asking on quality work but when it comes to getting to EVERY little spot...Man, it just never can be done. You really seem to want to get every inch done so i wonder if that system crossed your mind or not.

Great job so far! Keep it up! You are one patient dude!

Lead.

Sand blasting won't get underneath where the rust started :mad: , so the roof has got to come off .... to do it right :hail:


Thanks ... have your read Stielow's book? The neutralizer after the acid dip didn't get into the same spots as the acid and the doors rusted out requiring redo on the doors.

I may be getting all the rust off the car the hard way, but .... I didn't introduce any chemicals, sand or any media that didn't come from the factory and I know it's done right.

Thanks for asking thou ...

when i was pulling my quarters out I found rust in the drip rails the same as yours. it was rusted inside the seam. the spot welds didn't exist anymore. I ended up grabbing my plasma and cutting the roof off.... only to find the drip rail panel itself was rusted nearly the entire lenght. oh well... what's one more panel at this point.

Sprayed exopy
 

primer on the door jambs, sills and the rocker panels :woot: Had to get up at o dark thirty, actually around 0630 and get the car wiped off and get going before the garage got too hot.

Came out alright ... had a couple runs no biggy thou, now I can hang the doors and get the other parts set in place and outa my boys bedroom.

I didn't mask off anything off .... a grey scotch brite will take care of the over spray (the floor will get epoxy and then Lizard skin anyway). There will be more high fill primer coming later so no biggy.

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Door jamb done.
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Check.
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Time to hang the doors :thumbsup:
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Jambs came out nice!
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Got the inner and outer rocker to the pinch weld :thumbsup:

So a good day so far, everything is drying and I'm outa epoxy, I knew I didn't have enough for the quarters .... nice timing. Time for some inside stuff during the heat of the day.

Thanks for looking ...

That is why you gotta take the panel off and see what's under the rust .... I am getting everything else done first and then I'll tackle the roof .... it's holding the car together now and I don't wanna cut too much off the car at once.

Thanks for sharing ...

7/21 Update
 

It's a good day when parts come in, been gone all week and my AMD side cowls are here ... so now I can finish the cowl and the firewall!

Man do they fit 110% better than those other (China made) ones, so I had to fit them and see what the car looks like with side cowls ( I forgot) :lol: I am glad the AMD parts fit, should have ordered them from the beginning ... I now know there is an AMD dealer here in town that will get all my business fer sure.

The driver's side cowl doesn't quite have the same curvature as the upper cowl piece, but that is not a deal breaker just means I have to work with it .... BFH :unibrow:

I was working with the stripping gel today on my inner fender wells and let's just say when it's 100 out there is NO SUCH THING AS GEL :lol: It turned to liquid so I let it dry and scrapped it with the wire brush and most of the paint came off, I'll work on them early before it gets too hot again !!!!!!

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Gel turned to liquid with the heat :rolleyes:

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Driver's side cowl fitment ... it's better than the other ones. :thumbsup:

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Passenger side fit was almost perfect :woot:

I'll get going before the sun heats up the garage and I have to come inside and take a nap :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Thanks for looking ....

Its looking good!

Sunday 7/22
 

Got some time in the garage before it got really hot. Since I have the side cowls now I patched the OEM blower hole and worked on the inner fenders.

Found some rust between the panel on the inners .... guess I'll have to do surgery and fix that before I epoxy.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/827/1207221119.jpg
Patching the blower hole

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Quick test fit.

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GRRRRRRRRR rust between the metal.

http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/7882/1207221125.jpg
I'll have to fix this pretty soon!

I really would like to get ANVIL inner fenders but ... that's alot of coin, so I'll fix what I have and keep plugging away.

Maybe I'll get back out in the garage after it cools off ... now it's NAP TIME :cheers: