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Redline165
20+ Year Contributor
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- Mar 3, 2004
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Raeford,
North_Carolina
Still rolling along. I'm getting after all the small things that no one will see/notice but me. I should just leave them be but I know I will loose sleep over it.
I missed a little glue from the front windshield on this corner. I know it would be hidden by the new one but it was bugging me.
Almost done with this guy. Nothing too big here, just a few small pinhole sized things.
The biggest pain in the butt are the edges. There are only 2-3 that burned through but none the less its a paint. I have to mask the entire car, skuff the area of the metal back down too around a 220 grit, spray etching primer, then within the respray window I have to re-coat high build. Then the whole process starts over again when I pull all the masking off, take the car back outside and wet sand to 600. The hardest part is not loading them up with primer so heavy that it looks strange. I got some advice from another forum on how to go after these a little more delicately that I'm going to try this weekend.
I did add a few more lights in the booth just for good measure because we all know that you can never have too much light.
The lower rocker panels and the edges on the underside of the fender flare/lip are kinda a pain as well. Its just a tough angle to get at and see. The lower rocker panels were okay but had a few dings and chips from misplaced floor jacks and what not. I didn't go as far as to pull every single little dent seeing the side skirts will cover them, but i did smooth all the scratches and skuffs out. The lip on the rear quarter panel flare (best way I can think to describe it) is pretty simple with no damage, just got missed in all the initial spraying because of the angle. Hardest part here is the tight masking to keep over spray off the undercoating.
This right here is the last big thing I have left to do, or should I say re-do. This is where I removed the fuel filler door and welded it up. There has always been a high spot on the bottom left corner and I had it about where I was content (not really) and i just couldn't stand it any more and had to fix it. What im assuming happened was that when I welded the door up that I went slow enough to not have to worry with warping the thin metal fuel door, but I ended the weld at the bottom corner and the little bit of flex it had left ended there and bowed the quarter panel about 1/16th of an inch out. (just enough that you cant see if with your eyeball but your had will catch it) So after much contemplation I got the very precise tool of a hammer and a small 2x4 and gave it one pop and solved the problem. I cleaned the whole area up because of all the layers of failed attempts to fix it so that when I glaze over my new spot here it will be simple and clean. I'm still not sure why I didn't do this to start with.
Otherwise its getting there. Slowly. I spot a few small things every time I go in the garage so I need to just get to where I am happy and spray it, otherwise Ill spend 2 more years fixing stupid things. (like a scratch on the back side of the dash bar)
I missed a little glue from the front windshield on this corner. I know it would be hidden by the new one but it was bugging me.
Almost done with this guy. Nothing too big here, just a few small pinhole sized things.
The biggest pain in the butt are the edges. There are only 2-3 that burned through but none the less its a paint. I have to mask the entire car, skuff the area of the metal back down too around a 220 grit, spray etching primer, then within the respray window I have to re-coat high build. Then the whole process starts over again when I pull all the masking off, take the car back outside and wet sand to 600. The hardest part is not loading them up with primer so heavy that it looks strange. I got some advice from another forum on how to go after these a little more delicately that I'm going to try this weekend.
I did add a few more lights in the booth just for good measure because we all know that you can never have too much light.
The lower rocker panels and the edges on the underside of the fender flare/lip are kinda a pain as well. Its just a tough angle to get at and see. The lower rocker panels were okay but had a few dings and chips from misplaced floor jacks and what not. I didn't go as far as to pull every single little dent seeing the side skirts will cover them, but i did smooth all the scratches and skuffs out. The lip on the rear quarter panel flare (best way I can think to describe it) is pretty simple with no damage, just got missed in all the initial spraying because of the angle. Hardest part here is the tight masking to keep over spray off the undercoating.
This right here is the last big thing I have left to do, or should I say re-do. This is where I removed the fuel filler door and welded it up. There has always been a high spot on the bottom left corner and I had it about where I was content (not really) and i just couldn't stand it any more and had to fix it. What im assuming happened was that when I welded the door up that I went slow enough to not have to worry with warping the thin metal fuel door, but I ended the weld at the bottom corner and the little bit of flex it had left ended there and bowed the quarter panel about 1/16th of an inch out. (just enough that you cant see if with your eyeball but your had will catch it) So after much contemplation I got the very precise tool of a hammer and a small 2x4 and gave it one pop and solved the problem. I cleaned the whole area up because of all the layers of failed attempts to fix it so that when I glaze over my new spot here it will be simple and clean. I'm still not sure why I didn't do this to start with.
Otherwise its getting there. Slowly. I spot a few small things every time I go in the garage so I need to just get to where I am happy and spray it, otherwise Ill spend 2 more years fixing stupid things. (like a scratch on the back side of the dash bar)