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mandatory stare and compare of them crusty hand slicers and once powderized
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Next we want to see the spring finger pincher reconnected to hinged marvel hand mangler.. ....your parts are looking better than new, how is the shop vac holding up with the sand blasting sand?
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They look great! Well done!
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but seriously the vac sucktion issue has been taken care of |
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got the '71 GMC grille bracket powdernated as well
basically the rule is if she fit in the oven then she going black |
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and I know there's tens of viewers out there waiting to see more Electric Vehicle Conversion crap and I get it, so I've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work to get us there, boring stuff that I won't even share pics of, like cleaning, prepping, measuring, priming, and paiting my FIFTH spin stick
thank you pjmoreland for your continued help in my drive line collection quest, some day WE will own all of them riveting sister thread can be found here: Did the 1/2 ton short beds come with a two piece driveshaft? |
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this may be the last of the thing ma jigs to get media blasted and blackatized before them doors go back on the rig
word on the street is since them silver rods didn't rust in the last 50 years they might could be coated with something and The Greg ought to should just leave them be and not media blast them and risk removing said magic pixie dust [but can he restrain himself ?] |
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a super explanation of how you change gears in an electric conversion vehicle by Mr. Damien Maguire
E46 Touring EV CCS Road Trip |
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third half of the second gen Prius electric power assist steering combobulation into the 50 year ol' rig
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and this is all just the door stuff
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these door regulators have me perplexed, do I just paint them black and put them back, or do I drill out these plastic rolly pollies so I can powder coat them pieces?
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based on previous experiences I have had at my shop removing/blasting/paint or powder coating the regulators, DONT remove them, never seem the same are reinstallation.
as usual your work in clean and boarderline perfection, keep it up |
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put on a shirt, then let us know where to help fund the truck, shirts, hats, can coolers have always sold the best at my shop.
keep it up, electric truck not really my thing, but the craftmanship and attention to detail and thinking out side the box, keeps me coming back to check in |
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however, as my dear friend an attorney and relator used to say "no one is starving at our house" I just hope to entertain and share some know how with peeps or at least my mistakes and as far as classic cars I honestly believe shoving a real "motor" in them as in electric is a sure way to breathe some new life into them, check this link out: Sleek all-electric Mustang with Tesla-inspired interior to debut in Goodwood |
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I just thought this was time and project appropriate
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shocking, more parts being media blasted...
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reserved for a sexy powder coated steering column bracket pic
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ah yes, good times
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more media blastin', now with 100% more red background
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some day I'll run out of things to media blast and powder coat and will actually have to finish the EV Conversion part
Fun Fact: these took one can of brake cleaner each in order to shoot out and spray out all the media blasting grit out of them that I managed to load 'em up with, but hey it was either that or rust, and let me tell you once they was cleaned up I could spin them spurs with one finger and they would free spin afterwards |
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so then it was time to yank the new used blue manual steering column apart
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and here's what it looked like before being media blasted
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you know what they say:
"if it got rust in the past, its gonna git media blast" actually I don't think anybody done say that |
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man I really love how that raw metal steering column looks and am considering just clear coating it, it would give the murder truck some much needed contrast, let me know what a bad idea that is so I know I'm right, ha ha
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with the door remounting coming up next, this made me chuckle
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so with this EV conversion going super smoothly and fast, I decided to also do a slant nose hood conversion, yup, bought this beauty site unseen at night in the rain for only one crisp Benjamin
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now I'm sure some of you have heard of the Slant Nose, but this is the SS aka the Super Slant nose, you see it is slanted 2" more [ahem, on one side]
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nothin' me and Cross Eyed Konrad over at Ding Performance couldn't handle
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alright, so this is the general idea
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the BumpStop 3000 TM all weldered up and all bolted up and ready for action
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yes this setup comes with the Shimanator attachment if you order the full kit
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now before I show you the final result let me just share that The Greg went out and bought one of these fancy Vevor $400 let me say that again FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR dent pullers that absolutely positively suck, unless both me and Patrick are doing something completely wrong, I mean these welds just don't hold, fellers I tried this on my cab and now on my hood and we could not get these to stick at all
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so after trying to pull dents with a MIG welder we had to resort to the drill a hole and use a slide hammer to pull, hence the swiss cheese look, nothing we can't fill with a MIG and hours worth of grinding
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so I began wire wheelin' off the body filler off this hood as it looked pretty thick
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those were quarters by the way, and I think I went through 4 wire wheels per side ie half a hood
yes counting the labor and price of materials, consumables, not to mention the 90 mile drive one way to buy that thing, we could have bought 3 aftermarket hoods instead, I get it |
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