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Re: Project: Tow-Rat (Lil' Blue)
I imagine it is. I had my Youtube Channel logo t shirts printed before wheeling in AOAA and I ruined one the first time I wore it on Friday when I got transmission fluid on it while changing a broken drive shaft and I ruined a second one on Saturday while changing another broken drive shaft.
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HAHAHA yes very entertaining story for sure!! Looks like the frame turned out great love the color, what is it? The paint should come off your arm pit in a few weeks lol.
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Looks great. Good story too, lol. What's worse, orangutan armpit or that burning sensation if you try to get it off with gun wash?
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i tell ya what, had no issues washing up with gun wash yesterday ... but i had a major headache when i woke up. really good fume hang-over
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That looks very nice! What kind of paint is it? I can relate to the dam lid popping off and making a chit show. I dislike painting roll cages or hard to get areas because of that same thing. Maybe the water based paint is better because of this?
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ok, big push to get the 55 back into one garage bay only! i need the second bay something bad now. picked up a new distraction this weekend ... my 13yo truck with 200,000 miles is getting to be end of life, so i bought a 28yo truck with 335,000 miles. makes sense right?
flew to the gulf coast of Mississippi Thursday night, Friday paid the dude and drove 500mi to Nashville. Saturday toured Nashville, and saw Billy Ray sing Achy Breaky live! Sunday we hit up the Corvette museum on the 575mi drive back to PA. she's good to go, but has a long list of tweaks n tunes i want/need to do. plus i just want it to live inside! ![]() ![]() |
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Very sweet new ride.
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That is a beautiful first gen!
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ok, so the new truck has been kind of sucking up some time, but she should be ready to go for a while now.
i do have a 55 update though! sprayed the LizardSkin heat insulation on the bottom of the cab yesterday, and turns out i did NOT buy enough material. 1gal might have done the whole floor if i had perfectly sprayed 2 light-medium coats, but i went heavy where the manifold and exhaust will be. i got complete coverage, and it'll be way better than just paint alone, so it's done and moving fwd. now i know. the stuff has a rough texture for sure, if i ever hope to clean it i'm going to have to topcoat paint it. it says to wait a few days, then i'll hit it with some summit single stage satin black. ![]() ![]() |
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Just went through your build, looks great!!
Mark.
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Looks great. I went a similar route under my Suburban. I coated the body, fenders, splash pans and running boards. It's held up great for the 2,500 miles worth of road grime.
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Looks good. Truck is coming along nice. I plan on using some type of bed liner material on the 57 I am doing. What type gun did you spray it on with? Steve
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Interesting stuff eh, I think Lizard shin works great IMO.
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Thank You. Steve
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Sprayed over the LizardSkin with Summit Racing single stage satin black this afternoon. That should help it clean up better! Also means the cab is ready to set back on the chassis for good!
The varying texture of the lizard skin took the paint a little differently and created some more and less shiny spots. Not a big deal under the truck, just heads up to anyone doing the same. ![]() ![]() |
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well ... crap ...
things were going quite well yesterday, for a while. i had high hopes and solid ambition to get as many smaller parts painted as possible. figured i'd start by finishing off the only remining orange bits. tent up, heater staged, lights, parts cleaned, primed, even got a really good couple layers of paint laid down. then it wouldn't cure enough for me to flip them over, to finish. i started cleaning up more parts for black, but only got them into primer in the shop before i had to just bring the orange in without flipping for the night. so i still need to paint the other side hopefully tonight. then i wake up at 12:15 to a storm, i thought it was only supposed to just rain. that ends and you can see a bigger stronger cell coming behind now and more wind predicted. so 12:30 and i'm out there taking the stupid tent down, got all wound up, couldn't get back to sleep, and here i am typing this at work half asleep ... :facepalm: ![]() ![]() |
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That sucks... having to tear down the paint booth in the middle of the night.
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That's my kind of luck. Sorry to hear that. At least it was warm enough there to do it outside. Yesterday winter finally caught up with us here. I was changing the oil in the wife's Excursion and it was 24*. Big fun. Some idiot has the garage/shop full of chevys torn apart.
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ok, so new plan ... the tent, it's out ... going to build a large, foldable for easy storage, spray booth so i can just shoot paint in the garage.
3 4x8 sheets of white 1/8" wall board, hinges, some duct tape, a few box fans, furnace filters, and i should be back in business. i gota make it big enough to paint an axle in, and hopefully i can keep it together and use it for future projects. |
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got my booth all set up last night! the fans are on the back just hanging from some hooks, and i put a lazy susan bearing on my stand to spin things. before i paint i'll cover the floor with something, and hang a drop cloth on the garage door behind the fans to make sure nothing sticks to the door.
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with any luck i can get osme guys over to help me set the cab back down the right way here in the next day or 2 ... getting that on the chassis opens up a TON of space in my shop, plus i can open even more by storing stuff in the cab still i move in to work in there.
this painting crap is really a pain and taking a while to deal with ... |
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