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Dash work looks great Gregski! Eager to see the painted dash.
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Re: A '54 named Busty
All that work and hassle for the dash, couldn't you use a brush?
Just kidding, it's ready now!
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oh trust me Robert, I am all for using a brush, actually ordered a quart of KRYLON Massey Ferguson Gray from NAPA to give it a go - yes with a brush, but I knew things were too good to be true, when it only cost me $2.00 dollars since I had some mystery credit with them, then I got 7 phone calls about my order from NAPA over the weekend, hewk I did not get that type of support when I bought a $850 short block, ha ha - then they said the warehouse that had it had been closed indefinitely do to the virus, so they are cancelling my order - so on a whim I bought this other paint at ACE and so be it
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Sorry to hear about the back spasms to go along with the elbow problems. Sounds like we need to go off line and commiserate.
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so I shot this while on my lunch break and forced myself to wait 4 hours before taking all the masking off - these pics are somewhere mid number of LIGHT coats
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something they don't teach you at Amateur Tech Auto Body LLC is light extension cord management, but you drag that thing across your future ex girlfriends step dad's PT Cruiser candy apple metallic pearl paint job after the seventh and final clear coat, you'll learn right quick, ha ha
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alright so you be the judge, cause when I first looked at it I was all like Shark Tails this looks like primer !!!
so here's the passenger side (I mean the paint job itself looks nice, absolutely no runs) the whole entire time I was a spraying I kept saying in my head light coats Light Coats LIGHT COATS ... and you can't move too quick (worst case you don't cover as well as you should on this pass, but that's better than a run!) |
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so I went outside and I looked at the glove box lid, the steering column and the ash tray, and man they looked really good, I like that hue
so I thought did I use the wrong paint, cause I bought two kinds for testing, but no, I used the correct paint, point being, the stuff looks way different outside in the natural light of the sun, than under fluorescent crappy lighting indoors so I am letting it grow on me, the good news is that it matches the outside of the truck, and I hope as it dries some more it will become more shinny and less primery so here's the driver side |
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so with my "dash" painted and my supply of SEM undercoating no where in sight, it was time to re assemble the front clip
it was sooooo much work wire wheeling all the rust off of these inner fenders, acid washing them, priming them, painting them, and undercoating them, but it is sooooooo nice working with nice clean parts! |
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so the radiator goes back on next and I'll be honest there aint much clearance between the water pump pulley nipple and the tip of the electric fan, but one can wedge their hand between them, plus they are slightly offest by half an inch left and right and sit at least 1.5 inches above one another, though hard to tell in the pics
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the hoodage shuts nice
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now I did have to alter my core support custom brackets a bit, but I ended up latching on to the lower fender support bolt which I am thrilled about, because any time I can count on and rely on a factory mounting I am all in, that insures me leveability from side to side, know what I'm sayin'?
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Really taking shape...Jim
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The dash came out really nice. You do good work.
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On the gray paint, instead of thinking of it s primer, think of it as battleship gray
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so I got my first dependency hurdle that has me stressing, I ordered more cans of that SEM undercoating that I want to use on the floor and firewall of the cab
now I totally get that AMAZON shipping is delayed do to the virus, but (the vendor not Amazon) don't tell me how fast you can deliver it and trick me into buying from you, then mark the order as shipped, but no UPS tracking whatsoever for nearly two weeks, and then 10 days later when I reach out to you, your warehouse says we will ship it today so now the seat can't go back in until I spray this, neither do I want to install the steering column and have to mask around it, or get over spray on my under dash wiring |
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That's just wrong. You are right to hold off until you get the spray done, even if it hurts to do it.
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I like that color for the dash. The interior reminds me of the Raider's colors.
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classic parts I think is shut down for COVID, because I keep getting emails about my window frame screw/sleeves that I ordered being backorder. they should have literally thousands in stock.
looking good, I like the multisegmented eye gauge pods. pareidolia is what its called I think.
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To me that gray appears purposeful and is in support of the exterior. If you actually used primer as a finish coat in the interior, it would be flatter and in my opinion far too literal of a connection with the patina. Any objection to using Dupli-Color or Rust-Oleum spray undercoating? Probably available off-the-shelf in one of your local auto emporia.
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