What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 - Page 84 - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

MiraclePieCo · 11-11-2018, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Got the fenders primed, WHOO HOOOO! Off to the Goodguys.

Brian

Your primer looks better than most people's paint. You'd almost think you did that for a living or something...

MARTINSR · 11-11-2018, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

Your primer looks better than most people's paint. You'd almost think you did that for a living or something...

You know what's funny, I DID it for a living but haven't primed at work for 20 years!

One thing that blows me away is how fast it becomes old hat. The first time I was priming one of these parts and I knew I was out of primer before it stopped spraying, buy the weight of the gun, that blew my mind, I had forgotten that would even happen.

I put a bunch of stuff for sale on eBay hopefully will sell it all so I can get my frame powdercoated without having to dip into the family money. That's one thing I have tried to do, sell off stuff I don't need to pay for stuff on my truck. I found out yesterday that my NOS 56 California license plates are worth about $500! WHOOOO HOOOO!
And my "Club plaques" I have had up on my garage wall for 25 years, just another thing to move when I go to Idaho, might as well sell them now and pay for something on the truck!

Brian

mikebte · 11-11-2018, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

You know what's funny, I DID it for a living but haven't primed at work for 20 years!

One thing that blows me away is how fast it becomes old hat. The first time I was priming one of these parts and I knew I was out of primer before it stopped spraying, buy the weight of the gun, that blew my mind, I had forgotten that would even happen.

I put a bunch of stuff for sale on eBay hopefully will sell it all so I can get my frame powdercoated without having to dip into the family money. That's one thing I have tried to do, sell off stuff I don't need to pay for stuff on my truck. I found out yesterday that my NOS 56 California license plates are worth about $500! WHOOOO HOOOO!
And my "Club plaques" I have had up on my garage wall for 25 years, just another thing to move when I go to Idaho, might as well sell them now and pay for something on the truck!

Brian

Love the old plaques, super cool. Plates are worth there weight in gold. Must have for a classic car owner.

DransportGarage · 11-11-2018, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

You know what's funny, I DID it for a living but haven't primed at work for 20 years!

One thing that blows me away is how fast it becomes old hat. The first time I was priming one of these parts and I knew I was out of primer before it stopped spraying, buy the weight of the gun, that blew my mind, I had forgotten that would even happen.

I put a bunch of stuff for sale on eBay hopefully will sell it all so I can get my frame powdercoated without having to dip into the family money. That's one thing I have tried to do, sell off stuff I don't need to pay for stuff on my truck. I found out yesterday that my NOS 56 California license plates are worth about $500! WHOOOO HOOOO!
And my "Club plaques" I have had up on my garage wall for 25 years, just another thing to move when I go to Idaho, might as well sell them now and pay for something on the truck!

Brian

You got some neat stuff !!!

mikebte · 11-11-2018, 06:07 PM

Installed the check engine light, installed and arranged a bunch of the stuff in and around the dash. Ran my A/C ducting aND found a GM key that does not go to my truck.

svr · 11-11-2018, 07:29 PM

Plan was to warm up the shop and reprime some areas that i sanded through the primer. Mother nature didnt cooperate. Temps this morning were 23 and foggy, not the 34 and clear so the air would warm up to 50'ish so my heat source could get things warmed up and keep them there, it made 28 is as warm as it got today. Nothing happened

MARTINSR · 11-11-2018, 08:19 PM

I stripped the header panel on the bed today, I am BEAT, BEAT!

I had straightened both sides, the entire thing was covered, both sides, with bondo. Now mind you, maybe an 1/8" tops, it's not a lot, but over about 10 square feet! HOLY CRAP that was a lot of work.

I have to REALLY re-think stripping the bed sides, they are the same, I have to REALLY re-think this. I don't know what the heck the difference was, the fenders stripped pretty easy with paint stripper, bondo and all. But this part, I don't get it, the stuff laughed at the paint stripper!

Yep, I have to re-think this whole bed, crap.

Brian

DransportGarage · 11-11-2018, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

I stripped the header panel on the bed today, I am BEAT, BEAT!

I had straightened both sides, the entire thing was covered, both sides, with bondo. Now mind you, maybe an 1/8" tops, it's not a lot, but over about 10 square feet! HOLY CRAP that was a lot of work.

I have to REALLY re-think stripping the bed sides, they are the same, I have to REALLY re-think this. I don't know what the heck the difference was, the fenders stripped pretty easy with paint stripper, bondo and all. But this part, I don't get it, the stuff laughed at the paint stripper!

Yep, I have to re-think this whole bed, crap.

Brian

I've started factoring in how long I'll probably live before I do tasks like that... (but I usually do what's best for the truck.)

MARTINSR · 11-11-2018, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DransportGarage

I've started factoring in how long I'll probably live before I do tasks like that... (but I usually do what's best for the truck.)

I am torn, the bed sides look pretty good with just a little rust here and there. But it's all lacquer like the panel I did today. And lacquer doesn't protect that well, so this from panel did have some rust here and there. I plan on having it sand blasted too, even though I stripped it because there is a bunch that still needs to be blasted. I may do it here but it SUCKS.

I have even tossed around the idea of buying new, and that SUCKS because this is my bed, it looks real nice, if I left what was there and just fixed the rust here and there sand blasting and what not and then sand everything down thinner with 120 and epoxy primed the whole thing. It would save me a LOT of work over stripping it.

Brian

DransportGarage · 11-11-2018, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

I am torn, the bed sides look pretty good with just a little rust here and there. But it's all lacquer like the panel I did today. And lacquer doesn't protect that well, so this from panel did have some rust here and there. I plan on having it sand blasted too, even though I stripped it because there is a bunch that still needs to be blasted. I may do it here but it SUCKS.

I have even tossed around the idea of buying new, and that SUCKS because this is my bed, it looks real nice, if I left what was there and just fixed the rust here and there sand blasting and what not and then sand everything down thinner with 120 and epoxy primed the whole thing. It would save me a LOT of work over stripping it.

Brian

As I began to read your post I thought, I'd block it down til I hit metal, one coat hi solids primer, guide coat & block w/ P400, seal and shoot color. I shot over the original nitrocellulose lacquer with acrylic lacquer on my '55 Chevy sedan in 1981, and it looks GREAT today! Seriously. (Attached pic taken in 2011 when I did the 4 wheel disc brake conversion. It's an L.A. car w/ 61,000 miles on it - best sedan in Ohio! Many trophies, w/ triple trophies at the CCC regional in 1982...)

MiraclePieCo · 11-12-2018, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

I stripped the header panel on the bed today, I am BEAT, BEAT! HOLY CRAP that was a lot of work.
I have to REALLY re-think stripping the bed sides, they are the same, I have to REALLY re-think this. I don't know what the heck the difference was, the fenders stripped pretty easy with paint stripper, bondo and all. But this part, I don't get it, the stuff laughed at the paint stripper!

Yep, I have to re-think this whole bed, crap.

Brian

If it's that well adhered, it ain't goin' nowhere - shoot over it! Heck, if you bought a Boyd Coddington or Chip Foose car it would have that much bondo. Trying to be better than Foose would tire anyone out, ha ha!

MARTINSR · 11-12-2018, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

If it's that well adhered, it ain't goin' nowhere - shoot over it! Heck, if you bought a Boyd Coddington or Chip Foose car it would have that much bondo. Trying to be better than Foose would tire anyone out, ha ha!

Oh I ain't trying to be better, OH HELL NO, I don't have a thing about Bondo. Crap, that bondo if even sorta done properly will out last all of us!

My big thing is the rust, I am going to spend some time with it and see. The front panel, pretty sure I am going to by a new one. Then I have to see about that tail gate, I did it nice 35 years ago but it has cracked some, we will see.

Brian

evilokc · 11-11-2018, 08:47 PM

drove it all weekend. the cold weather doesn't seem to bother it at all. doesn't miss a lick. tonight im going to try and get the hood sitting back on correctly and im having a door hinge issue. started running some beats to get my settings right for my firewall patch panel. got a few nice ones and then ran out of gas. figures right. I will get some gas tomorrow and continue

MARTINSR · 11-11-2018, 09:22 PM

I just looked up the cost and I could have a whole bed for about $950 DAAAAAAMN that's hard to turn down! CRAP

The sand blasting of this stuff if I were to strip it would be around $300 at least. So now we are talking $650 or so with no work, where as the bed would be probably at least 20-40 hours to get it paint ready. That's a hell of a lot of five minutes a day!

CRAP

Brian

MARTINSR · 11-11-2018, 10:24 PM

That's how it was done 35 years ago Bob, it's really pretty solid, other than the lacquer primer and paint on top of it and the spots here and there of rust. But also, what would I be leaving that I don't see under the primer or filler?

It's a tough one.

Brian

Black_Sheep · 11-11-2018, 11:40 PM

I rearranged the garage and covered up my toys...

MiraclePieCo · 11-12-2018, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Black_Sheep

I rearranged the garage and covered up my toys...

But, but, but you can't look at your beautiful truck every day when it's all covered up!

MiraclePieCo · 11-12-2018, 01:59 AM

Since all my wiring worked perfectly, I began the task of bundling it up and securing it. First step was mounting my dimmer switch to the floor, then enclosing exposed wires in split tubing.

For securing the wires I found these awesome little self-mounting zip ties. They are like a conventional zip tie but with a snap-fit mount at the base that plugs into a 1/4" hole - no clamp, screw or bolt required.

DransportGarage · 11-12-2018, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

But, but, but you can't look at your beautiful truck every day when it's all covered up!

...but if you see them every day with their clothes off you start to take them for granted... NOT!

MARTINSR · 11-12-2018, 12:03 AM

You have a beautiful garage Mark, that's for sure.

Brian

MARTINSR · 11-12-2018, 12:36 AM

I am feeling better, a bunch of my stuff is selling on ebay and I have my money to get the frame and other stuff powder coated, WHOOO HOOO! After Thanksgiving, it will get done. WHOOO HOOO!

Brian

MARTINSR · 11-13-2018, 12:22 AM

I got the rest of the parking brake parts sandblasted, along with all four lower fender braces and will get them primed over the next few days.

I can't believe all the sand I wasted up until a few weeks ago when I started re-using it. I do all the blasting over a concrete area behind the garage, use something to block it, in this case an inner fender. I sweep it up, filter it through a screen clamped to the bucket with vice grips and wham, I am using it over and over and over!

Brian

yossarian19 · 11-13-2018, 11:20 AM

Today is still young but yesterday, hauled ~1,000 lbs of gravel up to the retaining wall I'm back filling. It creaks and pops a little under the load but goes, stops and steers just fine.

MiraclePieCo · 11-13-2018, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by yossarian19

Today is still young but yesterday, hauled ~1,000 lbs of gravel up to the retaining wall I'm back filling. It creaks and pops a little under the load but goes, stops and steers just fine.

Is that the truck in your Over My Head build thread?

MiraclePieCo · 11-13-2018, 11:43 PM

At the muffler shop today, I got a complete exhaust system installed but I'm not happy with it. They installed the pipes much too high, running them too close to fuel and brake lines, wiring and the floors. Looks like I'm going to have to have a confrontation with them tomorrow. On the bright side, it sounds killer! But now I can hear all the other rattles!

Then when I got home my door bumpers were waiting in the mail. $3.99 from Jegs Ebay store with free shipping - what a deal! It took a few minutes to install them, cause I had to remove my striker plates, then reinstall and readjust.

11-11-2018, 06:07 PM	#5
mikebte Registered User Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 639	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 Installed the check engine light, installed and arranged a bunch of the stuff in and around the dash. Ran my A/C ducting aND found a GM key that does not go to my truck. Attached Images __________________ 1959 Chevy Apache 3100/ 283 TBI / 4L60E My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mikebtte

11-11-2018, 07:29 PM	#6
svr Registered User Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Othello washington Posts: 400	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 Plan was to warm up the shop and reprime some areas that i sanded through the primer. Mother nature didnt cooperate. Temps this morning were 23 and foggy, not the 34 and clear so the air would warm up to 50'ish so my heat source could get things warmed up and keep them there, it made 28 is as warm as it got today. Nothing happened __________________ 57 short box, 235, T5, C4 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=739132

11-11-2018, 08:19 PM	#7
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 I stripped the header panel on the bed today, I am BEAT, BEAT! I had straightened both sides, the entire thing was covered, both sides, with bondo. Now mind you, maybe an 1/8" tops, it's not a lot, but over about 10 square feet! HOLY CRAP that was a lot of work. I have to REALLY re-think stripping the bed sides, they are the same, I have to REALLY re-think this. I don't know what the heck the difference was, the fenders stripped pretty easy with paint stripper, bondo and all. But this part, I don't get it, the stuff laughed at the paint stripper! Yep, I have to re-think this whole bed, crap. Brian Attached Images __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"

11-11-2018, 08:47 PM	#13
evilokc Registered User Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: albuquerque New Mexico Posts: 522	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 drove it all weekend. the cold weather doesn't seem to bother it at all. doesn't miss a lick. tonight im going to try and get the hood sitting back on correctly and im having a door hinge issue. started running some beats to get my settings right for my firewall patch panel. got a few nice ones and then ran out of gas. figures right. I will get some gas tomorrow and continue

11-11-2018, 09:22 PM	#14
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 I just looked up the cost and I could have a whole bed for about $950 DAAAAAAMN that's hard to turn down! CRAP The sand blasting of this stuff if I were to strip it would be around $300 at least. So now we are talking $650 or so with no work, where as the bed would be probably at least 20-40 hours to get it paint ready. That's a hell of a lot of five minutes a day! CRAP Brian __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"

11-11-2018, 10:24 PM	#15
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 That's how it was done 35 years ago Bob, it's really pretty solid, other than the lacquer primer and paint on top of it and the spots here and there of rust. But also, what would I be leaving that I don't see under the primer or filler? It's a tough one. Brian __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"

11-11-2018, 11:40 PM	#16
Black_Sheep Registered User Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: upper midwest Posts: 1,129	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 I rearranged the garage and covered up my toys... Attached Images __________________ Mark Brother's keeper - '58 Stepside build

11-12-2018, 01:59 AM	#18
MiraclePieCo Registered User Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: USA Posts: 2,249	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 Since all my wiring worked perfectly, I began the task of bundling it up and securing it. First step was mounting my dimmer switch to the floor, then enclosing exposed wires in split tubing. For securing the wires I found these awesome little self-mounting zip ties. They are like a conventional zip tie but with a snap-fit mount at the base that plugs into a 1/4" hole - no clamp, screw or bolt required. Attached Images __________________ 1951 Chevy Panel Truck

11-12-2018, 12:03 AM	#20
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 You have a beautiful garage Mark, that's for sure. Brian __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"

11-12-2018, 12:36 AM	#21
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 I am feeling better, a bunch of my stuff is selling on ebay and I have my money to get the frame and other stuff powder coated, WHOOO HOOO! After Thanksgiving, it will get done. WHOOO HOOO! Brian __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"

11-13-2018, 12:22 AM	#22
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 I got the rest of the parking brake parts sandblasted, along with all four lower fender braces and will get them primed over the next few days. I can't believe all the sand I wasted up until a few weeks ago when I started re-using it. I do all the blasting over a concrete area behind the garage, use something to block it, in this case an inner fender. I sweep it up, filter it through a screen clamped to the bucket with vice grips and wham, I am using it over and over and over! Brian __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"

11-13-2018, 11:20 AM	#23
yossarian19 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Nevada City, CA Posts: 908	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 Today is still young but yesterday, hauled ~1,000 lbs of gravel up to the retaining wall I'm back filling. It creaks and pops a little under the load but goes, stops and steers just fine. __________________ "Over my head" 1957 Chevy 3200, big rear window & 6 lug. Front disc, power steering, Vortec 4.8 / 4L60E swap, hydro boost brakes & patina.

11-13-2018, 11:43 PM	#25
MiraclePieCo Registered User Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: USA Posts: 2,249	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 At the muffler shop today, I got a complete exhaust system installed but I'm not happy with it. They installed the pipes much too high, running them too close to fuel and brake lines, wiring and the floors. Looks like I'm going to have to have a confrontation with them tomorrow. On the bright side, it sounds killer! But now I can hear all the other rattles! Then when I got home my door bumpers were waiting in the mail. $3.99 from Jegs Ebay store with free shipping - what a deal! It took a few minutes to install them, cause I had to remove my striker plates, then reinstall and readjust. __________________ 1951 Chevy Panel Truck Last edited by MiraclePieCo; 11-14-2018 at 01:39 PM.



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