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Cleaning up surface rust and priming. The pans came pretty well coated in oil, but had to sit for a couple months before I got primer on them. I used basic rustoleum primer. Not a huge fan but it does the job.
We ran out of blasting media and had to use what we could get. Yes, silicosis, I know.
At this point a couple good friends helped me out a lot. One offered to let me use his automotive shop compressor to run a rented media blaster. The other offered his garage to let me get some paint on it.
Before After Inside and underside of all rails was done.
Let the scuffing begin. Im pretty sure at this point I also sprayed all the bare metal down with POR15 acid etch to prep and seal it. Let the scuffing begin. Got hours of help from a mate who helped me scuff literally every inch of the body and underside. Was such a massive help. I had tried to get POR15 sprayed right after sandblasting but ran out of time. Ended up having to scuff everything I sprayed so the next coat would bond.
Ended up cutting off and refabricating the seatbelt mounts as they were somewhat rusted through.
Built a paint room.
Time to coat the whole entire thing in 3 coats of POR15
Those nice rust holes on the roof that jeeps get. Patch looks seamless after a good bit of sanding This stuff is damn good for body work. make a patch and just glue it on. So long as you can clamp it to dry, she will hold.
Now that POR has sealed all the rust, I can tiger hair over every body imperfection.
I screwed up by not capping the adhesive prior to doing the rocker. Had to take it all off and use a new tube. Apparently you cannot leave it exposed to air even though it is 2 part. Had to redo the whole rocker again. Smoothing everything out.
Now I had to drill a few hundred rivet holes ~1.5 inch apart so that I had guides when I dropped the pans in. The plan is to de-burr all these with a file, then drill through the pans using a guide. Once everything was ready a rivet would get dunked in paint and then popped.
Hand painting all the misc hardware. (ended up getting a blasting cabinet, cleaning all this up and spraying POR. Hand painting POR is not a great way to go.
01-17-2019, 08:48 PM
