Builds 3 days and 3300 miles later

buckroseau · Nov 15, 2006

nick said:
Matt,
I've been following your restore and you do great work!
The OEM fenders you got are they the same gauge as the older fenders, how was the fit, and did you have to make any mods to them?
Paul

As far as I can tell the OEM fenders are exactly the same as the ones that came off, same gauge as the old fenders.

Fit was absolutely perfect with no mods. On the lv project I initially had bought some CCOT fenders.......after drilling out a dozen spot welds and realizing I would have to drill almost all of them out I gave up and ordered some OEM ones from Cruiser dan. CCOT junk is approx. $300 a pair, OEM ones are approx. $400 a pair.

That $100 is worth every penny in my opinion..................

Matt

buckroseau · Nov 16, 2006

Got about an hour tonight on the lpb.

Nothing special, hung up a few of the parts I blasted on Sunday. Epoxy primed and a coat of single stage ureathane. Couple fuel lines, body mounts, shock castle nuts, fuel tank straps, jack mount, jack crank, etc.

I would have painted the fuel tank, but haven't got it back yet from that guy. Neighbor is out of town for a week so have another friend scheduled to come over Saturday to give me hand lifting the cab on and getting the fenders installed.

Hoping to start cleaning and bolting some of the other cab parts back in this weekend. Most of the parts were in excellent condition and will require little to no more than cleaning them up and re-installing them. In a perfect world.....it might actually start and run again in a week or so ;p

Matt

merbesfield · Nov 17, 2006

Matt, what did you use for the interior wall material on your paint booth? sheet rock or smooth graded plywood. sheet rock makes sense for $ but wondered if there would be breakage issues due to bumping walls etc. Also, what brand of filters do you use and where do you get them? Are they just std. AC type filters or something special?

treerootCO · Nov 17, 2006

merbesfield said:
Matt, what did you use for the interior wall material on your paint booth? sheet rock or smooth graded plywood. sheet rock makes sense for $ but wondered if there would be breakage issues due to bumping walls etc. Also, what brand of filters do you use and where do you get them? Are they just std. AC type filters or something special?

breakage?

I'm not sure about Matt but my house is drywall and I don't usually run into my walls.

merbesfield · Nov 17, 2006

no i was talking about the walls inside the paint booth. i know that if i put drywall up in the warehouse, my guys would destroy it in short order. the run into everything with equipment, our walls are corrugated metal like the outside of the warehouse and the smash into it all the time. they could break bowling balls. but i was thinking the inside of the booth would see less abuse. i was planning on using a BC plywood, but then thought about the cost vs. drywall and maybe drywall would be sufficient?

Poser · Nov 17, 2006

buckroseau said:
And, I seem to get a lot done when the stereo is wide open on Sirius / Octane 20.......the wife calls it, "the angry" music.......

Matt

Too funny bud...I think they all call it that.

Looking great man!

:beer:

Waggoner5 · Nov 17, 2006

AC is on the way.
G

buckroseau · Nov 17, 2006

merbesfield said:
Matt, what did you use for the interior wall material on your paint booth? sheet rock or smooth graded plywood. sheet rock makes sense for $ but wondered if there would be breakage issues due to bumping walls etc. Also, what brand of filters do you use and where do you get them? Are they just std. AC type filters or something special?

I actually used 4' x 9' sheets of OSB, smooth side towards the inside of the paint booth. 3 coats of ACE highgloss porch and floor enamel later, it looked pretty nice.....and it was cheap. 4 x 9 x 7/16 sheets of OSB at the time were around $7 to $8 bucks, it was cheap.

Filters were just the cheapy 99cents filters at Ace, nothing special. I actually wanted the cheapest ones possible so they would catch the least amount of overspray. Even with the cheap ones they catch to much, plug up.....decided to paint the grass and trees outside.

Matt

buckroseau · Nov 17, 2006

Waggoner5 said:
AC is on the way.
G

Sweet, I'll let my neighbor know.

Thanks Gary, your the man :cheers:

buckroseau · Nov 18, 2006

Got about 9 hours on the lpb today.

Friend of mine came over and helped me set the cab on and the fenders. That actually went really good, cab and fenders are pretty much permanently mounted now. The whole process took a little over an hour and went really good.

Spent the rest of the day cleaning up parts and re-installing in the dash and firewall. That went really good, almost all of the parts that came off the interior were in excellent condition. Little scrubbing with solvent and armor-all and bolt it back up.

Hoping to do a little blasting tomorrow and painting. Got the tank back from the welder guy, got that sealed up. Also want to blast the brake and clutch lines and a few other parts and spray some paint on them. Hoping to fire it back up around Thanksgiving if possible??

Few pics of todays action.

Matt