Builds Fly By Night

[RUSH55]

always wanted to do a twin stick on mine, then decided to just cut the shift plate for 2lo, then just removed it all together, just lazy i guess.

Hey, where you at? Still in Montana?

 

[RHINO]

Got home this morning

 

[RUSH55]

Underside is fully primed and seam-sealed. The inside of the roof has its first coat of primer too. Working on getting the top of the roof, rain gutters, and windshield frame stripped and primed today.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Very exciting to see it coming to paint!

 

[riderjgs]

Spent a summer on a highway building crew. Worked all summer before a few days of paving.
Kinda like body and paint work. Excited for you.

 

[Ol Yeller]

Spent a summer on a highway building crew. Worked all summer before a few days of paving.
Kinda like body and paint work. Excited for you.

That a great analogy, no one sees all the hard work underneath, just how smooth the blacktop is...

 

[DTC72]

Wish I had a rotisserie! Are you going to line the roof with dynamat or something else? A few weeks ago I sprayed the roof, under the hood, inside firewall, entire inside floor, and inside all doors and tailgate with Lizard Skin sound and heat products…two coats each. I am still far from an actual road test to hear the true noise difference but the tap test especially on the roof has big promise. Honestly though I am still thinking about putting dynamat on the roof…just in case…since once the headliner goes in it is staying in…not a fun job.

 

[RUSH55]

Wish I had a rotisserie! Are you going to line the roof with dynamat or something else? A few weeks ago I sprayed the roof, under the hood, inside firewall, entire inside floor, and inside all doors and tailgate with Lizard Skin sound and heat products…two coats each. I am still far from an actual road test to hear the true noise difference but the tap test especially on the roof has big promise. Honestly though I am still thinking about putting dynamat on the roof…just in case…since once the headliner goes in it is staying in…not a fun job.

Yes, I’m going to put down a layer Dynamat between the sheetmetal and internal roof cage and then some 3/4” Dynaliner between the spaces of the cage.

 

[RUSH55]

Was able to push through to completion yesterday’s goals.
Today gonna work on getting those areas seam-sealed and coated over, then possibly spray a little of this Loadstone paint and see how it looks.

 

[bobm]

ON

 

[bobm]

Love the drain holes in body mounts

 

[RUSH55]

Love the drain holes in body mounts

Hopefully they work out the way they were designed to.
Have also been debating on whether to open up a few holes in the bottom of the rockers and rear 1/4’s

 

[RHINO]

you should,,,, the troopy has them.

 

[scrapdaddy]

rear 1/4’s

I did that very thing after we went swimming. there were some holes , but not big enough to drain the muck. I've found nice size rocks in my body mounts.

 

[bobm]

FLUSH

 

[61twpw]

You’re making sone great progress. Now, if I could only catch up to you.

 

[RUSH55]

You’re making sone great progress. Now, if I could only catch up to you.

I think we’re pretty close Bill… actually, I think you’re ahead of me since you’re engine is done and mine is just a bare block right now.
This part is becoming the PITA I always knew it would be. I’m trying to adhere to the “no bare metal overnight” principle, and knock it out in blocks. At this point want to get done what would be most beneficial to do on the rotisserie, then do the rest of the vertical surfaces after it’s on the frame. Of course there are still these areas that a sanding disc, wire wheel, or flap wheel won’t get to so it needs sand-blasting. No matter what position it’s in on the rotisserie, sand inevitably gets EVERYWHERE and into EVERYTHING. Seems like no matter how much you blow it out or vacuum up the collected piles, there’s still sand and debris rolling around throughout the innards of the tub, which then finds it way to your fresh, wet paint. I’ve got it pretty clean right now, but realized I have several more small areas that are going to require sandblasting to get cleaned, and so here we go again. The upper cowl area and inside of the firewall will need sandblasting.
And then!…
And then this Loadstone paint, it looks a little much on the creamy tan side than the beige I’m going for. This might possibly be due to the underlying white of the B67 EP. What I need to try is laying down some gray 2K primer, then laying the Loadstone over that and see how that looks. If it’s a “no”, then back to a paint shop with an actual code, which I have… somewhere around here.

 

[RUSH55]

Sorry, here’s a pic for you after all the wordiness.
Sprayed a couple cans of this stuff into the upper roof framework and into all the pillars yesterday.

 

[Megadoomer]

I'm still finding walnut shells from when I tried that for 20 mins till I realized it was useless. Maybe run a shop vac near the blasting area and try to pick up most of the media?

 

[RUSH55]

Yeah, probably a lost cause. Be nice to be able to just blast out everything that needs it all at once, then just spin the tub on the rotisserie like the boop wheel from the Price is Right.