scratched my pretty red paint

[user42]

Homage to Dan, "you'll scratch the pretty red paint". I scratched it, or the bondo under. Jesus how thick can people can people put this crap on!. Welding in the fuel fill recess I made
to replace the plastic crap that was in there.

 

[hudyhue]

Lol well see drake the bono is lighter that the steel tub .... Lol

 

[user42]

Progress????!

Normally Bondo is lighter than steel, but this stuff was applied by a budding sculptor. I do not exaggerate when I say it was 1/4" thick, at minimum on the entire right rear, and rocker panel.

Started on just taking the rear quarter panel down to metal, then I got to the rocker panel. I knew the rocker panel had bondo on it as well, as it was cracking all along its length. So I decided to grind that down as well, and then just kept going. Might as well do the entire side right Had to take the exhaust off the right side so I could hammer the rocker panel flat (it was concave, thus the extraordinary bondo application. 5 bux says it sits higher on the right now due to all the bondo I took off Just need to patch a few holes, and start hand sanding tomorrow. Should have it back together in time for the new years day run....then I'll likely strip the paint off the entire thing and go dune beige...or something close.

Rather than cut out, and fill in the stock fuel filler...I'm going to use that for an air connection from my compressor

At least I have the new fuel tank in and complete, something went right...well more or less.

 

[user42]

Jerome wins understatemen of the year award!

Last year, New Years Day run in fact, Jerome at one point looked at my 40 and said "Is there Bondo on that thing?", to which I responded in the affirmative. I knew it had some bondo on it, I didnt think it was gallons of the stuff though.

The bib had bondo on it, as did the left front fender...gobs of it. Cut out and repaired the bib, and wire-wheeled all the bondo off the fender. Once I started stripping it down to metal, I couldn't very well stop half way. Even on the parts with no bondo, the paint is so thick, it leaves a 1/8" ridge. There are 8 layers of paint, it was painted red twice most recently. Grey primer was used the most recent time, the time prior a brick red primer was used. Prior to that it was beige? yellow? not sure but that paint is seriously tough, very difficult to remove. The original dark green is down there as well in some spots.

 

[D'Animal]

Dang, you should get better fuel mileage with all the extra weight removed. Lol

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[user42]

Damn straight

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[RAYJON]

production body work, hammer and bondo... you would think they could learn to use a torch and a pin gun... nice to see you are fixing it right, and there wasn't a bunch of rust under there,,,,

 

[user42]

Finally! Assembly will begin shortly, after I blow off the pink dust out of all the nooks and crannies. Had to replace the left side rocker, and the bit of the rear quarter panel just behind it, not to mention grinding off 2 gallons of Bondo. Seam sealed everything that needed it. Still more work to do, but this is a rolling refurb, not a resto. Damn I miss driving it.

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[user42]

What do you guys think about this to modify the girder I have for a front bumper? Cut off on the lines and angle the bottom up.

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[user42]

Nevermind I don't like that.

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[user42]

Wooooot

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[D'Animal]

Is that paint or primer?

 

[user42]

paint, its flat khaki

 

[hudyhue]

The color looks cool in person hard to judge from the pics here.