All night I was thinking about the blobs of paint I experienced yesterday. I started to wonder if I had the light on my spray gun a little far forward so then it was collecting paint from the edge of the fan pattern and then once enough collected it would drip off into the spray. I went out and...
I got the replacement front doors painted this weekend. Initially the plan was to just do the bottom color change from silver to sandalwood and then just spiff up the emerald green….. but after seeing how well the bodywork and paint on the bottom of the doors turned out yesterday, I decided it...
I pulled the engine back out of the truck.
I pulled it because I wanted to change the torque converter. The converter I put in it previously was War Wagon’s 2400 stall Yank converter that he had in Patch. It would have likely worked fine, but I was worried it was a little too much stall for...
I transferred the door emblem over to the replacement door. That seemed like the more appropriate look for this truck instead of having shaved emblems.
Yesterday I got the cargo doors swapped out on this thing. I bought pins and bushings from Cunningham Machine. Really good stuff. I also bought their pin removal tool - that works great on the lower pins, but is useless on the upper pins. I thought about making my own tool for the uppers, but...
I rebuilt a heater box for this. I put all new heater core and evaporator in it. I also put new blend doors in it (I bought some before they were discontinued). I also tested the actuators to make sure the motors functioned and then put new gears in from blenddoor.com.
Last week I had the fenders and the radiator support acid dipped to remove the paint and rust. This uncovered a big dent in the driver side fender. I forgot to take a “before” pic, but after some time with the stud welder, slide hammer and shrinking disc I got it decent. It’s still a little low...