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My Current Progress...
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Here some of the stripping on the firewall has
been started. I put the cab up on some more blocks to get it higher in the
air to sand the rockers. |
| Most all of the exterior paint has been or will
be totally removed to bare metal... with the exception of the interior.
I am just scuffing the paint to give a better surface for the primer. A
majority of this paint will just be covered with interior in the end. |
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The passenger floor-board was covered mostly
with rust. So far, I have wire brushed it all off in hopes of using rust
converter to avoid that problem in the future. |
| On the places of the cab that I could reach,
I was slowly running out of paint to sand. The only thing that remained
was the underside. The bare cab weighs in around 400 pounds, so with the
help of a couple of guys, it was turned upsidedown in a matter of moments. |
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Now the work really began! There is virtually
no rust on the bottom of the cab... just a lot of stubborn dirt. A few hours
of with the grinder showed the solid floor underneath. |
| Although this view may be a little disorienting,
this is a shot of the inner rocker. If you compare this to the inner
rockers of my other cab its a difference between day and night! |
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After cleaning out every corner
of the cab bottom, we primered it! Shortly after, I went over the entire
bottom with seam sealer to prevent future rust problems.
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| Here, you can see the firewall has been seam
sealed and virtually all of the cab's exterior paint has been stripped.
Because body work is so labor intensive, I'm leaving the interior paint
alone, as I'll only cover it up with carpeting or interior of some sort. |
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This shows the seam sealed door jam. The cab
has also been sanded again, this time using 180 grit paper to smooth things
up a bit. |
| This is a shot taken midway through priming
the cab. The blurry guy shooting paint is me, of course :-) |
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Here's the finished product from weeks of sanding,
grinding, and otherwise preparing of the cab. |
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