Rescue rig project

[DanStokes]

Yea Team!!

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

It's shiny-er




bedline door jamb


next up.... gluing on the rest of the molding.

[yellomalibu]

Nice!!

[Russell]

looks good, did you buff it or paint it?

[JOES66FURY]

Want!

[SuperBuickGuy]

painted it

[milner351]

For the love of all the productivity gods - seriously - do you sleep? I'm stuck in moving hell and you're pumping out paint jobs like maaco...

[SuperBuickGuy]

actually, I've been taking it easy lately.... notice, I still don't have the molding on the side yet

and

I didn't paint it, I just prepped it.

[yellomalibu]

actually, I've been taking it easy lately.... notice, I still don't have the molding on the side yet

and

I didn't paint it, I just prepped it.

Who painted it? A small business/ shop, or Maaco? It looks too flat to be Maaco - they don't sand and buff, that I know of.


...and you deprived us of the "prepped it" photo log!

[SuperBuickGuy]

Narroway Auto body in Bellevue did the painting.... Tory is a pretty nice guy.

I did do the prepping... ages ago, I just never got a warm enough day to actually paint the car (it was that bit about swapping the bed side).

[SuperBuickGuy]

tape


molding


mark this one "done".... from here out, it's all maintenance.

[yellomalibu]

tape


molding


mark this one "done".... from here out, it's all maintenance.

I need to do this to the blue 84. Did you use the pre-cut pieces or did you buy the roll of cut to size molding?

[SuperBuickGuy]

I reused the ones that came off the truck.... it was a bit of work, but seems to have turn out okay. I bought adhesive tape, scraped and cleaned the old adhesive off, then re-adhered it

[yarby]

LOVE the BUILD! Before I lost my leg I use to volunteer fire fighting and my favorite was the grass rigs. We had several old deuce and a half that were unstoppable and of course my favorite. I was wondering if you had considered that your exhaust now sees temps in excess of 1500 degrees and seeing that yours looks like 2 or slightly bigger it may help a little to build a 3 or even 4 inch straight exhaust to get rid of the heat. Wrapping the pipe from the back of the turbo with header wrap will also help a lot. Just food for thought as im no expert just a wrench turner. Keep up the great work always a fan of your threads very detailed and great information.

[SuperBuickGuy]

LOVE the BUILD! Before I lost my leg I use to volunteer fire fighting and my favorite was the grass rigs. We had several old deuce and a half that were unstoppable and of course my favorite. I was wondering if you had considered that your exhaust now sees temps in excess of 1500 degrees and seeing that yours looks like 2 or slightly bigger it may help a little to build a 3 or even 4 inch straight exhaust to get rid of the heat. Wrapping the pipe from the back of the turbo with header wrap will also help a lot. Just food for thought as im no expert just a wrench turner. Keep up the great work always a fan of your threads very detailed and great information.

Thanks a lot - and welcome aboard!

We don't deal with much dry grass where my rig is used - so it's wasn't even really a consideration.... still, an excellent point.