Steve (Rightpedal) asked about my F150 and rather than hijack the "How to get rubber off Paint" thread, I'll start another one -
The F150 was my old DD for several years and is the truck, w/mid-sized box trailer, that I used to move us from MI to NC - repeated trips. It's an '88 with about 75K miles on it (I only deal in "actual/original" miles - what other kind are there?). Anyhow, it had some Michigan iron oxide but not too bad. It's a 5.0 with the Mazda 5 speed and a new clutch. It has power windows, cruise, air, tilt, power door locks, etc. I'm the second owner and I bought it about 10 years ago from a coworker at EPA with like 40 K miles on it - he basically never drove it.
The body work is basically done and I GLUED it together using the Lord Fusor system. I think I have enough pics of the process to post a thread on that. It's strong enough that GM accepts it for unibody structural repairs! I will pick up a NC tailgate if possible - they're a pain to get strong enough to be a tailgate and pretty enough to look right. Besides, there's nothing to replacing one if you're going to paint the truck anyway.
So I got it patched and spot primed then it went outside so I could mess with the Camaro and has been there ever since. ME's getting VERY anxious to get it the heck out of here and I can't say I blame her. This may hold the source of $$ for the high compression six I want to build.
I'm planning to cover the paint process as well. I plan to do it in white with stripes in the original blue - that dark blue that about half of these trucks were painted. Base/clear.
The truck runs pretty well but needs a couple of minor tweaks of the EFI - it idles itself up in some situations. My friend Dave runs a repair shop and worked at the Ford dealer when these were new so he's very familiar with the OBDI system on the ol' boy. Dave says it's almost certainly a sensor (he mentioned it by name but then started speaking in alphabet soup). We'll sort that out before it goes up for sale.
If anyone wants to learn the steps to spraying paint I'd be very happy to have an apprentice for this project. And we can split camera duties, too. We can put you up for as many weekends as necessary - all you have to do is get here. I plan to start right after the October Maxton meet.
Dan
The F150 was my old DD for several years and is the truck, w/mid-sized box trailer, that I used to move us from MI to NC - repeated trips. It's an '88 with about 75K miles on it (I only deal in "actual/original" miles - what other kind are there?). Anyhow, it had some Michigan iron oxide but not too bad. It's a 5.0 with the Mazda 5 speed and a new clutch. It has power windows, cruise, air, tilt, power door locks, etc. I'm the second owner and I bought it about 10 years ago from a coworker at EPA with like 40 K miles on it - he basically never drove it.
The body work is basically done and I GLUED it together using the Lord Fusor system. I think I have enough pics of the process to post a thread on that. It's strong enough that GM accepts it for unibody structural repairs! I will pick up a NC tailgate if possible - they're a pain to get strong enough to be a tailgate and pretty enough to look right. Besides, there's nothing to replacing one if you're going to paint the truck anyway.
So I got it patched and spot primed then it went outside so I could mess with the Camaro and has been there ever since. ME's getting VERY anxious to get it the heck out of here and I can't say I blame her. This may hold the source of $$ for the high compression six I want to build.
I'm planning to cover the paint process as well. I plan to do it in white with stripes in the original blue - that dark blue that about half of these trucks were painted. Base/clear.
The truck runs pretty well but needs a couple of minor tweaks of the EFI - it idles itself up in some situations. My friend Dave runs a repair shop and worked at the Ford dealer when these were new so he's very familiar with the OBDI system on the ol' boy. Dave says it's almost certainly a sensor (he mentioned it by name but then started speaking in alphabet soup). We'll sort that out before it goes up for sale.
If anyone wants to learn the steps to spraying paint I'd be very happy to have an apprentice for this project. And we can split camera duties, too. We can put you up for as many weekends as necessary - all you have to do is get here. I plan to start right after the October Maxton meet.
Dan
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