Painting

Richie called to say the parts were cleaned, so I went out to pick them up.  I’m not sure if they are really clean enough to paint, I have to fig­ure it out and if not, send them out to be media blasted before paint. Clean Suspension Maybe I am just being to para­noid, but at this point I just want to be sure they are done right I’m more con­cerned with qual­ity than speed right now so I will think about it before mov­ing on.  Back at the shop, I worked on the pas­sen­ger side blis­ter paint­ing the inte­rior with POR-15 to deal with any resid­ual rust, when it is cured I will fiber­glass the inte­rior of it, insu­late it with neo­prene and install it on the fire­wall look­ing like new.  With the heater core out I pulled the whole park­ing brake assem­bly out, cleaned and painted it too.  I also put a coat of POR-15 on the fire­wall where the blis­ters will mount.Firewall After

At this stage, the frame on the driver’s side is com­pletely cleared except for the steer­ing box which will be com­ing off soon.  Once that is gone, we will clean and com­pletely paint the frame before we begin to assem­ble it again.

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