Details 40....

Applied a coat of self etching primer to the inside of the cart....

and blasting continued... finished the header panel and blasted the front bumper sight shield...

also the timing cover....

and applied the first layer of bedliner to the cart once the primer dried.

Before calling it a day, I also applied a coat of Eastwood Rust Converter to the transmission crossmember.

More to come..........

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More blasting on Saturday....

applied a second coat of the Eastwood Rust Converter to the garden cart...

and also want to thank Aldon Hart for stopping by after he got off work to help out a bit by starting to knock down the old paint on the engine to get it ready for new color.

Every little bit helps!

Until next time.....

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Details 38....

Well on Friday, I picked up my headers from Kustom Koatings LLC who applied a ceramic coating (titanium color) to them and they really look great!

Saturday was another day of blasting and I also applied a coating of Eastwood Rust Converter to the inside of my wife's little garden cart (like a wheelborrow) in preparation to hitting it with some bedliner. I blasted the outside of the cart and used a Scotch-Brite pad to scuff the paint and rust on the inside of the bed. This is the first time I've actually used the Rust Converter on rust (typically I blast to bare metal) and it seems to be doing the trick. Kinda looks like metal blueing as it transforms the metal & rust... goes from white to purple and continues to get darker and darker until it dries to a flat black color.

Going to try it on some blasted parts for our lawn mower then hit them with some satin polyurethane to see how they look. May do some of my engine fasteners this way rather than painting them.... I'll post results.

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Not a very productive Saturday... broke out my old friend the sand blaster and carried 100lbs of blast media, my hood and a few other things into the blast room to sandblast, filled the hopper with sand, got the first piece into position, drained the water off the air tanks, got all my protective garb on and pulled the trigger..... NOTHING. Fiddled with it for about half an hour before finally giving up and turning my attention to other areas.

Got my fabricated antenna mount and dry fit it to confirm clearances before final welding and trimming....

Looks like it's gonna work out beautifully!

Then I got my 6" rail section out and clamped one side of the hour glass shaped valve cover to determine how much it needed to be pushed back into position....

Looks to be about 1/8"....

I woke about midnight to a revelation as to why the blaster didn't work.... I had turned down the air pressure at the regulator when I was playing with the paint sprayer! Crazy how your mind works!!

Stay tuned.....

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More baby steps Saturday... got the driver side front suspension buttoned up...

and tried out the insulation/sound deadener to the floor.

It is actually residential HVAC duct insulation...

One of the guys on the GTS forum said he used and it actually laid down pretty nicely. Need to stop and get a few more rolls and a roll of the aluminum tape to finish the floor, put inside the doors, the cabin sections of the quarter panels and the roof.

I also removed the gasket remnants from the M/T valve covers in preparation to repairing and having them both powdercoated.

Don't touch that dial!!

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Made a bit more progress today..... got the ball joints torqued to the spindles, resprayed the interior cabin, the trunk floor and wheelhouses...

sandblasted my intake manifold...

and dry fit the M/T valve covers. I discovered one of them is hourglass shaped. I think a couple turnbuckles placed inside should be able to spread it back into shape.??

I also started chasing the various threads on the engine as well.

More to come.....

ZEBRA 3 OUT