Looks nice, personally, I'd still get those recall plate brackets in there.
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Looks nice, personally, I'd still get those recall plate brackets in there.
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amazing work, looks great!
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Thank you for the kind words guys.
Andy Garand
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Wow! Fantastic effort! You must be wrapped!!
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What did you use to restore the color of the frame?
Dave
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Originally Posted by sdg3205
For the flatter, larger areas I used my Dewalt buffer w/ 3M Ultrafine machine polish and a foam pad @ 1500 RPM.
For the tighter, hard to get to areas and nooks and crannies I used Turtle wax polishing compound by hand.
I then hand waxed everything w/ Turtle wax Extreme cleaner wax.
Andy Garand
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Did you touch up any areas with POR 15 and then paint over the top? If so what color/brand paint did you use?
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I did have to do some touch-up mostly on the lower cross member plate. Where the smaller 5 bolts go through to hold the fuel tank belly pan. I ground down the surface rust that was there to bare metal and treated it with aerosol Duplicolor rust converter.
I feathered out the epoxy in the areas that I ground down.
It took some testing to come out with a good color match. The closest aerosol color I could find was Krylon smoke gray, but it is a tad on the dark side if used straight.
What I did was used a light gray primer close to the color of the frame (Brite touch gray primer). Cover the repair area good with the primer and then you have to dust it off into the area around your repair to blend it. Then use a very light mist coat of the Krylon smoke gray over the top of the primmer. You want to see a bit of the light color from the primmer peeking through the mist coat of the smoke gray. This takes a bit of practice, but turns out to a nice match. Dust off the edges of your repairs with the smoke gray, too just like you did with the primmer.
I then sprayed Duplicolor clearcoat over the entire crossmember plate. Machine polished the whole thing to take away any clearcoat overspary on the edges.
Andy Garand
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Great job! How long did it take you?
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As for the first post.
It has taken over a month of working on it just about every night after work and days off. Just about all front end parts were removed, cleaned, sandblasted or scrubbed, repainted, or re-plated and reassembled.
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