Shran
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V8 Engine Swap
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Here's what I've been doing
Hood is mostly done, just need to buff the clear coat.
Since my last update, I got the AC working (replaced everything except the compressor, it was a recent new part.) That was a real treat, I fought a no power issue at the compressor for several days before realizing that I had the wrong harness and the AC relay was feeding back into itself. Ice cold air now!
I was going to paint the truck box first, then the front half but my buddy gave me this hood so I decided to play with it. It came out OK. I need to work on my painting technique. Somehow I got faint lines of metallic across the width of the panel. Maybe I didn't stir the paint enough or I needed to overlap more, not sure. You can't tell in the pic but it has a lot of hail damage that shows up in the right light... I thought I had fixed it pretty well but I guess not, oh well, it was a free hood. Still mostly pleased with how it turned out - this was my first time painting with base/clear and really my first time painting a vehicle with something other than spray paint.
My buddy painted the truck previously and I'm just not real happy with how it looks so I am redoing it. There are huge runs, spots that were missed and not painted at all, mega orange peel on the clear coat, dents/dings that weren't fixed... Plan is to sand off the clear, shoot a couple coats of base and a new clear coat. I'm also going to fix a bunch of little screw holes from what I'm assuming was fender flares, big holes in the doors from aftermarket mirrors (will be using sport mirrors on this one) and filling the holes in the fenders where the Ranger badges were attached.
Also found that I have a hole rusted through the roof above the passenger side A pillar so I guess I need to fix that too.
Hood is mostly done, just need to buff the clear coat.
Since my last update, I got the AC working (replaced everything except the compressor, it was a recent new part.) That was a real treat, I fought a no power issue at the compressor for several days before realizing that I had the wrong harness and the AC relay was feeding back into itself. Ice cold air now!
I was going to paint the truck box first, then the front half but my buddy gave me this hood so I decided to play with it. It came out OK. I need to work on my painting technique. Somehow I got faint lines of metallic across the width of the panel. Maybe I didn't stir the paint enough or I needed to overlap more, not sure. You can't tell in the pic but it has a lot of hail damage that shows up in the right light... I thought I had fixed it pretty well but I guess not, oh well, it was a free hood. Still mostly pleased with how it turned out - this was my first time painting with base/clear and really my first time painting a vehicle with something other than spray paint.
My buddy painted the truck previously and I'm just not real happy with how it looks so I am redoing it. There are huge runs, spots that were missed and not painted at all, mega orange peel on the clear coat, dents/dings that weren't fixed... Plan is to sand off the clear, shoot a couple coats of base and a new clear coat. I'm also going to fix a bunch of little screw holes from what I'm assuming was fender flares, big holes in the doors from aftermarket mirrors (will be using sport mirrors on this one) and filling the holes in the fenders where the Ranger badges were attached.
Also found that I have a hole rusted through the roof above the passenger side A pillar so I guess I need to fix that too.