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18th December 2021, 10:04 PM
#101
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18th December 2021 10:04 PM
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20th December 2021, 10:39 PM
#102
Patrol Guru
Thank you MB. I see your Mav bracket is a bit different as it tilts backwards while the one I have here is flat, but gives me a good cue. I will see if I can find any specific arrangement of my vac hoses to make use of it when putting it back together.
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21st December 2021, 08:55 AM
#103
Patrol Guru
Rear quarter panel evolution
Left side quarter panel had a deep dent that required some more difficult hammering as at the time we didn't had access to a spot welder. After the initial brute force approach, some more cautious hammering with a dolly support, then some filling and only after we were satisfied with it, a little bondo. Then, it was sanding, priming, sanding, priming... This is how it evolved.
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Right side had only minor defects and came out pretty good.
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At some point, my friend got himself a spot welder, and used the rocker panels to play with his new tool and practice. Came out really good. I don't have before pictures unfortunately.
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21st December 2021, 08:59 AM
#104
Patrol Guru
Out shed paint booth - kind of! LOL.
Without a proper paint-booth and it being rainy and windy over the last weeks, I was looking for a cheap way to close the front part of the garage/shed to get the best results possible as our place is almost "in the wide open". I ended up buying some 15m x 4m greenhouse plastic, the type used to cover flower greenhouses or covering the soil for farming strawberries and stuff. It was the cheapest I could find with enough thickness to be able to hold itself hung without tearing. This is how our "shady paint booth" came out! We filled buckets with water to hold the lower section down, otherwise it would fly into the work area.
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21st December 2021, 09:11 AM
#105
Patrol Guru
Final paint!
Blue paint was applied without the need to mask the lower panel section, we just eyeballed where the color separation would be and let some over-spray to go over that line without much concern.
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Then we took a loooong time marking the color separation line with a very thin tape. I may have walked around the car some 200 times looking corner to corner looking for parallelism and natural curves.
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On top of that delimitation tape, we masked the blue paint.
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And then it was time for "yellowish gray" A.K.A. "shoreline beige".
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Delimitation tape taken out, check this precision cut between colors! WOW! I am SOOO HAPPY with it!
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"Precision" work was done! We took our time for a few beers before moving into clear coating.
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We also decided to store these guys again and leave them for the next opportunity, when we will be painting the front panel, the core support and the engine bay. Blue paint is done, at least.
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21st December 2021, 09:17 AM
#106
Patrol Guru
Clear coat result
Can't say how happy I am with it. I'll let you check for yourselves over the pictures and videos.
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22nd December 2021, 09:07 PM
#107
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22nd December 2021, 09:10 PM
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22nd December 2021, 11:03 PM
#109
Patrol Guru
Thank you folks. There is some real dedication put into this restoration and it is really good to hear from you.
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23rd December 2021, 07:51 AM
#110
Patrol Guru
I agree. Top work on the restoration, it's really looking fantastic.
I'm also enjoying following your progress, keep it coming!
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