brave choice of colour due to your love of 4wding.... Each to their own I suppose. Good Luck can't wait to see it out there again. You must be getting excited.
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brave choice of colour due to your love of 4wding.... Each to their own I suppose. Good Luck can't wait to see it out there again. You must be getting excited.
For sure Scotty (83) looking forward to it, lots of work to go yet tho, and its still the same white, just with the xirallic on top, so only one extra coat/proccess to how it was from factory, then add clear, really it is no harder to replicate than any new car with metallic paint made these days.
In fact some of the panels (bonnet and gaurds) on my car have been painted weeks apart from the body and everything matches perfect.
Everyone involved is clear about the fact that i "use" my 4wd a lot, so we all know future paint repair is inevitable, i do want a rest from fixing it, so i plan to take it easy for a while..............well for at least a day or so :clapping:
Yes, yes, and im sure you will be there, and as per normal, you will be first to offer comforting words and great sympathy (when you get back up off the groung, in between the rolling fits of pointing and girly laughter) hahaha !Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigrig
That doesn't sound too bad then. Always imagined it to be much more involved than that. Imagine how it will glisten in the photos once you are done. Will have to turn off the flash. lol. You wont know yourself.
Yes i think it will be OK, the painter chose/suggested the colour and how to apply it, knowing i will most likley be back at some stage for repairs , and that HE will have to match the colour, i doubt he will have suggested to make his future job that much more difficult ?
In reality, i think ill have to try very hard to get the car to look anything but plain white, but im damb sure gonna try get some "sparkly" pics , thats for sure ! (ha-ha)
Look forward to hitting the tracks with you sometime again mate (hope you dont go swimming like last time)
The bluey has had a few upgrades since then. Steel bullbar and some muddies for track days. Some tyres with tread have really helped. Was probably pushing the limits last time. lol Really looking forward to getting out with the crew again.
Cool, what brand and size muddies you get ?
Flares turned up this week, they look like very good copies of nissan ones, and come with new rubbers as well, i have not test fitted them yet, but if they fit as well as they look , i will be very happy.....
One side shown (i did get a full set tho)
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I will be painting these with the same black i had the factory ones done in, this ensures no fading in the sun, and makes touching up marks easy.
After my attempts to "beach proof" the rest of the car, i thought i would take a look at my Tigerz winch, i deliberatly left the winch out in the back yard fully exposed to the elements for the last 7+ months, i pulled it apart to check for corrosion and water ingress, and was very pleased to find evidence of little to nothing.
It had the usual minor rust starting on the bolt heads, and also the clutch handle, it looks like a well made winch inside, the only one design issue i can see, was the female bolt thread that secures the rope to the drum, leads straight "inside" the bearing cavity protected by water seal, nothing a bit of thread sealer wont fix, but would surley lead to problems down the track if not attended to, other than that it looks like it would go the distance untouched.
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I decided, while i had the thing apart, id go to town with the Por 15, first i did the drum, taking care to leave the texture on the drum for rope friction....
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Then i moved to the area behind the drum....
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And i thought i may as well do the rest of the winch with Por 15, id previously sealed all the electrical connectors and magnet screws with Sikaflex (as these seem to rust on every winch ive seen), i also painted over select parts again in white ,then a few coats of clear (white so they can be seen easy for operating at night)
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I greased everything i could get to before re-assembly.:p
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Where do you get the time? :(
You can fit quite a bit into a day when you start at 7am and finish at 11pm, stupid cars ! (lol)
All the white panels are finished now, ive yet to bolt the guards on, i decided to get 316 stainless steel Allen head bolts/washers for the gaurd bolts , mostly because all 3 times i had to remove them in the past, the very bottom bolts broke off flush due to corrosion.
I still need to put some black 2 pac over the Por 15 on the sides of the chassis rails and also the suspension arms and parts exposed to sunlight etc, then the car will get every cavity i can find pumped with rustproofing.
I didnt like the body deadeners i found on the market, they all seemed to stay just tacky enough to attract sand, I ended up using Stonegaurd to coat the whole underside of the car, it sets firm and dry, but has enough bounce to not chip easy (i guess it is stonegaurd after all,lol), so far ive used nearly 7 Litres of it under the car, and ive another 3L to put under it to thicken all the high impact areas such as behind the tyres etc.
Well after months of getting stuffed around and stuffed around and still not getting my paint job "fixed" how i want it, ive finally realised im getting nowwhere fast at my current panel shop, so i reluctantly paid my bill to release my car back into my possesion, and on 24/9/12 my car finally arrived home on a tow truck.
Things have certainly gone very backwards, id hoped the panel shop would have taken it upon them selves to fix the errors and make me happy, ive asked and asked and got little satisfaction, it became quite clear ,i was to just leave the car there "forever" and cut my losses, or pay my bill, get the car and cut my losses.
I negotiated a reduction on the bill, not enough to fix all the problems (im still finding), but better than nothing, ill get up more details when ive got time, and list the issues, but the bottom line is, now it will need to go to another panel shop :frown: