72 duster Build progress
yet another day that I didnt get as much done as planned. Got ahold of my heating and cooling guy,told him I needed a new gas valve ...he said "yup I got one, so I got the new gas valve,came home and drained the tank,removed all the old parts,installed the new valve, went to hook it all up and of course my burner pipe fitting is a reverse thread and the one he gave me is a standard thread.
so now I have to take it all back apart and call him in the morning and try and get the right part this time and THEN hopefully I can get the hot water working again....cold showers suck lol.
anyways....all of that crap aside. I did manage to get some stuff done to the grille today. I got a few more coats of black on the grille ,got it all masked off and ready to paint the fins tomorrow. and I also finished stripping the anodizing off the chrome top and bottom grille trim. I polished one of them up and its done and I still have to finish polishing the other one tomorrow and then it will be done.
here are some before and after pics of the trim.
and some pictures i took while i was doing so tedious masking around the fins lol (forgot to take pictures of it completely masked off but I will take some tomorrow and post them)
yet another day that I didnt get as much done as planned. Got ahold of my heating and cooling guy,told him I needed a new gas valve ...he said "yup I got one, so I got the new gas valve,came home and drained the tank,removed all the old parts,installed the new valve, went to hook it all up and of course my burner pipe fitting is a reverse thread and the one he gave me is a standard thread.
so now I have to take it all back apart and call him in the morning and try and get the right part this time and THEN hopefully I can get the hot water working again....cold showers suck lol.
anyways....all of that crap aside. I did manage to get some stuff done to the grille today. I got a few more coats of black on the grille ,got it all masked off and ready to paint the fins tomorrow. and I also finished stripping the anodizing off the chrome top and bottom grille trim. I polished one of them up and its done and I still have to finish polishing the other one tomorrow and then it will be done.
here are some before and after pics of the trim.
and some pictures i took while i was doing so tedious masking around the fins lol (forgot to take pictures of it completely masked off but I will take some tomorrow and post them)
