Gerahead's 71 Dart
Had a little bit of a break in the project. I had out of town visitors for a couple of weeks, but I am back at it. I made the mistake (?) of going over the car with a critical eye to see if I had missed anything up to this point. I found about 18 minor flaws to take a look an additional look at. I needed to do additional work on a couple of areas that didn't cut the mustard. These areas have now been filled and sanded to 240. I will shoot some additional high build, sand them down to 400 and re-seal. I will embark on converting a portion of the garage into a paint booth for applying the color. In addition, I took the previously cleaned and stripped k-frame and acid etched it, brushed on some POR-15 and overcoated with a good coat of gloss black paint.
I finally put the ball joint socket that I bought about 20 years ago to use and broke down the upper control arms so they could be refurbished. I wire wheeled the upper control arms, the spindles and the drag link. after the wheeling, I bead blasted and acid treated the upper control arms to prep for POR. I applied self-etching primer to the drag link and then applied a couple coats of Seymour Cast Blast paint. There were yellow paint daubs under the grease and gunk at the top end of the spindles.
Had a little bit of a break in the project. I had out of town visitors for a couple of weeks, but I am back at it. I made the mistake (?) of going over the car with a critical eye to see if I had missed anything up to this point. I found about 18 minor flaws to take a look an additional look at. I needed to do additional work on a couple of areas that didn't cut the mustard. These areas have now been filled and sanded to 240. I will shoot some additional high build, sand them down to 400 and re-seal. I will embark on converting a portion of the garage into a paint booth for applying the color. In addition, I took the previously cleaned and stripped k-frame and acid etched it, brushed on some POR-15 and overcoated with a good coat of gloss black paint.
I finally put the ball joint socket that I bought about 20 years ago to use and broke down the upper control arms so they could be refurbished. I wire wheeled the upper control arms, the spindles and the drag link. after the wheeling, I bead blasted and acid treated the upper control arms to prep for POR. I applied self-etching primer to the drag link and then applied a couple coats of Seymour Cast Blast paint. There were yellow paint daubs under the grease and gunk at the top end of the spindles.