Started for town to get more blasting media and gas for the welder but came upon a grass fire and the road was closed... turned around and got some ice cream at the corner shop and worked till I ran out of media....
1966 Factory V8 Valiant Signet Restoration For My Other Daughter
- Thread starter Jim Kueneman
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abdywgn
dismantler
DAD! What did you do to my car! Are you going to remember how it goes back together?
Needed to double up for the new sandblaster but she now will run until I want out from under the helmet. The perfect cocktail is 50/50 medium coal slag and Starblast. Trunk will be the most rust free of ALL the cars! The trunk pan will be here next week and my benefactor (@cosgig) has sent the quarter panel upper from the rusted out beast who was laid to rest this weekend. She gave till the end. Notice the ONLY way to eradicate the cancerous rust is to beat it all out with the media blaster, NOT cover it up with snake oil like POR-15...
Oh and why does this SOB have 1/2" of undercoating in the wheel wells..... I am dreading that job...
Oh and why does this SOB have 1/2" of undercoating in the wheel wells..... I am dreading that job...
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abdywgn
dismantler
wish you were closer;I enjoyed undercoating removal. only scarey part is the flaming goo dropping off the underbelly onto hopefully the ground and not me. now, I have a heat gun for the next time I UNDERtake the job.
i have done 3 with the heat gun. I would rather have it burst into flames and the undercoating fall off!
abdywgn
dismantler
might be difficult to scrape off the concrete. mine was on asphalt, probably helped fill in some of the damaged spots from me all those years.
Try easy off oven cleaner, heard it works well. Just need to rinse with soda water to neutralize it.
You might want to look into a needle scaler. It would require a healthy compressor though. I got mine from Grainger for a bit over $100 and it went through that crap like a hot knife through butter.
abdywgn
dismantler
Looks good! A few more major pieces and it'll be as good as new...or better!
if you’ve seen Jim’s cars, you know it’ll be better than new!
JayinMI
Well-Known Member
Kinda reminds me of a lowrider with a high lockup in this picture. lol
You should have started a Youtube channel 3 cars ago, you'd have 200k subscribers easy!
Great work!
Mineallmine
Well-Known Member
As always, amazing work.
I like them especially because they are LIGHT. They don't need a monster of an engine, or even a V8 to make them slap FUN. In fact, of the several I've had, Vixen with her hot slant 6 is by far the most fun. We are really enjoying it.
Agree, the 225 we built for the Dart is by far my favorite to drive... it is a hoot and a half!
Two pieces makes one mostly complete quarter panel! I burned up the last tool I have of my late fathers so I had to stop for the day..... needed booze.... it got me through 3 cars though... he passed away a few months before the Coronet was ready to drive so he never got to see any of them...
And the money shot...
3 cars scraping undercoating with a heat gun and scraper... why did I do that.... New tool.... needle scaler.... exactly 15 minutes and I have half the car done.... sigh... live and learn...
abdywgn
dismantler
How often/long does the compressor run when using the scaler?
Constantly, like media blasting.
mygasser
Well-Known Member
what a good idea, just ordered one to do under my valiant 
thanks, neil.
thanks, neil.
moparmat2000
Well-Known Member
I agree with that "poor"15 statement
Will be welding parts back ON this weekend!!!!!!
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