53 Chevy rebuild

[BillM]

I agree with Dozer - love the story and I'll be watching as well.

[klink]

I've been working on this, it's just been tedious slow moving work. I scrubbed the frame and wire wheeled it to get it ready for Eastwood encapsulater paint. It really was a slow process. I also moved the shock mounts inboard while getting it ready to paint. I used Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator Plus on the frame then covered that with Eastwoods black epoxy primer. After this process I cleaned up the shop. A good friend allowed me to store my '30 Chevy project in his barn.

The frame was pretty typical of a truck project from someone else... the rear frame section was rattle canned 20 years ago, the section under the cab had never been touched and the front section looked REALLY good. While wire wheeling it paint on the front section started flaking off in alarmingly large chunks.... so at first I thought poor preparation. So I got out a scraper and realized it was a problem with SILICON... a lot of the shiny frame paint just flaked off while scrapping, but some of it was adhered really well. It was when I started to apply the encapsulator that I realized there was an issue... FISH EYES... so I cleaned that area fairly thoroughly. Now it's ready for the final frame color layer. Semi Gloss Black.

I hopefully have a multitude of parts showing up this week so I should be able to create the illusion of progress....

[bob w]

Remember, it is a labor of love. It'll be worth the effort. You are treating that truck right.

[soltz]

Progress is Progress, it all good

[klink]

Originally Posted by bob w

Remember, it is a labor of love. It'll be worth the effort. You are treating that truck right.

Bob, it is a labor of love... I'm also finding out my body doesn't like laying on the concrete and more importantly it doesn't like getting up.... is that the labor you are referring to??? LOL

Originally Posted by soltz

Progress is Progress, it all good

the
"paint prep" progress was good, but I didn't get "lost" in the work... but it had to be done. I was a "bachelor" last week so it was a good way to spend my time...

[lowbudget50]

It is a labor of love that's for sure! Keep it up

[kenny c]

Looks like nice progress.

[Couper]

Very Nice!

[Old Iron]

It's always worth cleaning and painting the frame before assembly.
I might be a bit lazy but, I take mine to the sand blasters for the cleanup.

[lowbudget50]

Originally Posted by Old Iron

It's always worth cleaning and painting the frame before assembly.
I might be a bit lazy but, I take mine to the sand blasters for the cleanup.

Agreed. I have them blasted. No mess in my shop hahahaha