LS10 finally getting some paint
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Nice job on the paint,WOW I always wanted to learn to paint,I have the gun and everything just never got to it. The wrap is a somewhat new thing, well maybe not but Your truck looks great. Are you doing the wrap or is someone doing it for you?
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My Nephew is the painter, I have a friend that does body work. Both guy' s are not for hire, but trade out labor. I'm the grunt guy for removing/hanging doors, fenders and the hood.
I build 4L60E's during my retirement to pay for all this. I get one hot rod build for myself to play with, so I'm doing it how I want withe their guidance.
I pay for parts, My nephew is painting it.
1) because I built him a couple of transmission and he owes me a little.
2) It was his old truck that he sold me for $1000 back in 2016.
My friend that does body work I hired for the rockers & cab corners. then over the years has needed 3 transmission built for himself, we traded some labor for stripping and primering...
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Quick update, my nephew couldn't take it. He watched 2 you tube videos on the S10 hood alignment.
1) someone used a ratchet strap to pull the core support the direction it needed. He did not like that option!!!
2) the other guy said to never tighten the S10 bolts until you have everything on it.
So he went out and spent 10 minutes and loosened every bolt in the fenders and the fender liner stays. We already loosened the core support, trying to get the proper alignment. This allowed for the frame/core support to align itself... He got help from his wife and put the hood on and wallah!!!
Everything is in alignment now so he tightened all the fender bolts.
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1) someone used a ratchet strap to pull the core support the direction it needed. He did not like that option!!!
2) the other guy said to never tighten the S10 bolts until you have everything on it.
So he went out and spent 10 minutes and loosened every bolt in the fenders and the fender liner stays. We already loosened the core support, trying to get the proper alignment. This allowed for the frame/core support to align itself... He got help from his wife and put the hood on and wallah!!!
Everything is in alignment now so he tightened all the fender bolts.
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Thank You!!!
This was all done in my nephews 2 car garage. He got some damaged 32"x34"x3" furnace filters from a friend for free. His friend has bad allergies and he has a HD Hepa filter set up at home. We made a full door filter and used a 4ft fan he has to push air into the garage. Then to exhaust the fumes, we used his squirrel cage blower. That was rigged with a cardboard duct from the opposite back corner to under the garage door. To block the opening left in the garage door we used a row of 12"x18"x4" patio block. The exhaust fumes went through a stack of 2 16"x25"x1" regular furnace filters.
We were locked in the garage with a mask. His wife said that very little fog came out of the exhaust. I watched the air flow while he painted and I was surprised at how little paint fog there was. You could see the paint fog flow to the squirrel cage exhaust fan. The exhaust filters were very black with a glossy kind of coating from the clear coat...
He didn't even bother to cover his stereo and TV that's in his garage. He was very happy how well his make shift paint booth worked.
The only issue was a little less than adequate lighting. I'm going to pick up a dozen 5000K LED shop lights and install them for him this coming spring/summer.
Of course there was 2 bugs that got in some how and got into the passenger fender, He said he wants to do a total re-coat of that fender. I said don't worry about it...
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Yes it was, but as the old GIJoe cartoon used to say. Knowing is half the battle! So when you don't know what should be done, you don't actually get anywhere. We spent 2.5 hours trying different things for what was really 20 minutes of work.
Thanks for your time...
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I just watched an episode of Bitchin' Rides where they're working on a 64 Caddilac. The went to reinstall the hood and it was way out of whack. They tried a bunch of different things, then they put the inner fenders in and if fit like a charm. The hood is a city block long, and all of the stress was being borne by the fenders bringing them inboard.
Not that that was your problem, just pointing out sometimes the simplest things cause a headache.
Not that that was your problem, just pointing out sometimes the simplest things cause a headache.
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You got that right!!! My nephew really needed it to go home yesterday. His phone has been blowing up with paying jobs.. This has taken too much time, but he was supposed to start early September. Instead he got started in late October. I wanted some drive time before cold weather. That's not gonna happen now, but life doesn't always go exactly as planned. So now the bed/grill & bumper won't get painted until spring.
I have a medium grey multi color metallic Toyota paint code 1H1. I am going to use that for the front bumper & grill. Now I am having second thoughts about painting the bumper grey metallic. It will set the truck apart from any other truck out there, but it may be a little to much. So if it turns out that way, it's real easy to recoat to the black...
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This will give you time to get some Dyna Mat on the inside.
Thank you for your comment, been really working hard getting this old beast back in shape. Hank
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^^^^^^^WOW very nice, you did a great job. Skills brother skills.....
Thank you for your comment, have a happy Thanksgiving. Please enjoy today's foto. HANK
An observation and something to ponder. There are several compliments on this thread, and while not specific, might (or, maybe not) actually be in response to the original posting about the truck painting project, rather than yours, which is a vinyl wrap project. Albeit a nice job, and extensively documented, perhaps just referencing or linking your thread on the wrap would be more efficient, rather than permeating others' threads with repetitive photos of yours.
FWIW, I'd go for the 1H1 paint for the bumpers. It ought to make a nice contrast to the great paint job on the body. And the nice feature is that if you aren't pleased with the outcome, it's pretty easy (and relatively inexpensive) to reshoot them to match the body (or maybe a nice glow in the dark hot pink!
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do you know what kind of paint, primer, clear was used?
looks nice
looks nice
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