51 Ford pickup

[Motown 454]

Sweet!

[Gojeep]

Effort paid off.

[wfo guy]

Thanks, guys.

[wfo guy]

Some dirt, no black bugs.

[Motown 454]

Did you get some cooler weather to paint? Movin on!!

[wfo guy]

Wayne, only 87 today!

[Motown 454]

I just went in the garage to check something, 100 degrees spun right around and closed the door.

[wfo guy]

Wayne, that temp is uncommon for you, isn't it?

[Motown 454]

Yes, about 7 day over 90 this month with dew points in the mid 70's, it has been higher than normal. Usually in mid to upper 80's

[wfo guy]

The hood isn't finished but close. Sanded and buffed. Little things left.

[wfo guy]

Stopping point on the hood until some more buffing compound arrives. I have 1 fender sanded with 600 before I quit. Lots more work to do. I'm sorry there isn't more to say.

[Motown 454]

I remeber when we did my 73 split bumper and my buddy gave me a stack of 600 and a little tine teny weny squege to cut it so he could do the buffing. Thank God I was only 19 my arms were falling off back then. It looks good.

[wfo guy]

Several years ago, I developed a problem. Every time I would take a friday off bad things would happen. So I quit taking fridays off. The last 2 months I've taken many fridays off. Some for car shows, some for work on the 51. Today has been a test. Old times returned. I started out setting up everything ready to put a coat of clear on and be done. For some reason, I forgot to paint the radiator splash shield that was hiding in the corner. I shot white on it and got started on clear. The small parts all looked fine. Both fenders got crap in them. I moved all the small parts to the storage shed and waited for the fenders to dry. I then sanded them and re-shot them. They have some orange peel. I didn't get them as good as I wanted. After they are outside in the sun, I'll make a decision on whether to buff or not.

[wfo guy]

This is the last part of the front end to be done. There were dents in the grille bars that I couldn't get to. I drilled out the spot welds and removed the real bad bar. I spent a fair amount of time with hammer and dolly to get the bar where a skim coat of plastic will fix it. I straightened the headlight holders where the grille bars attach and they're ready for the next step. On the back side of the grille bars, I'm going to weld in tabs in each end to bolt the assembly back together.

[minendrews68]

What do you mean.....! You don't like sanding? I started a thread a while back that started " sanding sux!" I still think that way.

[wfo guy]

^^^^^

[Gojeep]

Grille bars came up nicely.

[wfo guy]

The tabs are welded on the rear of the grille bars. I used the drilled spot weld holes for line-up with clecos. There is a 1/4" and a 3/16" fastener per grille bar end. Back to really boring sanding and bondo work.

[wfo guy]

Grille parts moving along.

[wfo guy]

Next step.