81 F100 flare side custom with 300 six & T18

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Gary Lewis wrote

Woo Hoo!!!!  Paint!!!  

Can't wait to see it.  

Closer 3:30 to 8:00 got the truck taped up, more stuff tucked away, floor swept and primer on the cab!
A little food and trash to the dump and hope primer will be dry enough to sand and throw some paint on it.
I will get a picture or 2 with paint on it.
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

I'll be waiting for the pics, Dave!  After all this time I'll be you are STOKED!

[FuzzFace2]

WE HAVE PAINT


Still a little fogy from over spray.
It was a long day 3:30am start and lights went off at 7pm only stopping for breakfast and run the trash to the dump.

This all almost did not happen. When eating breakfast I heard a loud pop followed by a loud hiss.
Went running out to my garage to find the 3/4" pipe blew out of the air dryer that leads to the air system piping around my garage. It is a compression type fitting so an easy fix but 80 gallons of air @ 180 psi blew a lot of dirt around. Good thing I was still sanding so was not too bad.
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

Yippee!!!!  Can’t wait for the ‘good’ pics.

[FuzzFace2]

Gary Lewis wrote

Yippee!!!!  Can’t wait for the ‘good’ pics.

Next pictures should be with red paint on the cab.
The bed I can do almost at any time because other than the fenders there are no really big flat areas like the doors, roof & hood that can show dirt and how flat the paint smoothed out.

After my cup of tea I will hit the garage to prep for the red paint.
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

You must be right in the middle of it now.  Good luck!  

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 I got out there about 630-7 and right now, stopped for breakfast, I have the outline taping done.
Wife had to move her car to get the tapping machine out of the house garage to give me more room in mine.
Tape it up a little sanding where the over spray of white is, wash it down and should be time to mix some red paint
If it was only that easy
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

Good luck to you!!!!  

[FuzzFace2]

Sorry the pictures are not too good it was hot and I wanted to get out and I am hurting from 2 days of painting.


It has a little dirt on the hood. I had the air hose leaking half way thru the last coat and had to throw the hose outside to fix it and the door opener shook the dirt down.
It is now baking as it must be 90* in there!

Got done just in time as the wind is kicking up and starting to rain.

Tomorrow I will pull the rest of the paper off and see about prepping & maybe painting the bumpers. I did not want to do them before I had a safe place to put them and now I can put them on the truck.

I also need to get another gallon of red paint for the bed, it took the full gallon just on the cab already told the banker I need $200+ for it.
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

Looking good, Dave!!!  Cannot wait until you get it out and we get good shots of it.  

[salans7]

Looks good!

[Rembrant]

FuzzFace2 wrote

Outstanding! Well done Dave. Can't wait to see it outside in the sun with the bed on it! This thing is going to look wicked!

[grumpin]

Nice!

[FuzzFace2]

Thanks guys
The plan tomorrow is to get it outside to free up the bay so I can get paint on the bumpers.

During the week I want to get more paint for the bed this way I have it on hand when I have the time.
When I do start on it, it will have to be quick as the wife's car has to be put out of the house garage so the truck can go in because of no glass.
Dave ----

[kramttocs]

Very nice!

[FuzzFace2]

I am happy I painted the truck yesterday as it was HH&H when I walked out the door at 7am even the little work I did I was soaking wet from sweat
 Pulled the rest of the masking paper & plastic off the truck, installed the rear wheels to get it ready to move out of garage for better pictures.

 Before doing so I wet sanded the front & rear bumpers in prep for paint. Once the truck was moved out I painted & cleared the bumpers using premixed bright silver paint & clear from Duplicolor.
 Did not lay down as I liked but in cleaning the spray gun I found some old red paint flakes came out so that may be why?




The bumpers were still to wet to install when I called it a day because of the heat & humidity, may go out later but being I have to work tomorrow I may just take it easy?

I need to pull out all the duplicate parts I have and pick the best ones, repair& clean as needed before I install them.

Need to pick up some spray bombs to paint behind the grill and maybe the grille & head light door.
Want to get paint stripper to remove the black paint from the wheels then can see what is needed to make them look good to match the body.
 
Also need a rubber gasket kit for the body before I can put the doors back together and some small things from LMC or Dennis Carpenter like door handle gaskets, fuel door bumpers, battery hold down, etc.
Wife is going to kill me when the bills come in.
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

I LOVE IT!!!!  Well done, Dave!  You are going to have that thing together, soon.  

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Gary Lewis wrote

I LOVE IT!!!!  Well done, Dave!  You are going to have that thing together, soon.  

Thanks even the wife said she liked it
I really pushed to get it this far over the weekend and I am happy I did and the way it turned out.
The next step is to get paint on the bed so I need to pick up paint for it so it is on hand.

As for together soon ...... don't think so., but will keep plugging away at it.
I need weather strip kit to put the doors together as I have nothing for the glass, it was all at the bottom of the doors! Need the door handle gaskets too, all nickel & dime stuff but it adds up fast!

I will go thru my parts and get the best ones to fix / clean / paint before they go back on.
I may do this before next weekend as we are to get part of that hurricane and don't think I will have work. I just need to move the truck to the house garage, wife should like that as her car has to go out, so I can lay parts out on the floor.
Dave ----

[Rembrant]

Lookin' great Dave!~

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Rembrant wrote

Lookin' great Dave!~

Thanks
How is yours coming along, going to be putting it together soon?
Dave ----