Next week the kids go on spring break. I volunteered to take vacation and stay home to "watch them". So my evil plan to get some quality time with my son working on the cuda is right on schedule (insert evil laugh here). Ever the constant thinker, I have been preparing for this. I rounded up a bucket blaster, a gravity feed spot blaster, and a blasting hood from china freight. I also have some heavy duty rubber gloves, a tyvek bunny suit, tarps and my respirator. Need to get 2-3 bags of crushed glass media from the local Benjamin Moore paint dealer.
Sonny and I been slowly working on stripping the remainder of the parts off the firewall. The ole bag n tag of everything as well. Will prob pull the hood and front fenders back off to sand blast the firewall on both sides as well as the cowl sides, rockers, door jambs, inside the roof etc. If the blaster and my sand recovery method with plastic tarps works well, I guess we will get it all stripped next week and into a thin wash coat of 2K epoxy primer.
For now I have been knocking the heavy undercoat and rust scale off everything I can get to. Been using these twisted wire wheel cups. To say these things are brutally badass is an understatement. I wiped out one that I had been using on other stuff, and finished it off scouring surface rust and undercoating. Just bought 2 more from china freight. Word to the wise, use a respirator, and a good set of safety goggles as these things make a bunch of dust you prob dont want to breathe, and little wires shoot off them you probably dont want in your eyes.
I got some action pix. Showed him what to do and stepped back for pix. So far we removed the gas pedal, heater box, steering column, and dash frame. We still have to remove the brake pedal assembly, LH vent box, parking brake handle, and misc parts. Anyhoo without further ado heres pix.
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