I did mine back in the day and got my new van and parked it!
Strippers , not really feeling it, reason being I've painted quite a few things by now.
When you spend a lot of time and you get too paint and the chemicals react and ruin your paint it's about the worse thing that can happen not too mention expensive !
Sandpaper is your friend! Buy it from napa it will be cheaper than anywhere else!
Use a grinder where you will be filling anyway!
Yeah the body work will get ground out, per sop. Man that's truck abuse right there. Nothing worse than letting them sit. Put some mud tires on it and go boggin' :thumbsup:
Yes the primer he's talking about sands down fairly fast and makes for a good base!
This car was done 2 years ago and is holding up well,
See why I don't like strippers, doing 3 stage paint jobs that stuff can come and haunt you 3 different times!
Watching the paint react on my caprice was not only frustrating but pissed me off knowing I had to redo it!! It was only fun the first time!!
This is going to get the one weekend wonder job once all the body work is done. I get my paint from the local NAPA, so it's all Martin Senour/Sherwin Williams. I've had good luck with their single stage urethanes, so I'll go with that and whatever primers/sealers their system recommends.
Blast it faster and cheaper. And like posters above no chance of chemical reaction.
I know , I know, but around here getting it to a blaster adds 8 levels of pita to the job. Unless you know someone who's got a pot and compressor for sale, and hoses, and hood, and will deliver it, and maybe take a '97 Ram 3500 svc tk in trade. Yeah, probably not happening. :sad:
I'd sand it with my RO 125 hooked to a CT. Use the Granat paper. Both the RO and Granat was ported over from Festools Automotive division.
Back in the day, I'd send the Panteras to Redi Strip. Nice to have the shells come back paint ready.
Tom
Got any tubs left over? I've got a Cleveland needing a home. :thumbsup:
DA and elbow grease is going to be the big suck. There's like, what, 200 bazillion square feet of body panel on this over sized bath tub.
I stripped my Buick down with a DA and various grits depending on paint condition. Took some time but it was down to bare metal with no chance of problems.
Will you'ns stop with the manual labor already. :laughing:
I know, right?! Not even the 1st picture of the kind of stripper we all were hoping for.
To neutralize stripper all you need to do is wash the panel with a special solvent called water.
Dayum, what'll they think of next, right?:laughing:
Well I guess I'd better start writing up the supplies list later, right now time to install some tunes.
