Out of The Paint Booth

Had some time this weekend to do sum painting and body work here is a few pics with the base color and white primer on I still have to shoot the clear on that will be tomarow. I have used 2 gals of poly primer to seal the body after sand blasting and two gals of PPG 2000 Dodge Viper Yellow Base color and I will use 2 gal of PPG clear coat. I have wet sanded the primer used about 5 sheet wet and dry 800. I am wating on parts from the Jeep doc they should be here next week so I can start putting things back together. :v6:beer time

 

nice! how does it feel to stand back and final say aw, " about time" really good im thinking

 

Wow, looks really gud.

Dans gonna really like that color...

 

sweet! thats lookin good!

 

I like YELLOW!

 

Looks awesome, I like the color

 

Boy I love Three day weekends went from Bondo to this in one weekend :v6:

 

Outstanding!
Another '69 soon to be back on the trail!

 

Wow, looks great. Two gallons,thats a lot of paint did you pour it on?R)

 

good lookin' jeep!

 

NAW I ROLLED IT ON LOL just kidding.I shot inside,outside and undernethR)

 

looks good nice choice of color
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that looks awesome! i've been looking for the loudest obnoxious color i can find for my project too and i settled on yellow but then i started thinking orange... you just tipped the scales toward yellow again..

 

This gives me hope, I am working on my Jeep and soon giving it a new coating. Very nice restauration you did

 

Looks great! Did you have to weld any patch panels on the tub? If so, I am just about ready to start welding some patches on mine and might need to pick your brain. Did I mention it looks great?

 

I welded a few in to the floor I did fill the side spare tire mount and tire sunbber bolt holes and there was a bunch of holes in the tub at the top rim and around the windshield where the steel top mounted I welded and filled about 30 holes in all.

 

I have about 30 holes to fill in from the PO as well. Did you shoot your weld into a piece of copper or something? If not, how did you fill he holes? When you welded the panels, how did you weld them in? Did you use 18g panels? After all the welding, did you cover the welds with fiber glass filler or just shoot with primer and then filler later? I'm sure this body repair thing isn't rocket science, but I am trying to find what methods people have had success with and by the looks of it you know what you are doing.
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Well I am A welder by trade. I cut back to good metal trace out what i needed to change. Make the new part to the templet. I use a peace of heavy metal clamped in place or tacked to back up and keep things from moving around. then you start tacking in place. I have a small MIG welder using mixed gas running at 7 to 10 lb the welder turn down to it lowest setting and runing as cold as you can to join the two metals. After that you grind off the excess metal weld with a 4" grinder then I smooth it all down with a pearl max flapper disk on the grinder. Do it right and theres not much fill that has to be done with a little bondo and high fill primer you back to looking like factory in no time. If you need to jump a hole you can allways add metal in at the same time as you weld i use a plain old wire coat hanger a lot of the time thats a little trick. :tea::smash: