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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
shocking, more parts being media blasted...
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
reserved for a sexy powder coated steering column bracket pic
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
ah yes, good times
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
more media blastin', now with 100% more red background
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
some day I'll run out of things to media blast and powder coat and will actually have to finish the EV Conversion part
Fun Fact: these took one can of brake cleaner each in order to shoot out and spray out all the media blasting grit out of them that I managed to load 'em up with, but hey it was either that or rust, and let me tell you once they was cleaned up I could spin them spurs with one finger and they would free spin afterwards Last edited by Gregski; 08-05-2022 at 04:19 AM. |
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reserved for... blah blah blah
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so then it was time to yank the new used blue manual steering column apart
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
and here's what it looked like before being media blasted
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you know what they say:
"if it got rust in the past, its gonna git media blast" actually I don't think anybody done say that |
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man I really love how that raw metal steering column looks and am considering just clear coating it, it would give the murder truck some much needed contrast, let me know what a bad idea that is so I know I'm right, ha ha
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with the door remounting coming up next, this made me chuckle
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
I love rebuilding steering columns, said nobody ever!
Go with the clear on the shaft, do a stare and compare and then decide.
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Quote:
"I love rebuilding steering columns", said the hood body filler remover guy! |
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
So inquiring minds want to know, what did you do with the hood? You sort of left us hanging...
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still working on it, still have to remove all the bondo from the other side, (the latest pics are just from last night) then I have a surprise for you all on how we are going to mend that crack ?
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
so with this EV conversion going super smoothly and fast, I decided to also do a slant nose hood conversion, yup, bought this beauty site unseen at night in the rain for only one crisp Benjamin
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
Your level of dedication to that hood is unreal!
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thanks you have no idea, I am about to FIRE myself, so much time spent, wasted, invested? and it still will look like dookie lol
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now I'm sure some of you have heard of the Slant Nose, but this is the SS aka the Super Slant nose, you see it is slanted 2" more [ahem, on one side]
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nothin' me and Cross Eyed Konrad over at Ding Performance couldn't handle
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alright, so this is the general idea
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the BumpStop 3000 TM all weldered up and all bolted up and ready for action
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yes this setup comes with the Shimanator attachment if you order the full kit
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now before I show you the final result let me just share that The Greg went out and bought one of these fancy Vevor $400 let me say that again FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR dent pullers that absolutely positively suck, unless both me and Patrick are doing something completely wrong, I mean these welds just don't hold, fellers I tried this on my cab and now on my hood and we could not get these to stick at all
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so after trying to pull dents with a MIG welder we had to resort to the drill a hole and use a slide hammer to pull, hence the swiss cheese look, nothing we can't fill with a MIG and hours worth of grinding
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