37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

[bluestang67]

Well said, Bobby.

It's slow going for me these days. Just trying to stay afloat. I'm still scraping undercoating off the underside of my fenders. Hope to make some better progress before too long!

In the meantime, I'm keeping up with you guys whether on this thread or the others. I'm sure you're all looking forward to spring! Heck, I am too!!

Slow going here also just can"t Munster up the energy with out sunshine . That vitamin B is needed on these foggy days .

Dave W. These springs are a science that I don"t think any one has down yet . I have 200# on the rear of the 31 and hope they will work with the road .

[randyr]

I know you guys will be shocked but I've actually done something to my car lately and here are some pics to prove it..

After scraping all the undercoating from under the fenders I decided to tackle stripping the paint and repairing a little rust spot. The rusted section was in front of the wheel well on the passenger side rear fender. There is bracing behind the rusted section. After cutting out the bad section, I heavily coated the inside of the bracing with Rust Bullet before welding the patch piece. A thin coat of filler and it should be good as new.

[randyr]

I got one of the front fenders stripped today but I didn't take a pic of it yet. It's not quite as bad as I thought it would be. I wanted to send it all to a media blaster but that's just not in the budget right now. I had a gallon of stripper sitting around so I decided to put it to use! The hard part is getting everything out of the little corners & crevices with this method....any tips?

[IC2]

I got one of the front fenders stripped today but I didn't take a pic of it yet. It's not quite as bad as I thought it would be. I wanted to send it all to a media blaster but that's just not in the budget right now. I had a gallon of stripper sitting around so I decided to put it to use! The hard part is getting everything out of the little corners & crevices with this method....any tips?

Randy - Harbor Freight have several low end media blasters, i.e around $15 bucks or so. They aren't the best, but with some of their media(Starblast) (or even mason's sand for a small area) will clean up most residue and tough to sand paint. I used one when I had to get the Brookville red primer from behind the cowl lip on my car and it worked OK. This area here, both sides:



I then sold the blaster at a swap meet for about what I paid for it

[randyr]

Randy - Harbor Freight have several low end media blasters, i.e around $15 bucks or so. They aren't the best, but with some of their media(Starblast) (or even mason's sand for a small area) will clean up most residue and tough to sand paint. I used one when I had to get the Brookville red primer from behind the cowl lip on my car and it worked OK. This area here, both sides:

I then sold the blaster at a swap meet for about what I paid for it

Hey Dave, I bought a 20gal media blaster a few months ago but quickly realized my compressor isn't big enough to run it. So it's still sitting in my garage looking very shiny & new. Maybe I can find somebody fairly close by with a big compressor who'll let me plug into it for a couple of hours.
It feels good to be moving forward again....even if it's still very slowly!