Project Old Blue, 1965 C10, Rebuild Version 2010

[aggie91]

This past weekend, Korbin had a goal of shooting epoxy primer on his '73 C10 this is in the shop in bare metal. SO, to make that happen, we needed to clean the shop, hang plastic, and get my truck out of the way. Well, I focused on getting my truck moveable...So focused that I did not take a single picture of the a bunch of work that I had done to get it rolling. So here is a picture of it sitting outside the shop in the sunlight for the first time in about a year. to get it to this point, the complete front suspension has been redone, tubular upper and lower arms, new/refurbished steering components, the leaking brake line repaired, and a mock up motor and transmission put in so that I can determine what I want to do for mounts. Getting the engine/trans in the truck was not required to move it, but it helped get stuff off the shop floor that was in the way...

[aggie91]

After getting it outside, we cleaned the shop and hung plastic to keep paint off of our stuff and the floor. On Sunday, we showed back up, pushed my truck outside again, and Korbin finished masking off his truck. His first time behind the gun shooting a cab with epoxy. Might not be the best part to start with, but he did a good job. I coached him through and helped manage the hose and filling his gun. He did everything from taping it off to mixing the primer to cleaning and tacking off the cab to shooting the primer. He did a good job. Used Tamco DTA, that seems like some great stuff. Supper pleased with the product. Got it all shot, cleaned up and pushed my truck back inside and called it a day. Started about 10am and we left around 1:45pm. He plans to return today and shot the Raptor liner on the parts of the cab while the epoxy is in the topcoat time window. The rest will be done later once the finish body work is completed.

[SCOTI]

Lots going on over there!