Day 9 of the Palomino overhaul

today I had a couple f hours to work on the pup so I put a third coat of grizzly grip on roof. Then a couple of hours later I stared tackling the frame.

The frame had obviously not been repainted or taken care of since it was built in the 90's. Here you can see:

So the first thing I did was get a polishing/ stripping wheel and use the drill to take all the rust and little paint that remains off.

You can see after 10 seconds it was stripping all the way down to the metal.so after about 30 minutes of grinding I got all the rust off. Then I shop vacuumed it and then I took a rag soaked in acetone and wiped it down. Then I took the black rust-oleum and gave it three good coats!

In between coats I took some putty tape and sealed and placed the wheel wells, vents, door and all other accessory parts that had been grizzly gripped to match the roof and got them back on the body. My sone had my phone by then playing a game so I'll post pics of that later. 

Day 8 of the overhaul!

Well today the weather was great so we got some butcher paper and covered the bottom of the pup so we could roll on the grizzly grip (truck bed liner).

As I've mentioned before we live in Texas and are Texas A&M fans so we are breaking from tradition and not painting the pup white! The body has already been painted maroon as you can see in previous posts. So we are painting the roof "battle ship grey"!

A couple of days ago I filled in all the screw holes with a wood filler putty I had poured wood hardener/ "rot" stopper because some of the screws were a little rusty a couple of days earlier. Even though the wood all seemed to be good better safe than sorry.

Today after getting the body covered we cleaned the roof with a 220 sandpaper and then washed it with soap and water and a sponge and then once dry wiped it down with acetone and a clean rag. Well I say we, my youngest started out helping me then found the caulk gun and an empty tube of liquid nails and had to go conquer some imaginary world.

You can see in the photo above the cleaned and ready roof. Then it was time to get the grizzly grip going so I mixed the accelerator in and stired it up.

This drill paint stirir is a must with grizzly grip because it is thicker than paint and you want to make sure the texture is completely stired into the paint. It then rolled on realy quick and effortlessly!

You can see the first coat still wet above! From there I let it dry for three hours. Two would have been enough as this cures faster with high humidity and in the Houston area even on a dry pretty day we were at 74% humidity. Then I apllied a second coat. I the used a brush and dabbed the grills and wheel wells and outlet inlet so they would match the roof.

Day seven of the Palomino overhaul

Well it has been two solid weeks since I have been able to post. I haven't had much time to do any real work because the weather has been horrible. It took the pup a good week for the body paint job to fully cure. Humidity and temperature issues slowed down the process. The endas of the roof took at least that long as well. After replacing the wood with PVC boards I glued the shell back down with liquid nails and put about 100 clamps on it and let it cure for about three days on each end. The. I got the metal trim pieces back on.

The grizzly grip finally came in last week but we haven't had a day in the 60s since which is what they say is lowest temperature to apply in. But Saturday we are supposed to hit 64 degrees so today I got out and began removing all trim and AC prepping roof so I can paint it and accessories for sides. (Wheel wells, vent covers etc...)