It's been a while

I've been rather busy with a few other projects and home repairs (drill bits and electrical wires don't go together). I did work on painting a few parts this past winter, but I haven't made as much progress as I should have.

I did work on the truck today and was able to get the driver side door put back together. It has been painted gray and has a speaker mounted in it now. I will need to wire the speaker in still before it is totally finished.

Hopefully I will be able to have some more free time to work on this project some more in the next few months. It looks like I will have a lot of repair work to do still.

Plastic screws? That's pretty cheap GM...

I started working on the truck project two days ago. I cleaned out the garage, got some other projects done around the house, and finished my business travels for a while. Now I can focus on getting this project progressing further along.

I removed the plastic cover in between the hood and the windshield yesterday. It took 5 times as long as it should have because Chevy used cheap plastic screws that stripped out right away. I'll have to replace those with some stainless steel ones. Tonight I will be painting it black and restoring it to the way it used to be.

Taking some time off

I have been gone for work most of the summer and will be back to work on this project again in late August/early September.

Hole is covered

I put some Bondo over the hole now that the aluminum backing panels have been epoxied in place. It turned out ok, I will need to sand and apply some more Bondo to smooth it out. I'll put some primer on it after it looks good.

It's going to be a while before I can work on this again since I am going to be busy for the next two months.

A little progress

I've been meaning to update this for the past few days. I've made some progress in my rust hole patching. I've epoxied a few pieces of aluminum in place to apply Bondo to. It doesn't look pretty now, but hopefully it will once the Bondo is on and sanded into the right shape. I'll attach some pictures later.

I also painted the windshield wiper arms black. That is the color they should be.

Rust holes take a while to patch

I spent about 8 hours working on repairs today. I made some progress, but wish I had another 3 days to get more stuff done. I finished removing the pin striping and rust proofed the inside of the bottom door frame area. I also cut out the pieces of metal I will epoxy in and cover with Bondo tomorrow. It looks like I will have to wait to paint until Tuesday or Wednesday if things go as planned tomorrow.

How can someone let their truck get so dirty?

I spent 4 hours today cleaning out the interior of the truck. I made some progress, but I may be half done. I still have some more cleaning to do and then will start rust proofing the inside metal under the rubber floor mat and changing the color of the interior plastic pieces to black. I will also have to buy some aluminum trim pieces from Lowe's to replace the broken plastic piece on the floor. It should last a lot longer and not rust either. That may be a project for next weekend however.

I bought a lot of paint and repair materials today. I plan to turn my garage into a body shop tomorrow and get a lot of work done.