Rethinking My Build Plan
We had a great time visiting with our dear friend from Munich last week. It was actually quite nice to take a break from the Dodge project for a few days and have some down time. While on break I did give some serious thought on how to best move forward with the project. I have been concerned about removing the rust from some of the tighter interior crevices. Sand blasting is clearly the way to go, but I would have to do it outside the shop on my driveway which will create an unacceptable mess. I had several mini sand dunes piled up against the shop when I tired my sand blaster out earlier this year.
My neighbor took his ’38 Chevy to a local powder coating company and had them sand blast it to remove the paint and rust. He was quite pleased with the result and it was quite inexpensive. After talking with the powder coating company I think that I will take the following course of action:
- Complete the installation of the A/C drier on the core support.
- Remove all A/C equipment, radiator, transmission cooler, inner fender panels and core support
- Remove seats and seat tracks
- Remove shift cable, break pedal and gas pedal
- Remove sway bar and cats
- Remove drive shaft
- Remove fuel tank
- Remove dashboard
- Remove engine and transmission
Once everything is removed, use the pneumatic descaler to remove all of the under coating on the bottom of the car.
Load the wagon along with all the sheet metal that has been removed onto the trailer and haul it up to the powder coater and have everything media/sand blasted. While the wagon is out of the shop, expand the paint booth to full size and move the ’39 into the shop.
When the wagon returns, paint all exposed metal with epoxy to prevent further rust. Then repair the floor and smooth the fire wall before begining the body work.
For the rest of this week I will be working on building and installing a network server for my office and updating my computers to Windows 7.
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