Well today was a short day as Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I had a mission though I wanted to finish the fender well. I did just that today. I still have to blast the fender flares on the inside but mostly everything else is blasted and ready for reapir and then primer. Her are the 2 pics of today's short progress.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Day8 11/25/09
Well today was a short day as Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I had a mission though I wanted to finish the fender well. I did just that today. I still have to blast the fender flares on the inside but mostly everything else is blasted and ready for reapir and then primer. Her are the 2 pics of today's short progress.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Day7 11/21/09
OK I came in this morning to finish off the patch on the fender. I first put some bondo on the fiberglass patch that I placed last night. As I was letting that dry I sand blasted the fender well again or attempted to. Keep in mind I got my sand blaster from Harbor Freight tools. Although the sandblaster works as with everything they sell it is cheap and not just as in price. The sandblaster kept clogging up on me but maybe that was because I reused the sand that was already on the floor. Who knows I just know it was a little frustrating but hey gotta save money some where. So needless to say the sandblasting I was doing didn't get too far yet again. I pulled off the old rubber strip on the inside as it was pretty much dry rotted. This rubber strip was stapled onto the body. I don't know what kind of staple gun they used in the assembly plant but one that goes through metal is pretty impressive. After I got done playing with that I went back to sand on the patch area on the rear of the fender. I got it mostly sanded down to the right contour but it still needs a little more sanding and shaping. Hopefully the sandblaster works for me next time so I can get the fender well done so I can prime this area.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Day 6 11/20/09
Well the Jeep is now inside the shop as the winter months are coming and it will be easier to work on it in there. Today I started by resanding the fender area since it had a little bit of surface rust on the areas I had sanded before from the rain. I then painted on some rust reformer to the rust areas on the fender to stop the rust from coming back in those areas. I have seen a lot of cars where they are primered and the rust is already bubbling through. This is because the rust was just sanded down and not treated. After the reformer turned black and was dry I applied bondo to the hole in the fender flare and up on top of the fender flare where there was some pitting going on. I let that dry and then went back and sanded it down nice and smooth. After I primer it you will not be able to tell there were problems there. Next my son worked on sand blasting a little bit more in the wheel well with the time we had. I cut out the bad part of the bracket that secured the fender flare to the wheel well, to find out that the area behind was in worse shape then I thought. The final step of the night was the big hole in the back of the fender. I cleaned the area as good as possible and dented in the edges to accept the fiberglass patch as good as possible. I put on the fiberglass patch and then we called it a night. Tomorrow I will finish the repair of the back part of the fender with bondo.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Day 5 11/14/09
Today was a day to work on the fender area. I first took off the side marker light beel and then went to work taking off the stickers. After I got the stickers off I noticedd yet another rust hole in the fender flare area. It is small so a little bit of bondo will fix that. I taped off the grill and bumper so when it came time to shoot it with primer it didn't mess those pieces up anymore than they already are. I had to sand the sticker areas pretty good to get all of the sticker residue off of the body for a clean area for paint to adhere. I know I could have went out and got sticker removal stuff but that was another cost that I didn't think was needed when sand paper worked just as well and I had it on hand. Found some other areas with some minor surface rust and some minor pitting on top of the fender flare area. I bought some rust reformer to fix those areas that way the rust doesn't keep going. I will be painting that on in the next step along with hole repair. As you see in the pictures this time my uncle took the camera and got an action shot of me sanding the sticker area.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Day 4 11/12/09
Well I changed it up a little bit. Instead of doing the axle I am doing the right front fender and fende well. I knew that doing the axle and brakes would be more money than I have right now to put towards the Jeep.
I bought a sand blaster from Harbor Freight to sand blast the years of rust off of the Jeep. I used Quickrete medium grade sand to do the sand blasting and it is doing a great job. I started in the wheel well and started blasting the black gunk that was inside. I was suprised to see body color on the panel after blasting the area. I blasted as much as I could with the time I had today. I found a hole where the fender flare bracket used to mount and the bracket was only attached to the fender flare and not the wheel well. The bolts came out easily to my suprise, but now onto the repair of the affected area. Next I will finish sand blasting the wheel well and then move out to the fender after I do the repair on the hole inside the wheel well. There is also a hole on the back part of the front quarter panel that will have to be repaired before I can prime. Here are the pictures of todays progress.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Day 3 11/1/09
Day 3 of work on the project consisted of cleaning out the interior. There was a lot of trash on the inside still even after the previous owner cleaned out a lot. We vacuumed it out and threw away all the other junk that was also there. Looks like the carpet that is down is regular household carpet and it will be replaces down the road.
The next step on the project is the front end. I am going to replace the brake pads,rotors,and brake lines. I will also blast the axle and repaint it and drain the fluid out of the differential and put fresh in with a fresh gasket for the differential cover. Might be a few weeks on this next step as the parts are going to start costing money that is not readily available right now.
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