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I'm not a body guy, but this worked on the Coronet 500, the vinyl top was removed by the previous owner and I think he rattle can painted the roof. The paint was cracked, and there was rust around the cracked paint. Lucky it was not heavy rust. I sanded the roof to bare metal, and preped it...
The roof of the '69 Coronet 500 had some surface rust. Stripped the roof to bare metal, treated with the acid, went back over it with scotch-brite pad to remove the white powder residue like GrabberGreenDream posted. I even hit it with a coat of etching primer before coating with DP-40 2K...
On my Coronet 500, the roof was a bit rusty and pocked from the vinyl top.
I sanded it down and hit it with etching primer then the 2K epoxy primer.
Then I filled the B-piller seam with body filler, sanded it and another coat of 2k primer.
It has held up fine. I did that over 20-years ago and...
soldering sounds easier?
welding thin metal is a matter of scale.
You would need a really small diameter tungsten electrode about the thickness of the aluminum trim (0.020"?), and a tig that can be set to a pretty low amperage like 15 amps?
Have a California car cover for the Charger and it fits nice, but I did store the car outside one year and the wind would sometimes blow the cover loose. Had the center gromet bungied down to the car, and the paint was rubber pretty good on the lower edge of the rocker panel. The rest of the...
Take some pictures and put them in a photo editor where you can change colors, add stripes and such to try different looks.
I need something like that to help me visualize how the changes will look.
That was my original plan too. The cheap fiberglass scoop needed a bunch of work, reinforced with extra fiberglass at body shop.
Also, the flat hood has a ring welded around the opening for the air filter. The ring sits a bit above the hood line to help keep water out, and it also helps the...
Yes. I think they make a heavy duty fiberglass hood that accepts hinges, but you need to remove the hinge springs (or use light weight springs?)
Here is a photo of my steel hood with the scoop added. I think this scoop is a bit taller than the original style.
The hood is coming back off. I...
On my 1969 Coronet with 440 RPM intake and Holley the air filter to hood is really tight. i think a drop base filter might work, bit the lid will still be pretty close to the top of the carb. I took a regular flat hood off another coronet and cur a hole for the air filter, then bonded a...
I thought you may have had one of those pricey grinders? I have been using the blue, 2% Lanthanated. Seems to be good for DC and AC.
I'm still learning, and need more practice. Went to welding school in 2015, and have had my TIG since 2016.
With the TIG, what are you using for a tungsten sharpener? I bought a 8" grinder dedicated to just the tungsten, with course and fine green silicon carbide grinding wheels.
I have a California Car Cover, Noah for the '71 Charger and it is decent. I had a cable lock through the center eyelets and it rubbed the lower rocker paint when it got windy.
For the Jensen Interceptor, I bought an E-Bay Car cover, not sure what brand, but I think it was a 7-layer car cover...
Sorry, when I read that you had just bought the welder I though that you had never welded before, and were just jumping into this.
I was basing this on what one of my friends did. Bought a car sight unseen off the internet, had never done this type of work before and when he started really did...
I said try a bead on the practice metal. Mainly to get a feel for working the weld pool. Yes, it could cause warpage on the quarter panels. Also, don't pull the gun away after the weld. You want the post flow gas to sheild the weld as it cools.