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Well, I bought the stuff to prep my body with. I got some 80 grit, 180 grit and 400 grit 6" for the DA, then I got 180 grit and 320 grit for the long board. I also got some fillers and glaze. Then I got a gallon of wax and grease remover, some 3M scuff pads to prep with and some mixers and spreaders. All together I had over $300 just into this stuff and I got the good buddy discount.....the money really goes fast. Hell, I have close to $400 into the other things like new door handles, hindge/bushing sets, screws, rivits, misc trim peices, cobra grille, weather stripping, new badging and more stuff I can't rember. I will have more progress pictures today...the heater is running in the garage right now getting ready for it.
And just because, here is a picture of my new solid motor mounts....
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Alright, here is an update.(no pictures, nothing great to show yet)
I am having good progress. I had the glass removed and we proceeded to sand the rest of the car down. We started with the filler on the rear quarters, got started on cutting rust out....basically everything is in a tweener stage. I also got the front suspention taken out so I can get the undercoating scraped out of the wheel wells, so they are ready to paint. I got the radiator out and the front light harness out of the way.
On another note, I removed the K member so I could put a new pan gasket in. I had the K member blasted and painted then reinstalled, painted the oil pan and reinstalled with a new gasket, and cleaned every thing else up. I also put on the new motor mounts.
I is comming along...stay tuned for more updates and pictures.
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Very deec! I will warn you even if you may already know. The hatch is/will be worse than it is. I had mine off last winter and had about the same amount of bubbles and would've ended up having to patch 12 different spots with new metal. Then I got a fiberglass one which is bitter sweet. It won't rust but the hassle and fitment isn't like the steel. I still have the steel one bare and would like to repair it some day. If you can spray some rust proofing inbetween the sheet metal halves of the hatch either through the holes that you're going to patch or the key hols etc..
Looking good. Makes we want to do mine even though it's not rusty but has been painted 4 times cause something lifted when it was painted so now it's too thick and whill eventually chip. But it still looks good.
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Very deec! I will warn you even if you may already know. The hatch is/will be worse than it is. I had mine off last winter and had about the same amount of bubbles and would've ended up having to patch 12 different spots with new metal. Then I got a fiberglass one which is bitter sweet. It won't rust but the hassle and fitment isn't like the steel. I still have the steel one bare and would like to repair it some day. If you can spray some rust proofing inbetween the sheet metal halves of the hatch either through the holes that you're going to patch or the key hols etc..
Looking good. Makes we want to do mine even though it's not rusty but has been painted 4 times cause something lifted when it was painted so now it's too thick and whill eventually chip. But it still looks good.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks
Your right, it was worse than I thought and it would be nice to buy a new one, but it just isn't in the budget. I picked up a hatch a couple years ago that was solid on the outside corners, but rusted in the center. Mine is the opposite so I am going to us the new one for parts to fix my old one. I hope it will work out, and if it doesn't I will fix it up the best we can, paint it and keep any eye out for a clean hatch, but I think I can save it. Good idea on the rust paint...maybe I will use some kind of rust encapsulater paint.
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yes it was ment to be a positive comment... lol i guess i shoulda typed more how about... good luck with the car comming out the way you want it looks like your making great progress and should be awesome when its finished????????
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Been watching this thread and it brings back memories of doing the bodywork on my project. It's the most thankless part of any build. Goes really slow and is hard on the hands, back and patience... seems like it takes forever. However, when it's done, the payoff in doing it right is well worth the effort. Keep up the good work.
Also, where are you storing all the parts that are coming off the car? That was a big problem for me... finding room for all the stuff taken off. And of course, I'm a pack rat and never get rid of anything, so it all starts to pile up in no time.
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Been watching this thread and it brings back memories of doing the bodywork on my project. It's the most thankless part of any build. Goes really slow and is hard on the hands, back and patience... seems like it takes forever. However, when it's done, the payoff in doing it right is well worth the effort. Keep up the good work.
Also, where are you storing all the parts that are coming off the car? That was a big problem for me... finding room for all the stuff taken off. And of course, I'm a pack rat and never get rid of anything, so it all starts to pile up in no time.
Your right, it is slow and doesn't show alot of gain arfter the initial tear down. The thought on how nice it will be weather anyone sees it or not is the driving force. You were actually part of my inspiration on this project, thanks for following my mini resto, I have been watching your weekly.
As far as storing the parts, I have an attic above my garage that is packed full of parts....it is hard to believe the amount of things that come off and how much space they take up....I hope I don't have to take anything else up there.
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Ok, another update....I feel like we made a lot of progress today
Here are the pictures, enjoy....
Put some paint in the fender wells....I have 12 hours into stripping these damn things. I also pulled the K member, painted that, pulled the pan, painted that and put on the motor mounts(it is all dust now...damn)
Started cutting rust and fitting my patch panels. No big suprises here...thank god, everything looks good so far. I will start welding in the new peices as soon as i get some weld thru primer and some rust encaplilator.
My patch panel sitting in place.
The rest of the pictures are just random shots of the body work going on...notice all the glass is out.
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Well, my car is officially rust free now. I have the patch panels fit and started welding them in on the hatch( I cut the rust out of the inside of the hatch too). I have the passenger side 1/4 all welded it, just need to grind the welds down and I have the driver side 1/4 patch made, just need to weld it in.
We also started on straitening out the doors, so by next weekend they will be ready, then all that is left is the engine bay, bumpers, wing and both fenders. We are going to try and have it in primer by early next month, then I will paint the interior black, then we will paint the jambs, under hood and under hatch and start reassembly for the rest of the paint by early april....I can't wait to finish.
Here are the pictures.....
Ignore the black streeks...I was getting some fire The welds aren't as bad as the picture looks either...
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The welds aren't as bad as the picture looks either... 
