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9/1/2011- Walnut Creek- Removed roof rack, rails, and clearance lights. Began overall sanding- roof, hood, ds fenders front and rear, ps fenders- front & rear and trunk lid.

9/2/2011- "Photoshopped" Auxiliary heater label.  Before  After  Printed on label stock

9/3/2011- Cleaned rust  and paint from auxiliary heater housings, motor, fan and grille

9/4/2011- Sanded Auxiliary heater parts, primed, top-coated and applied clear coat

9/5/2011- Applied label and assembled unit.

9/7/2011- Bought paint and primed PS front door- used old primer (20 y.o.) will redo

9/8/2011- Bought new primer $$$ Yikes. Spent the entire day cleaning the layers of dust, dirt and rust from the garage and putting away tools.  Nice to have things back in order.  Dis-assembled  DS front door.

9/9/2011- Began Sanding DS Door

9/10/2011- Disassembled spare front fender assemblies and began sanding paint and grinding rust.

9/12/2011- Sanding Spare DS front fender

9/13/2011- Sanding Spare PS front fender

9/14/2011- Cut out inner fender mud shields

9/15/2011- More sanding of spare fenders

9/16/2011- Primed front outer fenders, sanded headlight bezel (1)

9/18/2011- Sanded and primed spare inner fenders. More bolt cleaning.

9/19/2011- Walnut Creek- more sanding on body in preparation for paint.  The dust falls like snow.

9/20/2011- Disassembled DS Front Door-Sanded

9/26/2011- Sanded PS Front door- incredibly difficult to remove the Imron paint from 1982.  That must've been excellent paint back then, just somewhat toxic.

9/27/2011- Walnut Creek- Grinding more old paint into powder (sanding)- rear inner fenders and trunk lid. Pinole-Finally came up with a repair strategy for Passenger Front Door. Cut out first group of repair pieces and mounted.

9/28/2011- Continued metal forming and patch fabrication on PS Front Door.  Brazed all patches to door and did preliminary sanding.  corner   center   corner

9/29/2011- Fabricated last piece for corner of PS Front door and brazed into place.

9/30/2011- Started Bondo work on PS Front Door. Cut out rusted areas on DS Front Door. Cut and fitted patches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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