I know that I have done something like this in the past, bit I will try to expand on the earlier article. withhold in mind that this will by know means veil the entire gamut on this topic. First and foremost is that you want to learn as noteworthy as possible before you commence the project.
Now that I have covered the easy stuff, let's dive in head first. Obviously when I say learn as considerable as you can about the car before you begin the project; I mean read the magazines and publications related to the steps of the restoration of a car.
Let me outline a few of my choices as far a reading material on this subject. My popular publication bar none is Hemmings motor news, this publication holds a wealth of information on this subject. Hemmings also covers locating parts, and quite a few other things that you may need.
Next I would say that you should subscribe to publications like Rod & Custom magazine, this magazine will also abet you greatly as you learn about the car your restoring. I know it all sounds like a lot of reading, but the more you know, the better it will turn out in the kill.
Also I would recommend Car Craft magazine, and Hot Rod magazine, these are grand magazines. They will often demonstrate a complete perform on a car, I have read quite a few of those issues. They give a lot of agreeable tips and information that you can expend.
Finally the last stage of the reading, got to a Barnes & Nobel book store, and acquire any books that you can gather that are related to the specific car that you want to restore. This includes the By The Numbers books, and anything you can accept that focuses on your particular car.
That finishes the reading fragment of the process; now we will grasp that you already have the car that you want to restore. We can disappear to the inspection of the car, this begins with the front of the car and works to the rear of the car, or you can work from the rear forward if you rob.
During the inspection we will be looking for things that need to be replaced or repaired. What you will do here is bag a notebook, or a laptop computer. Divide a page in to three sections; at the top your going to sign the sections marvelous, repair, and replace.
In these sections you will be putting the parts that belong in each fragment in the appropriate piece. I would also suggest taking pictures of all of these parts before you grasp them from the car. This will produce your first parts list, you can launch buying the parts for your car.
This will more then likely be a colossal list because you will be covering every section of the car, from the grille, to the tail lights. You don't want to miss anything, it will tiring, you down in the extinguish. After you have finished this; you can proceed on to the slide down stage of the process.
During the lumber down stage of the process, you will procure more parts that need to be replaced, or repaired so sustain your list handy. Remember you can never acquire to many pictures. The pictures will befriend you re-assemble the car when it goes abet together.
At the first of the scoot down process I will whine you one thing, you will need a lot of boxes; you can't have too many of them. As you traipse the car down you will note boxes for the front extinguish something like this steering, suspension, grille, bumper, and the like.
The better that you do this portion the easier the car will go aid together, oh and by the device, you will need a lot of plastic bags of all sizes. You will also need a boat load of labels for those bags, In the bags you will store nuts, bolts, screws, and other minute things that you would otherwise lose.
Don't mediate for one limited that you will remember where every nut, lope, and screw came from. I don't care if you have a memory like an elephant, after the car sits a while, you will forget. I say this from experience, it has happened to me in the past.
Now we depart from tare down to the media blast stage. This is the stage where we fetch the car to a media blasting company. Depending on how distinguished money you have to expend, will determine on the media that you want to spend to blast your car.
I lift soda blasting, as it won't harm the sheet metal on the car, and a sand blaster who is objective learning the ropes can end your classic car for you. This is why I would conception to expend the extra money to soda blast, or acid the car.
Both process are messy for you to super after you earn them attend, you will be blowing sand, or soda out of all of the slight limited cracks for quite a while. With the acid dipping you will secure that in the cracks on the car also, you need to score all of it out.
If you don't and you leave sand, or soda in the car; it will near out in your primer, and in your paint. You know that means terrifying paint; and for the acid, if you leave any of it your primer will peel in the areas that you didn't well-kept it out, all it bewitch is water to desirable the acid out.
The next stage is the major body work, such as rust, frame distress, and great dents. This is the time when the genuine work starts. You will be cutting, pulling, welding, and grinding so acquire ready to catch down an dirty here.
This stage will usually win quite some time, so be ready to utilize the hours getting this lawful. After you have finished the cutting, pulling, welding, and grinding; you can travel on the the accomplish body work. This is the stage where the car starts to really view reliable.
When you first initiate on this stage of the body work your car should have the rough body work completed already. This means that the body work areas of the car should all be mudded, and finished to 40 grit sand paper.
In the do body work stage you will complete the body work. What this means is that you will be adding more body filler where you need it, and the finishing that body work to 80 grit sand paper on the longest hand file board that you can come by.
You need to check the body work areas for smoothness every once in a while. You can do this by putting a cloth on your hand, and running it over your body work state. The reason I say exercise a cloth is simply that you can feel the work better that design.
The next step is to apply some metal glaze to your body work areas, this is a thinner type of filler designed for very little dents and waves. After you have applied the glaze, you cane accomplish it to 180 grit sand paper.
After you have finished the entire car to 180 grit sand paper on a hand board. Your ready for the first stage of primer. If you have a lot of bare spots, I'd suggest that you launch with an etching primer before you fade to urethane primer.
I would always give primer of any kind at least 24 hours to dry. After the primer has dried you can hit it lightly with some 600 grit wet sand paper, then spray the entire car with three coats of high create urethane primer, waiting 15 minutes between coats for flash time.
This is all for this article, I will shroud the sanding of the primer in another article. I hope this has helped some of you.
