Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

I got the same pump, they look good. :thumbup:

Wet n miserable here today, fine mizzle non stop , just makes it hard to work out in it, what to do well a knock on the front door a young fella asking if I needed to go out ?? as they needed to lift the cover off the sewer sub main out front, now I have been here for almost 3 decades and have never seen it lifted yet, poor camera look at the cockies down there!!!!, where's the surface spray.

anyway then they wanted to look down the other one in the carport, well I said you can look with your eyes, but it will take me about 2 hours at least to move 9 vehicles, they were gob smacked, they enjoyed looking at the vehicles especially the Series 1 as it's still down to it's bare bones.
After that excitement I still needed something to do, so I fitted the freshly painted headlight buckets back into the rad/supp panel, they look neat, but the flash has reduced the impact of the gloss black paint

it's still mizzling so back into the garage, and working on a minor fuel leak on the carburetor on my 109 bloodbox, anyway cheers Dennis

It has taken me most of the day today to prepare the bulkhead side that had not been painted in DBG, and with my T.A. absent ATM in Qld, it was a struggle to get it out of the garage and moved 50 feet and lifted n secured to the saw horses, but I managed, just as well swmbo doesn't frequent this site LOL otherwise I could be doing it all by myself from here on in

the paint sure does show any imperfections in the panels i.e. buckling etc, I just hope that I haven't missed any areas, as I do have a colour vision problem , anyway I suppose I will just have to wait until tomorrow to check if I have missed any spots, now to clean the gun, hose and me, my hair has stuck together at the front from overspray when doing the footwells, cheers Dennis

After cleaning both spray guns and the paint off my hands and arms ( I still had a small amount of paint left but the Iwata gun wouldn't pick up, so out with the gravity feed gun, and recoat the fuel pump panel and assorted bolts etc that hold it to the B/head, also painted the cover panel for the hand brake lever and up the inside of the bonnet edges)
Last Monday I purchased 40 1/4"dia x 3/4"L bolts, I needed to reduce the length to 5/8", so a quick turning job, so far I have shortened 22 of them

I had to stop and water the wife's Bonsai trees and secure her Bantam's for the night, anyway more fun tomorrow, cheers Dennis

I have spent some time this morning preparing to re-spray the inside of the bulkhead, so a lot of things had to be masked up to stop overspray, I hate that frosted look which is what happens.

that has all the hole to the other side covered, now to complete the job

the paper I'm using I bought back in 2002, when I started to re-paint my S2A "Bloodbox", I don't reckon I will have to replace it (the roll of paper) it must still have 30 meters of paper left on it.
My T.A is back from her holiday in Qld, I asked her opinion on where I had missed spots last time I sprayed, well the look on her face , I had missed quite a few spots up under the parcel trays, so I set about spraying it and asked her to check it again, I still had missed one spot that I had not painted before , anyway all covered in DBG now,

if I have still missed any spots 'so be it' I'm not painting it again, now to clean the gun after lunch, cheers Dennis
ps the blue masking tape is from bunnings, it's good tape as it doesn't bleed into previously painted surfaces and cn be left on for up to 10 days if req,,.

Thanks Dennis , great tips!

Not to lose too much productive time, while waiting for the paint to dry/harden on the bulkhead, I though I might as well make a move and put in the remaining C'sk rivets on the side of the tub, and that didn't take long, so the next plan of action was the alloy panel on the door tops.
Just needed to mark the outline off the original panel on the door top, then transfer the panel onto the door top, clamp n drill a hole, insert 3/16" whit gutter bolt, drill another hole, add a bolt etc etc

that's the LHS done, all holes have had the burrs removed, now to repeat the same on the RHS, then etch prime n paint in DBG, cheers Dennis

With the confined space that we have here for all my toys and other things, I though best plan of action was to fit the bulkhead to the chassis temporarily at least I won't be moving it around all over the place trying to work around it

another item that needed to acted upon was the bonnet, now with b/head mounted sorta! I thought well why not apply a coat of paint to the underside of same, so after mixing enough DBG to cover the bonnet and some other nuts/bolts earmarked to be painted in DBG

and as usual 'Murphy's Law' kicks in, a huge sudden gust of wind, yeah you guessed it a light sprinkle of dust settled on the fresh paint oh well, what can you do .
Today I have had 3 different colours through the spray gun, DBG, Silver & Hi-Gloss Black, painting the heads of some bolts n screws Silver and the opposite end a different colour

I'm sure you get the idea, some bolts go through the B/head and onto items painted Black etc, anyway I have had some fun today, and a little further/closer to the end, cheers Dennis