61 C10 Apache - Part 27: Painted!

61 C10 Apache - Part 27: Painted!

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Ladies and gentlemen come get around come  gather round come gather around today   we're putting some paint on the 61 chevy apache  woo boy I've been waiting a long time for this   lots of videos lots of work leading up to this  I sure hope it looks good because I haven't   done it yet unlike the last couple videos  where I did the intro after I did the video   all right let's go so if you've been looking  forward to this video as long as I've been   looking forward to it I'm proud of you because I  secretly haven't really been looking forward to it   however I sprayed some more raptor bed liner  to the underside of a fender I did the inner   fenders in mouse gray which is the closest thing  to engine gray by Ford and then we're sanding   and putting an extra coat of epoxy primer on the  fenders because I broke through in the sanding and   then I'm going to sand it some more and then  I'm going to have to break through it again   I'm going to add some filler and I'm  going to add a whole bunch of stuff here   however you know have I mentioned how much I  like auto body wishing I had something else   to do with my life I'm not McLoving it let  me tell you not enjoying bodywork reevaluate   your life this is not my thing I'm moving  on I can't stand doing bodywork good luck   not loving it though I hate doing bodywork so  really how bad can it be I mean I've got a little   bit of a taste of doing bodywork and I can spray  some primer and I can lay down some filler I mean   what could possibly go wrong I'll add some  links up above to the different sections   of repair that I've done where I can fit them  and we'll touch on some of the stuff that we do   in this video here so with a little pointers from  my friend Jeff Thiessen at Trendsetter Automotive   I'm going to change the way I'm doing this  hopefully to make it a little bit faster at this   at this point I'm stopping I do want to point out  this I picked up a bucket of this filler I'm not   sponsored but I have been using Evercoat's cheap  cheap cheap filler wow the difference between this   and the cheap stuff I will never buy the cheap  stuff again this is by far a better filler had   I been using this filler eons ago I might have  actually enjoyed bodywork haha I'm going to put   the epoxy back on over top of the filler that  I've done just so we have a sealed epoxy surface   then the next day I'm going to add this  stuff this is like a high build 2k two-part   primer in theory this builds high enough  and then I can sand the thickness of this   to get rid of any imperfections in the bed and the  fenders and eventually the whole rest of the cab   because with this if I sand through and then touch  the epoxy I can stop whereas when I sand through   the epoxy I have to re-epoxy the thing so this is  making a bit more sense it's like blast it epoxy   it fill up the nasty stuff probably could epoxy  it again but definitely put down the 2k high build   slick sand and then I'll probably do epoxy again  just to seal everything in and then spray color   hopefully this will be faster it is  a little bit expensive though but I'm running out of time so since I'm running  out of time I think I'm going to refabricate   the or fabricate the spare tire holder reason  for this is this used to be a long bed step side   and the step side fender that carries  a spare tire is different between the   short bed and the long bed but I'm not interested  in buying a whole another fender for this thing   so and if you have the right size diameter  wheel you can squeeze a spare tire in there   however if I'm going to be laying down some  primer I need to know where the holes go to   mount this thing so that they can be primed  inside there and I need to know where the   holes go I need to know what the bracket  looks like and I need to mount the wheel   so we put it together I ground out all the rivets  there it is looks robust you could probably pull   a house down with it I know it looks big but it  is holding a bigger wheel further out from the   bed laying down the epoxy I love the smell of  epoxy primer it's probably one of my favorites   um two I think two nice gratuitous coats I'll let  that sit for a day and then we're putting down the   slick sand I this is my first time spraying slick  sand I like it but I like it retroactively at the   time this stuff sets up in the gun like it cures  in the gun within 15 minutes at room temperature   and it's warmer than room temperature outside and  I was kind of learning you really need to lay this   thing down quick this gun it was a princess auto  special I think I paid 40 bucks and it has a 2.3   millimeter tip and you need a boogie I think I  even ended up taking out the filter inside the   gun because it was plugging that thing up pretty  quick and then I need to let the slick sand   cure for about three days I have used high build  polyester primers in the past that were not a 2k   primer and you lay it down but you really need to  cure for like a week or two or three months or a   year because you you think it's done shrinking as  it cures and then you sand it and then it shrinks   into the sanding marks underneath so the 2k stuff  should set up pretty good Jeff Thiessen suggests   let it sit for at least three days to shrink as  much as it will and we get to it so since I can't   do nothing I might as well prep the cab for  its coat of primer and slick sand and whatnot one of the nice things about laying down a black  primer is it is kind of its own guide coat to   help you see what's going on notice the front of  the bed here this was the one that way back when   I shortened the bed I hammered this thing all  back into as straight as I could get it and I   actually got it really decently straight and the  slick sand really helped make that thing nice too   this whole bed was just hammered they were  chucking everything underhand overhand sideways   I think they put it under a rock fall I don't  know it was just mushroomed out and everything   and it's still not perfect but the slick  sand really helped smooth this thing out   one of the advantages of using the slick sand is  instead of having a whole bunch of applications of   filler with varying degrees of hardness you're  just putting down one big uniform layer if you   were to try to patch it all together and try  to make it perfect with different applications   of filler you're going to chase it forever and  by the time you're done you might as well just   put a skim coat of filler on it well slick sand  is a skim coat of filler that comes out of a gun   I learned in sanding that um it seems to be  really hard on my body looks like there's there's   sanding muscles that I haven't been using and it  really took its toll on me it was unexpected hi my   name is Greg Wellwood you might remember me from  such episodes as "daddy's spine goes crack crack"   and "I can't feel my legs anymore" I don't know  what it is about working on this 61 chevy pickup   but oh my gosh it is kicking my butt and why  when my butt is really being kicked I like to   use Tylenol extra strength because old man muscle  comes with a price it's called painkillers I'm not   sponsored by Tylenol but Tylenol if you're  listening I wouldn't mind some free samples   back to the show so flat paint hides a multitude  of sins and one of the things you're just going to   discover when you try to paint it glossy  is you'll find all of your mistakes so   when you spray it with whatever primer or  whatever you're going to use I saw a youtube   video a guy was just using a paint stick with  sandpaper and I like this because it stops me   from being really heavy-handed and I have to  use fingertips and lightly gently sand so I sand   in a bunch of different positions diagonally or  whatever and you'll start to find the high spots   you can get rid of the high spots a couple ways  or you could just put down so much paint and   then keep sanding it to fill all of the low spots  with primer if it's a gentle persuader this was my   old smacker but the end broke so I bought another  one which I don't like as much it's not as heavy   but it's probably gentler because it's a bigger  tip came with a brass and aluminum ends which I'm   not likely going to use I want plastic also made  out of a file ground all nice and smooth this is   just a slapper you can get in there and slap this  and try to work it down really kind of gently   this is a really good way to go takes a while if  they're point issues you could use a body hammer   this is just my little smack and hammer that  I ground to fit a place and then I just have   a piece of metal that I ground to a point and I  can just give it a little smack where I need it to   to take down any points that are a bit high I use  that in a couple places usually better to pound   the thing out so just a piece of three-quarter  inch a hammer I do have body hammers none of   them are here I did find the most success with the  slapper and then to see if you got it going right   just get a ruler a piece of flat metal and you  can put it on here and then rock this thing   down and it should go fairly smooth and it kind  of I can feel there's a flat spot right there   duh and I can feel a little  bit of a flat spot here   it duh I've got two high spots so I'm going  to build that up with some 2k slick sand   to give this a lot of fill and then sand it to  try and get this thing so it rocks nice and nice   and smooth so this should be able to just go down  the curve and not feel any flats so that you can   kind of rock this back and forth and if it kind  of rocks into a spot you know you've got a flat   this is a 12 inch ruler I'm pretty sure I have  an 18-inch ruler I've got big problems they sell   big rulers this one's four feet long so I can  rock this all the way along the hood and see if   it moves smoothly it's actually an issue right  here so I may have to slap that down a bit more we'll see what we can do probably should have  done better body finishing before I get into this   but here I am I may have mentioned I don't like  bodywork this doesn't have any primer on it yet   that's not true this doesn't have any filler on it  yet it's all just sheet metal work and it's close   but once it's all glossy you're  going to see all the defects so   defect remover to the rescue this has a couple  nice things talc styrene acetone magnesite   trimethyl propane triac curlate titanium  dioxide crystalline silica silica is not   good for your lungs and mineral spirits none  of which you can find on your grocery shelves   so it's probably not very good for you so we're  going to wear some protective equipment let's go   in anticipation of laying down some slick  sand we got to prep the surface so um and I   kind of bounce all over the place a lot of us have  automotive adhd I can't seem to stay on one task   I think I'm learning that I have about 20  hours of usefulness on a task and then I'm   kind of done with it so if this if the bodywork  on this thing is going to take like 30 hours   I'm already done 10 hours ago and I think what  I need to do is work on smaller projects or   take bigger breaks or something so I can take a  break from it what am I doing you saw me with my   crazy slide hammer which you can still see on the  floor that's just pulling the fender out to try   and match the doors you can see a little bit of  filler on the leading edge of the driver's door   that is from the door stopper puller openator  holder backinator thing that had broken with the   previous owner and the door opened so far kissed  the cowl panel and the fender increased it pretty   dramatically so I'm trying to make that nice on  the back here we've got little pieces of masking   tape to help me find the defects and here you can  see the shiny high spots where my weld seam is   I fabricated the bottom half of these doors  because issues um using vacuum cleaner to try   to suck up the filler but discovered you know  that that just sucked so I stopped using it   and sanding away um I'm learning a little bit  with this is everything that you apply to the body   helps to hide some of your mistakes so a thick  coat of primer helps to fill in some defects the   slick sand will fill in some defects and I'm using  PPG's Dell Fleet paint which is a fairly high   solids paint and it covers a lot of defects quite  nice I built a spray booth you'll probably see   a link above that leads to the video on how to  build a spray booth which is closely related to   my second video of don't build a spray booth  but you can because you too could enjoy the   fume laden world that's cheaper than going into a  grateful dead concert laying down the slick sand   this stuff has like a 30 minute  pot life so you got a boogie   the stuff was curing in the gun within 10  minutes of spraying so you really need to move   I could you gotta you gotta mix the slick sand  with the hardener by weight and my scale could   only weigh half of the gun cup at a time so  it was a interesting thing and every like   every time I go to fill the cup I had to to spray  acetone through it and clean it all out because   oh my gosh this stuff is bizarre however  looking back on it being able to sand   out your defect so well with a flick a slick a  flick there's got to be a tongue twister there a there's lots of it so sand and it actually does  a pretty good job of hiding all your mistakes I'm   really quite pleased with the level of not visible  defects that I have at least I can't see them   also you'll learn just how horrible these  trucks fit when you're trying to piece it   all together like the door doesn't fit the cab  and the cowl corners don't fit the cowl and the   fender doesn't fit anything and the  hood's not that's just aw it goes on   side of the doors I had picked up I think it's a  three foot sounding block it's intended for marine   I forget the name of this but this company does  a lot of sanding block stuff and that helped to   get some of the bizarre shapes of these doors a  little more agreeable I knew where my defects were   hey get off the phone I knew where my defects were  so I laid down more coats of slick sand or thicker   coats or I lingered longer I guess with the slick  sand in the areas where I knew I had defects   I used the French Wheel to form the bottom half  of these doors and I'm not really that good at it   so there was some interesting profiling done on  the skins so I put quite a bit of slick sand on   the door so I could shape it acceptably and  it it hid a lot of my mistakes pretty well   so that's that's kind of nice to see and then  back to the paint stick for smaller areas   on the doors because I was worried about it  looking yucky I did put down some guide coat which   you just mist it on and let it dry and then it it  kind of comes off you can get this as a powder as   well but I do love my aerosols so I like to spray  that and you'll see I put down a little bit of   epoxy I think I went down to metal in a couple  spots or I added some filler I can't remember   then once you think you've kind of had enough  of sanding you're gonna wipe the whole thing   down and wax and grease remover I use paper towel  fold it in half and that gives me four surfaces   of clean paper towel and I wipe it and wipe it and  wipe it and wipe it until the paper towel comes   out clean then I move on to the next area turns  out sanding and this is kind of hard on my body I   wasn't quite expecting that quite as much as it  did hi I'm Greg Wellwood you might remember me   from such episodes as "if it falls on the floor  it stays on the floor" and "my hands won't stop   tingling" I don't know what it is about this 1961  chevy pickup that I'm working on but oh my gosh   it is kicking my butt and when my butt is being  kicked hard enough I want to introduce you to   one of my favorite friends Voltaren Voltaren is  a wonderful sauce that you can put on achy sore   muscles of which I have plenty I'm not sponsored  by Voltaren but Voltaren if you're listening I   wouldn't mind some free samples because old  man muscle comes with a price and that price   is painkillers now back to the show I have heard  that slick sand doesn't always respond well to   paint like an epoxy primer will but you can put  down a sealer instead of like hardcore epoxy you   can put down some sealer which is just epoxy  primer with a portion of reducer put into it   so I sprayed the whole thing in that it's  just another picture of me waving a spray gun   all over everything and mixing up paint so  here is the paint it is pretty darn close to   Ford Mustang "Grabber Orange" and if you are  a professional painter and you're watching   this by all means leave comments down below about  everything that I did wrong because I'm a complete   noob and have no idea what I'm doing wrong until  I'm done and then go wow that that went wrong   turns out the when you're using a spray gun  and in this case I'm using it to build this   high volume low pressure gun I like the gun  but for whatever reason it really seemed to   spray a lot of overspray and on all the videos I  saw of how to set up your spray gun they pretty   much all say set your feed or your line  pressure to whatever the gun recommends   and I set it to 23 psi but apparently my  regulator's pooched and I trusted the regulator   so it it's hopefully thick enough that I can  sand out a whack of defects it's gonna be okay   I don't build these for show honestly I wash my  vehicles once a year whether I need it or not   notice how the color changed this thing does not  photo photograph consistently in some cases it's   very yellow others it's very orange in this case  it looks like pumpkin spice vomit and it's not the   color I was looking for but there we are back to  the retina burning orange I like that so I'm using   an eighth inch 3M tape to mask off the outside  I did put a bit of seam sealer in the fender   corners to make it a bit tidier one  of my pet peeves fatten her up with   a little bit more tape we're going to mask  the whole thing and spray down some white in this case I think I used touch-up gun  yes because I'm doing the part of the door   jam so I did like three coats in the inside  the doors and then I'm spraying the outside   and I probably won't mention in the video that I  was running out of paint so I didn't do the top of   the truck I just did the sides of the cab in the  front and then picked up another quart of white   paint when you weren't looking and then sprayed  the whole top with the Devilbiss gun later on   but masked everything off so you wouldn't even  notice shh don't tell anybody so the first coat   of painting is usually your tack coat just give  it a hint of color and then I like to put two   nice reasonably wet and not runny but  I'm always surprised how runny they are   wet coats on top I always get runs I don't know  if you do you probably don't but I always seem   to get runs a nice way of getting rid of  runs which I might show on a video later on   because I've got lots of time for that put some  filler over top and then sand through the filler who is that handsome man why it's me oh man I'm  good looking so I did the white which you didn't   see because cameras at the back now the camera's  at the front and spraying the black on the inside   again with my little touch-up gun I really  like that touch-up gun so a tack coat and then   on the back side I'm spraying a plate that's  holding the air compressors for the air ride   and then a second coat and then or while the  first wet coat and then a second wet coat   and that should be enough to keep me  and all the people I hang out with quiet hey this entrance is staged to make it look  like I just finished spraying we should talk   about some of the things you're going to want when  you're spraying paint on a vehicle obviously a gun   however safety is going to be kind of important I  strongly recommend some kind of a breathable air   system or a supplied air system this was pricey  but wow it's a whole lot better than a charcoal   mask you want a head sock or a balaclava  not just for late night bank runs but also   for you're going to wear a lot of this paint and  the shampoo isn't going to get all of it out so   get one of these you're going to be happy  for that take your wrist watch off or it's   going to be wearing all the colors that you just  sprayed and it may not come out of that either   you may want to wear bad clothes under these  coveralls I got paint on my socks on my shorts   if I was wearing a shirt under here I'd  probably be getting paint on that too um yeah   clearly I don't have enough airflow in this thing  speaking of which not sure I would do this again   mind you I certainly have no overspray in the shot  to have to deal with that's nice you're gonna go   through a crap ton of this both in cleaning your  guns and everything else pertaining to everything   you do in the shop you're going to go through  a crap ton of this so you might as well invest   in the company get some stock some options but  you're going to empty these here's what you can do you're going to want some hearing protection  you're gonna want some eye protection you get these cool lit no you got a cool  container for mixing your paints probably   want to wait for the solvents to evaporate  so it doesn't completely but I'm a lucky man   you want to buy one of these pressurized sprayers  it kind of slows down how much lacquer thinner   you go through um or at least it makes it more  convenient definitely for spraying your guns down   oh look I'm cleaning my lacquer  thinner container with lacquer thinner   oh my gosh how does he do it with  surgical gloves actually speaking of which   you want to protect your skin so get some  nitrile gloves I can tell within seconds   when the lacquer thinner has started to dissolve  these which is usually within less than a minute   of handling something with lacquer thinner  acetone dissolves these even quicker smells nicer   so I like an idiot bought size extra large which  are actually kind of nice because I can quickly   change the gloves on and off because  I'm going to go through a lot of gloves   just buy a big box of whatever  your favorite on sale gloves are you want to keep a data book of all the stuff  you're spraying I've got one for the primers that   I'm using I've got my lacquer no epoxy primer  we've got the slick sand I've been spraying   a Dellfleet Essential paint on this 61 chevy  pickup I got a Raptor bed liner resins for doing   fiberglass it gets it has all the information  you need to know how to mix it how to use it   what tip sizes what pressures what pot life that's  handy I have three spray guns that I like to use   you don't have to spend a lot of money I've  never sprayed the super expensive guns but   the cheap harbor freight princess auto ones are  pretty good this one is a Devilbiss Finishline   gun I think I paid about 300 bucks for it it  sprays really nice I quite like it it came with   I think a 1.2 a 1.5 and a 1.8 tip  on it which allows you to spray   pretty much everything you're going to be  spraying um I like it it's pretty handy   it's served me well on a lot of the spraying  I've done on the 61 chevy I sprayed Slick Sand   which is thick this is from Princess Auto it  comes with a 2.3 millimeter tip it will spray

a lot of material this was green it looked like  it was green anodized turned out it was just   green lacquer which dissolved the first time  I cleaned this so now it's just bare aluminum   but I think I paid 40 bucks for this on sale  sprays fine spray is thick good for primers   high build primers this one's my favorite  it's just a touch-up gun from princess auto   a couple things make sure the tips are done  up really tight in here because it tends to   lose its spray pattern pretty easily and I just  recently had the cap not fully thread and seal   so when they go on sale I buy one or two and run  until they die but for little bits and touch-up   stuff I like this not a lot of overspray comes  with a 0.8 tip but I did take an older tip and   drill it out to 1.2 I think I just haven't  had the guts to try it yet it'll probably go   through a lot of material so I do like this  one these on sale for about 40 or 50 bucks   you're gonna go through a lot of paper towel for  wiping stuff down this is just a piece of tube and   I thickened it up because this thing would unroll  itself it's just some squishy foam it's nice to be   able to just take off a piece of paper towel and  use it for cleaning whatever it is you need to clean going to want to get yourself a bunch  of paint filters paint strainers you pour   the paint through this into your paint gun  there's a fancy stand that you can use to   hold all of this I'll show you a picture of that  I bought these off Amazon it turns out there's a   little bit small but they do filter and that  works good and I take back my enthusiasm for   masking vehicles this wasn't a whole lot of fun  I've got a bunch of tapes here I find I tend to   use 3M tape the most although I'm always  disappointed at the most inopportune times   you're going to want a bunch of different  thicknesses I use this little eighth inch   eighth inch three quarter one inch inch and a half  and three eighths probably could use a quarter   inch in there as well just different thicknesses  make it around corners a little bit easier   you'll find the tape sticks to everything but  what you want it to it'll stick to your gloves   it'll stick to itself on the roll and you can't  peel it off and then it won't stick to the vehicle   also tuck tape use for your vapor barrier  or yeah vapor barrier and house wrap   this will stick to everything so when things  go wrong and you frantically need to stick   something together this is the stuff to use you  want to use some of that I like this don't like   the smell of it though oh that looks nice  I like looking at my projects in pictures I   don't see the defects when I'm looking at the  pictures that's nice hi I'm Greg Wellwood you   might remember me from such episodes as daddy's  back doesn't bend anymore and everything hurts   I don't know what it is about working on this 61  chevy pickup but oh my gosh it's kicking my butt   and sometimes I need a little bit of help  with ibuprofen this case coming from Advil   I'm not sponsored by Advil or ibuprofen but if  you're listening I wouldn't mind some free samples   because old man muscle comes with a price and  that price is painkillers now back to the show right now when I did the spray booth in  my head because I only have 33 feet across   my shop at the front there in my head I would  the plan was I would build a booth spray the cab   and then push the truck all the way back till  it hit the wall and then shorten the spray booth   which I'm in the process of doing you'll see  the black on the end wall of the spray booth   that was a failed attempt at trying to change  the airflow using landscaping fabric which was   used by Trev on Trev's Blog and it seemed to work  for him but I think I might have chosen the wrong   fabric because this stuff really didn't flow  all that well the furnace filters were good um   but not on the exit side of things  they plugged up pretty quick   I'm gonna use some 2k seam sealer to attach the  bed stake pocket tie-down reinforcements that I   made which would go inside the stake pockets  I'm going to use this to glue it together   a magnet on a stick to place it and we'll attach  it hopefully it cures in the right spot and then   I'll have tie-downs inside the bed which is cool  trick with this when you get them this thing   needs to be removed and the instructions are a  little bit vague on how to do it so you take this   and you smack it hard enough to hit your glue gun  you smack it really hard on the counter and that   pops this plug in into the container and then when  you finish gooping what you want to do you can   take off the swizzle stick and push this plug back  in if you look at the end there's like a round and   square and it matches the round and square that  you see on the container so you don't glue the lid   on the swizzle sticks you can't really save these  I mean you can try and get that all out of there   I'll give you a nickel if you can suck that out  of there but this just throw it away they give you   two in the container I tend to hang on to the ones  I don't use because I'm gonna use it at some point   now back in the bad old days we had nothing to tie  stuff down to or at least small loads and one of   the best things to do is to live in a house on a  corner right where there's a big bump because then   cars and trucks come over they hit the bump on the  turns stuff flies out of the back of the vehicle   you pick it up Christmas is early saves you  money in the long run so but in this case I   really want some tie downs I've put them in my  77 Chevy in this case I just had these big plates   threaded holes this should work to put it all  together I'm hoping and I with the seam sealer 2k   seam sealer hooking this stuff up locking it into  place I should have a good way of tying stuff down   I don't want to use the bolts in the bottom that  hold the like bolt the the bedsides to the floor   because um do you I want to make sure I can carry  a four by eight sheet of whatever and I need the   room that I can all right getting ready to spray  some more epoxy primer on the bed and all of its   related paraphernalia which is a fancy word which  means stuff but you sound smart when you're using   polysyllabic vocabulary um this should have  been just like everything else except um at   probably the least opportune moment like well  here which was followed with a whole bunch of which really just added to my lack of love  for bodywork really if I'm honest you know I   sometimes have these days where things go wrong  like everything you touch falls and everything   tips over and everything falls just out of reach  and something snags and something breaks and you   just want to say screw this and go back inside  the house drink a cup of coffee and watch some   clouds go by that was my summer pretty much  everything that could go wrong went wrong   but I'm making it sound sunshine and lollipops  so that we don't get all irritated and go oh that   guy's such an angry man lamb kind of so we'll look  at the sunshine and the lollipops I'm laying down   some raptor kind of a fun little bed liner black  in this case and I'm just kind of hitting up the   skid strips on the bed which should look really  good with the bed floor whenever I get that in   and I have the bed up on end because it's  really hard to have for for me it's really hard   to get a nice smooth kind of painted underside  of the bed so it feels nice to your hands   if you've ever reached for the the bed rails on  these and you feel this gummy gross underside   it just really needs a good coat of  paint turns out that's hard to do   or at least hard for me to do so I sprayed  the cowl and the steps on the fenders the steps were shortened along with the bed you  can see the nice little fuel filler on the top   of the back fender there because I moved it out  of the cab and you need to wait a few minutes   between your coats to make it all kind  of set up and cure reasonably well   these are there's re-coat  windows which you need to cover oh yeah so while I'm there reconsidering my life  choices um the paint's curing technically you're   watching a video of paint drying and then once  you've reminisced on things you probably should   have done with your life you got to keep going  and that's actually one of my irritants with this   painting is is I can't just stop once you've got  the stuff mixed or you got the stuff spraying   you you have that window of time and you have  to deal with it I don't really enjoy that when   I'm having a bad day I just want to go you know  what screw this and then I can go inside drink a   cup of coffee and watch some clouds go by or do  something else with my life other than bodywork   but I can't because stuff is going and stuff has  to be done and if I'm gonna do two-tone I have   to go back on this so blah so I got the bed on my  little rolling stand again which is pretty handy   move stuff around and same thing as usual  kind of attack coat two good wet coats um   try your best to put the wet the put the paint  down wet enough that it dries glossy but not   so wet that it runs all over the place I have a  little bit of both happening in there nevertheless   I'm going to sand it all out and make it  beautiful because who doesn't want beautiful me apparently so putting the bed together we I  didn't show spraying the tintable Raptor in there   I had it tinted the same color as the body because  then with the bed liner inside the bed I can hide   all manner of defect that's going on in  there which I appreciate immensely the bed   wood is Trex I forget the name of it but  it's been discontinued so it doesn't matter   and you can see the extensions on this one bed  brace at the front because the bed floor has   been raised four inches because of the notch  in the frame on the truck I still want to use   it as a truck you know it's not a show car here  we've got to make it somewhat usable so putting   it all together and then we're going to carry this  thing over with the engine crane set it in place   this is where it's nice to have friends if only I  had some so we got it all back together sitting on   wheels looking pretty good I think I think I like  the color I'm committed I'm not going to change it   initially I chose to spray the cab assembled  so that the paint would lay down the same on   all the panels but honestly you're spraying  a panel at a time even though it's assembled   I think it would be easier for me to deal with  just one panel at a time it's more manageable   rather than doing the whole cab and trying to get  all of that done I can I can put more effort into   doing a better job with a smaller piece rather  than everything but it made sense at the time   reasons so here it is there are some defects I'll  still need to sand out we'll see if we still have   paint but other than that it's a driver not a show  car it's built to my level of skill at this point   and I kind of reached my tolerance for being  able to deal with a project of this magnitude   next time I do a project I'll be coming in  with that skill and then I can add to it but   I'm tired of this I don't really care for  bodywork but I think it looks pretty good I   still have to do the interior do the wiring  finish the cooling system hook up the ac   finish the air ride finish the bed floor  I've got a rear bumper coming gotta put the   front bumper and grill on got to wipe all the  over spray off of the motor because I didn't   mask that particularly well glass has to go in  that's coming up soon windshield is on order   doors have to be reassembled still a ton  of work so we're looking for one more year   hopefully be done by the end of next summer  as it is it's two weeks till school starts   I'm trying to just relax unplug and  not work so hard so that I'm fresh   for the school year but sure as soon we'll get  back to this again so there it is hope you liked   it this is my hobby I'm just inviting you into it  hope you enjoy it if you got questions comments   hate mail whatever leave them down below in the  comment section below ring the bell subscribe   make your own videos and share them with the  world as always thanks for coming out take care

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