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<blockquote data-quote="Black Gold 380R" data-source="post: 16473136" data-attributes="member: 70025"><p>Hello everyone,</p><p></p><p>Well this weekend I had a minor set back. When I went outside to work I had noticed that every where I did work last weekend had cracks in the body filler. I'm not sure if it was hardener to product ratio, if I put too much, but I was well within the recommended thickness or if it was the heat. With it being up to 104 outside my garage gets pretty hot during the week. The funny thing is my firewall does not have any cracks in it and I'm pretty sure I did everything the same. So, I'm baffled.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I fixed everything and the got some other stuff done as well.</p><p></p><p>(Disclaimer: I'm trying to show everything as they happened so those who may be trying this can avoid my mistakes. Not trying to only take pictures of the good stuff. I want to show the good, the bad and the ugly <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />).</p><p></p><p>Here you can see the driver's side and passenger side frame rails had to be sanded back down to bare metal in spots. Also, had to take the transmission tunnels back down.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657588[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1657589[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1657590[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay time to start the process all over again. Some of you may notice the notch in this frame rail from the picture above. I did fill that with fiberglass filler prior to this layer of body filler. [ATTACH=full]1657591[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The frame rails are pretty straight, but the transmission tunnel has some pretty serious wrinkles from the factory stamping process. So, this time I decided to fill the wrinkles with the fiberglass filler since it is stronger. Then I'll lay body filler over it to smooth it out a bit. [ATTACH=full]1657592[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay got everything smoothed back out. I still need to go over some areas with the glazing putty to fill pin holes or minor low spots (That's what those black circles are. Areas I marked with a sharpie that need some attention). It's a lot of work, but as long as I make progress I won't complain too much LOL. [ATTACH=full]1657593[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657594[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Okay, got up to this point on Saturday. The final sanding of the fiberglass filler. I left it rough to give the body filler something to "bite" on to.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657595[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Black Gold 380R, post: 16473136, member: 70025"] Hello everyone, Well this weekend I had a minor set back. When I went outside to work I had noticed that every where I did work last weekend had cracks in the body filler. I'm not sure if it was hardener to product ratio, if I put too much, but I was well within the recommended thickness or if it was the heat. With it being up to 104 outside my garage gets pretty hot during the week. The funny thing is my firewall does not have any cracks in it and I'm pretty sure I did everything the same. So, I'm baffled. Anyway, I fixed everything and the got some other stuff done as well. (Disclaimer: I'm trying to show everything as they happened so those who may be trying this can avoid my mistakes. Not trying to only take pictures of the good stuff. I want to show the good, the bad and the ugly :)). Here you can see the driver's side and passenger side frame rails had to be sanded back down to bare metal in spots. Also, had to take the transmission tunnels back down. [ATTACH=full]1657588[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1657589[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1657590[/ATTACH] Okay time to start the process all over again. Some of you may notice the notch in this frame rail from the picture above. I did fill that with fiberglass filler prior to this layer of body filler. [ATTACH=full]1657591[/ATTACH] The frame rails are pretty straight, but the transmission tunnel has some pretty serious wrinkles from the factory stamping process. So, this time I decided to fill the wrinkles with the fiberglass filler since it is stronger. Then I'll lay body filler over it to smooth it out a bit. [ATTACH=full]1657592[/ATTACH] Okay got everything smoothed back out. I still need to go over some areas with the glazing putty to fill pin holes or minor low spots (That's what those black circles are. Areas I marked with a sharpie that need some attention). It's a lot of work, but as long as I make progress I won't complain too much LOL. [ATTACH=full]1657593[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1657594[/ATTACH] Okay, got up to this point on Saturday. The final sanding of the fiberglass filler. I left it rough to give the body filler something to "bite" on to. [ATTACH=full]1657595[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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