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That isn't duct tape it's flat gray speaker grill's, :D

My first ? is did it always idle at 2200 rpms or is this the problem?

That makes me fell good,I payed 40.00 bucks and I can only be there on sat.:(

Just to clear things up. The times quoted was for the parts I had done @ a shop, the parts I blasted myself {the frame and cab} took about 2 10 hour days for each piece plus about a day of prep for building a plastic room to do it in. I understand where your coming from because of your location. Another option is to use paint striper. You could do one panel at a time, blast the rusty areas with one of the spot blasters and then prime. Anyway you did it its still work and a learning experiece.

When the sand/media hits anything that is kind of soft it tends to bounce off and is very slow process. it will take it off but it's not worth the time. Best is probably to use chemical paint stripper before the blasting process. Then to blast that surface. As for the compressor mine is a 6 hp with a 60 gal tank. you could do it with something smaller but it gets very slow. you will also need a couple of water traps, if water get in your sand it plugs everything up and the process stops. So pope_face you still think you want to do it yourself? Make it easy on yourself and have it done. The welding and the painting is the fun part the basting is not call around and get some prices before you commit. I was stuburn and thought I could do it easier. Well I was wrong Its much easier and I think even cheper in the long run to have it done. You also have to make sure you do it when its dry and that you have a dry place to keep it untill its get primer on it. I would recomend a garage and not a carport because with all of the moister in the air it will still rust under a carport unless its very dry outside.

Having just gone through this process I think I will tell you what I did. First to do was the frame, being cheap and knowing I could do this myself I bought one of the pressure sandblaster from harbor freight. Cost 70.00 then I had to buy the sand which is aluminum oxide. cost about 50.00 for 100lbs. For this I hung plastic in my garage and sealed everything off as best I could. When doing this you have to wear the proper safety gear, I used a full face respirator and coveralls with a hood. It still took a couple of days and a lot of sweat. You then have to get primer and paint on it asap or it will start to rust everywhere you touch it. Wear gloves when handling blasted metal. Next I had all of my doors, fenders, hood, front valance media blasted with plastic media. This is what they use where I work. It took another guy and myself about 3 hours to get this done. This removes the paint but not the rust it is also not near as agressive on the metal and does not remove the original phosphate coating. so before you paint you still need to sand or grind all of the rusted spots. Of course if you have bad rust spots like holes you will need to cut them out and weld in new metal. I paid this guy 60.00 for helping me Then I had to do the cab. Having not learned my lesson from the frame and I wanted to get my moneys worth out of my blaster I bought I decided to blast this myself. I took this to my dads house and did this under his carport. Much better than the garage but still messy to use. If you want to know what this is like go to the beach, and then throw sand all over your body except when you are blasting it has all of the old paint and rust mixed in with it. Good times :mad:. I would not repeat would not do this again. So when it came time to do the bed I found a place called MarionAG it's by Auroura OR. that did sandblasting. I called them up he said it would take a couple of hours @ 90.00 an hour. this is for top and bottom of the bed. I took it to them and had it done and it only took 1 1/2 hours and cost 135.00 I did not have any issues with warpping of the panels. But of course my bed was pretty beat up. So with all of this hindsight and if I had it to do all over I would be a cheap skate and take it to somebody and have it sandblasted. It cost about the same and with none of the work involved. Just my two cents

Here's a updated video of my truck. Thanks for all of the help I have found on this site. I could not have done alot of what I've done without your help.

Thats my truck. I need to make a new video since I have the bed on now. Almost complete. Still need to tweak the brakes and get it to the shop for a lineup. I've only drove it around the block once, I can't wait for the first real trip.

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I'm almost completed with my 521 and I need an air duct. [goes from air cowl into the heater, made of rubber] does not need to be perfect, tears and rips are OK as long as all of the pieces are there I can fix it. I also need 6 of the little clips that hold on the window weatherstriping. [the strips that sandwich the glass] Thanks for your help

Thanks for the compliments guys I've been trying to do very suttle mods to it to make it a little different. here's a pic of what it looked like when I started.

Here's a pic of my 72 I have been working on for 2 years now. I put a L20B with a 5 speed out of 80 720. I still have to complete the bed.