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1977 Silverado Crew Cab.

Dual tanks. Mismatched. It's stupid but I can't figure out what I want to do with the tanks! In the end I want the burb tank in this truck. Long story short I'll be at least adding burb filler door in the burb location so I'll be repainting the white stripe at some point on at least one side.
 
y5mgisi said:
Dual tanks. Mismatched. It's stupid but I can't figure out what I want to do with the tanks! In the end I want the burb tank in this truck. Long story short I'll be at least adding burb filler door in the burb location so I'll be repainting the white stripe at some point on at least one side.
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Why not get that squared away now, before you commit to painting something you plan to change later? No sense doing it twice... :dunno:
 
A great man said, "if you don't have time to do it right, when the hell are you going to find time to do it again?"


That great man was me........................about 27 seconds ago........
 
The problem is I don't know where the burb tank door is going to end up. The right tank doesn't work right now. Only the left side does. I'm up against the clock on getting the truck painted and able to be parked outside by Halloween at the latest. I'll be getting extra of the white paint. So because I don't know where the burb tank fuel door will end up and don't have time to figure it out until probably next spring, I'll have to wait till then to do it which will mean repainting the white stripe on the pass side of the bed no matter what. And since the left tank is the only one that works(and I might keep it as a transfer tank to the burb tank or maybe even a "fueling station" for the quads) I'll have to keep the driver side one operational until I do the burb tank so it has to wait also.

I know it's not ideal but with my time crunch, it just works out better overall to have to do it twice.
 
The time crunch is for a few reasons. One is that we have an annual Halloween party at my place every year and the star of the show is always the garage. That's just where people are most comfortable congregating I guess. Two is the weather. My garage isn't heated so it would be a bitch to keep it warm enough in there while I have the fans and such pulling outside air through the garage once it gets cold out. Three is that I promised the wife that after Christmas I'll be starting in like a mad man on the kitchen remodel and hard wood floor install. Not to mention that things just get busy and money gets tight through the Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas holidays anyway.

Believe me, I wish I could do the burb tank now! It just doesn't quite work out. If I would have started this project a month earlier, I could have done it. But bit now. It's too late and will have to wait.
 
It's better to split it into two different projects than to tear it down and make it unusable while trying to squeeze too much project in at once and having it end up being down longer than intended and up with a yard ornament for a bit.
 
Yea trying to avoid that also. Too many people get caught up in the "while I'm here" mentality. Which is always the most logical but not always the best overall.
 
y5mgisi said:
Yea trying to avoid that also. Too many people get caught up in the "while I'm here" mentality. Which is always the most logical but not always the best overall.
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Fair enough. If the passenger tank doesn't work, and you're planning to chuck it anyway, why not fill that hole in now? :dunno:
 
Cause that side has to get re painted when I do the burb tank. Save time now for the same amount of work later.
 
A little progress today. Started masking and then ran out of my good tape... I'll get more tomorrow. Then I started hanging plastic and re arranged how I had my doors hanging so I could paint both sides. Still hoping for primer this week but we'll see.











 
Is the body that straight? Or are you going to find all the door dings and low spots later?

I know absolutely nothing about bodywork. Not sure what order that happens in. I just kinda assume you prime-sand- fill-prime-sand.
 
1BEATK5 said:
Is the body that straight? Or are you going to find all the door dings and low spots later?

I know absolutely nothing about bodywork. Not sure what order that happens in. I just kinda assume you prime-sand- fill-prime-sand.
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filler always goes on bare metal...else it won't stick very well....ask me how I know...:whistle: (Ryoken told me)
 
It would be kind of neat to see a straight bare metal squarebody clearcoated....looks good bare...in a weird way
 
I'm using epoxy primer. The body work goes on top of the epoxy. If I wasn't using epoxy, I would do the body work right onto the metal. Somewhere in this thread I posted a video of an epoxy/rage gold torture test. And let's just say, the epoxy stuck to the metal insanely good, and the filler stuck to the epoxy insanely good.

I'm only doing epoxy instead of ryoken green (aka zinc chromate) do it's popularity and how common it is in resto work. I firmly believe that the ryoken green will stick and prevent corrosion just as well, and likely better than the epoxy, but due to the popularity of the epoxy, I just chose to go that direction.
 
it's a common approach these days.... the epoxies have improved greatly over the last decade or so... I run em on the boats...
 
These are the products I'm using. Fast forward to 17:00 unless you want to watch the rest of the testing.

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More masking done today .If all goes to plan, I'll finish masking and finish hanging plastic tomorrow Wednesday I'll get my lights and compressor set up and dialed in, and Thursday spray primer.

 
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