1972 El Camino Restoration

here we are with how it basically rolled in no engine transmission in it just rolling see with the body on there you know it looked you know pretty clean when it came in it was hard to tell what exactly had been done to it in the past but but it was all there that's the right front fender once it was stripped down showing previous body work that had been done to it they didn't even bother to try to take all the dent out they just filled it in with filler and primered and still the right-hand side that just moved up towards the top the other picture we were seeing this looking at that front part you stripped the paint down with a chemical stripper chemical stripper right soda blast or something blast or what is rock when you do that you have small pieces of well the media you never can get out of all the holes and the crevices and you know it gets into everything between all the inner structure and the outer panels and you can never get all that back out so what happens is when you go to paint it right it flows out of there the right front fender again that's with all the filler and everything off and this is where we had straightened it out and welded up some of the holes and things that were underneath that bondo this is when we went to strip straighten it all out how it should have been done to begin with and that's a patch on the lower rear corner of that right front fender where there was some rust in that area that they had bonded over them we actually cut it that area out and welded a new metal into there we retained the original this part of the fender that wasn't any damage there and just cut out the rusted area and just put a small patch in there like that is that's the left front fender and it was in pretty bad shape and that fender ended up just being replaced because it was there was so much damage to that that it was going to be hard to make it correct well what they did how they used to fix that stuff is they would drill a hole in the sheet metal and screw a slide hammer into that hole they just had a coarse screw in it and then try to pull the dent out then well they they pulled the den out but they didn't ever weld the holes up they just put filler over it and that was actually the front part of the driver's fender which was not that bad it was the back part where it matches up to the door that was in such bad shape there's a picture of the tailgate when we got it stripped down and it had previous work had some filler in it but it was definitely workable and on those areas rather than nowadays rather than drill a hole they use what's a stud gun that welds a stud to the metal panel and then there's a slide hammer that attaches to that stud that pulls the din out and then you just break the stud off and grind the weld spot smooth that is the lower part of the splash shield that comes off of the firewall and that is the driver side and we've we straightened all that out before the before you put the new fender over it the rear window that is the channel that the glass fit in we put a whole new piece in there what happened is they they only reproduce part of this so this inner piece was a new part and then we fabricated a new lower channel but we just put all new metal in it we just took all the because it had too many rust holes in it and it's typical of those cars because there's no place for the water to go it gets stuck around the glass in and sat in that little trough and it would just rust and they had just siliconed all of it in and so once we got it all out and you clean the urethane that they glued the window in with and the silicone that they had tried to repair the leaks with once you expose all that that's what was underneath that is looking down at the corner of the bed this is the wheel well from the bed and it had some rust and corrosion in these little channels right here which we fabricated new pieces and put on there before the new bed panels were put in this is inside on the passenger side at the back wall where there was some rust that came through right that's where the spare and the jack are okay yeah and then that's a corner of the windshield frame where there was corrosion wasn't very much rust it was mainly in the corners and there were some in the upper corners of the windshield frame where moisture had gotten underneath the vinyl top this is the right-hand door stripped down to bare metal it had the typical door dings and all that stuff down the middle of it but no major damage that is looking down on the driver's side to the front corner of the bed and all of these strips those curved that's 9 that's that's an angled piece of metal mm-hmm that this panel lays on and screwed into and those are all new pieces that we fabricated with the curves and all in them that's the area that was so rusted out in those pictures this is the new panel but it only comes to that edge right there it doesn't have the step in it where the glass sits on there so these are the new the new section that we formed and and the problem is you can't just do a square piece because that went that glass has a curve going across it those are all those are small sections that we had to do and then well the in because we had to make the the curve for the glass there's the hood and the hood had been hit in the front and that was really the only damaged area on the hood it's it had some little dings and waves in it but the only place that had been repaired on the hood was in the the nose section of it there's the tailgate then that's after we've gotten that the dents pulled out of it and then that's just a skim coat of filler that we use to fill the small imperfections before it's primed we put it on the on the frame machine just to pull this area out because it was crushed in you can't see it once the car is all together you can't see it it's only exposed when you have the fender and all off but we went ahead and straightened it all out underneath there that's that that's the area where that panel is removed and those pieces along there those are the new pieces we made and then this shows all of this area that was cleaned up and then we put a conversion coating down over all that area so it won't rust anymore and that is underneath the body that may be that area kind of behind the firewall there's that just the chassis as it was when the body was lifted off dirt just just aged just but no damage to the frame at all no rust no no rust and that's looking up at the bottom of the body this is the fuel tank here we put a rust conversion coating that we sprayed on there and then just paint it over it the product called one-step that converts rust to black primer okay and we just sprayed that on there and then we just used a just a spray chassis black paint that we sprayed over that that is the firewall after we had worked it cleaned it up and that is that's either black epoxy primer or that may be the urethane a semi-gloss black like originally it would have been done and that's just a little area of repair on the right bed side on the right rear all of this is epoxy primer um we put the filler over the epoxy primer because filler sticks better to epoxy primer than it does to bare metal and that's where you get the corrosion protection is because you haven't exposed the bare metal you've got epoxy primer over the and then the filler goes over the epoxy primer and you're always going to have some areas that break through but how we do it is once we get the filler work done before we put any paint on we seal the whole thing with epoxy primer that's the radiator core support yeah cleaned up hanging in the paint booth to put epoxy primer that is the driver side pocket where the tail light goes and this is that area that was dented in where the the hinge goes for the tailgate it had been hit there I maybe I look back into something well and what the big thing is is maybe they had the tailgate down and backed into something because remember we could never determine if that tailgate had been changed run remember because the moldings were from a different year so there's a possibility that that tailgate had been changed the motor came all together and just been painted with spray can paint so we put it on the engine stand stripped that spray can paint off then we made the decision let's go ahead and pull the heads to see if it had hardened valve seats in it and determine what had actually been done to it and it was obvious that it was a fresh rebuild the motor had not been run but it did not have hardened seats in the heads so we sent the heads out had hardened seats pulled a couple of the bearing caps to verify what had been done all of the cylinders look good so it was so it was obvious they had they had rebuilt the motor but that it just had never been run that is the front headlight bezels when we were fitting them up and you can see the new left front fender there's the headlight bezel on the right side they did not fit very well from the factory but if we're redoing it we make them fit better than they originally did just what we blocked it all down and what it does is it breaks through to the middle here but you can see where they're still epoxy underneath the filler well then what we do we just go in and spot that in with more epoxy primer over the hilarious we skim coat it with filler so that it's smooth so it's got a smooth surface underneath it even though I was getting a vinyl top the the Bott the filler work was done in the dense and the metal work on that this is just the bedsides is all we're concentrating here and that is build primer that's been shot on all that now the bed this is still the original bed floor that's in here that is we blocks and all that primer and because of all these ridges you can't get a machine in there you have to do it all by hand so goo the stuff you you filled it primed it blocks and it at re primed it reblock sand it probably after this this was the second round of primer once it was done we've probably only had to have two or three little areas that had to be reworked and we just spot priming and this is when the decision was made because the sides started looking so good decided only way we're gonna make the bed floor look good without putting a bed mat in and cover up is just replace the bed floor we cut the whole metal floor out there's the old bed floor big assist so there it is that there's the new new piece spot welded into place it just totally transformed the whole I think transformed the whole thing to have now it looks perfect okay now and this is to the paint part of it right here because now all the primer works been done it's all been blocked sanded the surface is smooth and flat ready to go this is epoxy primer again where we shoot it originally with black epoxy primer because it's easier to see when we sand on it this is actually same epoxy primer it's just red oxide in color and we could have used black we could have used anything the reason we chose rad oxide is because it's just more similar to the color that's going to be shot on the vehicle the cardinal seventy-five resident the color right for the factory it's PPG rights PPG it's it's called DCC it's concept PPG it's like a along the lines of fleet aircraft type it's the top of the line urethane paint and this is a single-stage urethane it's not base coat clear coat like the new cars right once the paint is shot we let it cure for two to three days then we go in and color sand to open up the surface urethane paint takes at least 30 days to dry it's constantly brined for at least 30 days for it becomes fairly hard we go in we open it up usually with eight hundred or thousand grit sandpaper once it's secured for a few days then we go in and hit it with thousand grit sandpaper then 1500 grit sandpaper then 2,000 grit sandpaper and now it's ready to compound the whole car the whole car and then so then we go in and compound it and then once it's compound you clean all the compound off then you go in and glaze it with a foam pad in it and all that does is take the compound swirls out of the paint now the front frame section of it we shot with a better grade paint that is actually shot in single stage urethane and this is after see the the silvers been shot on the bottom of it so Jim went through researched the silvers called argent silver and that's the color that we use on the base and actually it was shot all red and then we taped off and did the argent silver on the bottom and that's what that's what yeah that's how the factory did it as well there's the motor with it painted with transmission man and all the suspension bushings ball joints all tie rod ends all that is all-new the evaporator box has all been redone it's mounted up on the firewall brake booster so at this point this is where it's you know ready to drop the in and transmission in we can kind of see all the suspension parts everything's cleaned and repainted all the bushings all in brackets everything's been redone the harmonic balancer like the revenue per mic balancer on there this is a power brake booster this is that piece of hanging a paint booth earlier that's the right that course apart radiator right beautiful let's talk the way they're from the probably didn't look this good from the factory you

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Length: 16min 52sec (1012 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 31 2018