How to polish a fuel tank mounted on a Semi (In Depth) - Evan's detailing and polishing

what's going on everybody having here with Evans detailing and polishing got a fuel tank sitting right here we did have to sand from here down because it was road rash pretty bad but everybody's been asking for some more in-depth videos we got a lot of old videos that are short quick and sweet if you're looking for those this isn't the video this one's going to be a lot more in-depth this video is going to be how to polish a fuel tank on a truck and these tanks are pretty rough the other side I even wasn't able to color this truck runs every day and it runs hard every day I cut that side twice I did it with orange and brown and then a green and brown and then came back and colored it after we're gonna do the same thing with this side instead of staining the whole tank down going all the way down to eighty grit and spending you know a couple hundred dollars on this fuel tank they're not looking for a show truck polish they're just looking for this thing to get shiny and get back on the road so it's more about the technique in the process that we do on the tank and the actual clarity that comes out of this thing it will be shiny it will look good but I just want to show you guys how to break into this and the proper ways to run your grinder so to start off real quick we have my GA 702 1 6000 rpm grinder I got my full face respirator yes I wear a full-face respirator every time I polish I don't polish without it ever except for in these videos of course but today I will be wearing it so I'll have to take it off put it back on I do see a lot of polishers taking their buffer and buffing this way down and then buffing this way up I'm going to show you a different way to do that so you don't have to cut down and then back up I always remember your buf spins counterclockwise when it's laying on the ground like this it spins counterclockwise so since it's spinning counterclockwise I always want that buff pulling away from me except for when I'm doing the bottom the bottom I'm just gonna shove it in there and just kind of work my way up so that it's working towards me but if it does kick back it will kick back and hit you in the face so be very careful with that 3000 rpm grinders we're gonna get you into a lot less trouble 6000 you can get in trouble pretty quick first thing first I always want to check and make sure that there's no loose wires as you can see this wires hanging down right here if you watch my tank polishing safety video you'll see that we actually tie these up so I'm going to take one second here I'm gonna zip tie these up make sure all the layers are up and out of the way and then we're gonna get started on this thing stay tuned [Music] all right so I'm gonna try to keep myself out of the way here hopefully you guys can still see the grinder action I might actually slide you over a little closer so it's looking straight on I'm gonna try to keep my leg out of the way it's gonna be kind of tough to keep the camera angle just right but just kind of watch the angle I'm gonna start with the buffers straight down and work my way up until I can get work to where I'm at and then I flipped the buffer and start working my way back up here we go [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's alright I think you were able to see that pretty good Oh find don't want to go to edit this I'll bring you back over to the other side so you can watch me you want to do this side I know my leg is gonna get in the way a little bit but if you watched the previous video on posture and proper technique you'll know that you can only really polish about the width of your shoulders maybe a little wider if you're stronger but doing a tank this middle section here this bigger section the reason I use a chair is because I roll and move while I'm doing it so pay attention I'll try to keep my buffer here you'll watch me swiveling on the chair you'll see me rolling on the chair we do a lot of that so I'm gonna bring you into a little closer angle so it's a little more straight on so you can watch the actual grinder movement itself and I will outline along my straps so follow on [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] alright so simple as that you can see we're starting to get some reflection here it's a little hoshi yet cut stages is always a little Hoshi that's why we do color stages after but as you saw i didn't flip the buffer over and cut down now my main reason for not doing that is I feel like it stretches the pores the opposite direction when I walk around truck shows and truck stops I can usually tell the guys that cut down and then finish cutting off because from here down the coloration looks different than from here up polishing is all about reflection of light and the way the light reflects the way it hits you in the eyes is the way your color comes out so if you cut down you've now stretched your pores this way and then when you go to cut back up you've stretched the pores the opposite way now lights gonna reflect differently out of those pores bottom and top I usually almost always see that transition line from where people cut in two different directions I like to keep it all the same direction so as long as you put the buffer under and hold control on it you could flip it up and finish up the right way I shouldn't say right way that's probably not the right thing to say because there is no wrong way to do it if you're making shiny that's it you're good it's shiny but whatever way works for you is good but like I said I don't cut down and then cut back up just because I see the difference in the way it reflects light some people don't see that stuff I on the other hand do and now you'll see when you want to bring in close here you'll see that I stop right here and there's a harsh transition line ties actually working on the other tank on the other side right now but when he comes over to this side he's actually gonna blend all this up up here so you can't see my transition line and then he's gonna eliminate what I'm what I'm doing right now with this harsh transition line he'll come in with some hand polish I'll actually let him do that on film for you so that you can actually see him doing the hand polish and he's just gonna blend it in he goes side to side so he doesn't come down too far into what I've polished because of course once I'm done polishing I don't want to touch it with anything so I just want to cut it collar it and leave it to color so it looks good but this tank here like I said we're gonna cut it twice and then we're gonna color it so I'll bring you along to the next section and when I get to my secondary stage of cutting I'll just film it and let you watch it from front to back I'll just blaze right through it real quick and you'll see how quick it is to do a secondary cut before I go to my color so come back with me one more time [Music] [Applause] all right so here we go we got one full cut on this whole entire tank I'm gonna come through put a secondary cut on it you can use any secondary kind of buff I don't care if it's a yellow buff green buff purple puff or whatever color buff you want to use all I'm doing is getting a little softer so my orange buff is pretty stiff this Green buffs that I'm going to use is very comparable to a yellow buff it's actually a little softer than a yellow buff all I'm trying to do is soften up my hash marks just a little bit so that when I go to color it's gonna be soft enough and ready to color so here we go same brown I was using on the first step I'm gonna use it again on the second step I'm just using a softer fabric to soften up my hash marks so I'm gonna do this in real time I won't stop in between to explain anything I'm just gonna bang right through so you can actually watch it [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] all right so now for those of you that stuck around to the end here to see the coloring process we give you a little nugget I don't color down here below where the sunshine hits same thing is if you saw our drive wheel video I don't call it a back wall it's the same process sunlight doesn't hit down here and this is where all your Road Rash is so if you color across all that Road Rash it's going to turn black so when you notice when I go to color this front section I will start a little higher than I normally do and I'll just work my way up I'll color just one panel color process the exact same as the cut process so I'll color one panel just so I can show you the difference between what it looks like when it's cut and when it's colored and here we go [Music] as simple as that the color process is really quick and easy and grab the camera here and bring it in close so that you can kind of see the difference between the topography so here's cut it's nice it's clear got a good reflection but it's still kind of hazy a little bit of scratch marks and hash marks in it and then this is your color look at the extra clarity crystal clear that's what you want to see that's what you want out of a good color now the stainless straps will come back and hit those with a separate buff in a separate compound for the stainless I'm not just gonna buff across it with the aluminum stuff but look at the difference in clarity here versus here this is just cut and this is cut and colored super clear kind of hazy foggy a little bit with some scratch marks and this is nice and clear alright I'm gonna finish this up and I'll let you get one last look at it after I get finished color in it so give me about five minutes we'll be right back [Music] all right so that was pretty simple I'm just gonna grab the camera bring it in close so you can see what it looks like now that we've got the whole thing color you'll see it's crystal clear really nice clarity and if you stay tuned to the next video I'm gonna have tyloo blend up these top areas where you can't get at theis my main man for that stuff here you're going to show you how to do the Front's of these tanks with these big oil pipes in the way so stay tuned for that but let's finish this video off I'm just gonna show you this to the end so you can see it's nice and crystal clear even the straps are clear and a nice good reflection clarity's nice so there you have it that's it for those of you stuck around to the end I'm gonna give you one last little nugget seven times the cutting is equal to one time of sanding so if you don't want a sand you can cut seven times before the time difference makes a huge difference sanding one time is gonna take you longer than cutting seven times real quick I hope that helps nice little tip for those either stuck around till the end I appreciate you subscribe comment like share to your Facebook Instagram whatever you can do I appreciate each and every one of you thanks for spending the time to watch these videos and see you on the next one deuces [Music]

Channel: Evan Steger

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Length: 24min 15sec (1455 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020