And hopefully they have a fat guy with a suit. I make a good Elwood lol.

 

Oh sweet I use to live down there. When is the next car show in town?

 

On highway 9 at 180th in south snohomish is a car cruise every Saturday afternoon at the McDonald's. usually like 2-7pm. Free. Muscles and hot rods mostly. Mine always fits in tho.

Today on my truck I wanna polish the paint. Forgot to yesterday. Women always seem to distract me.

 

sir, i want your truck!

 

Not for sale. Unless you put 5k in my hand and a classy hooker on each arm.

 

I replaced 4 25a fuse in my sub amp

 

finished cleaning all the dust n dirt from the firewall area. going to fab up some carbon fiber delete / block off plates soon as i make demplates before putting the dash back on.

 

Going to clean my engine bay today. Saw an import car mag the other day where the guy made photo copies of $100s and covers the engine bay. I wanna do that haha.

 

there used to be a hummer around here that had a paint scheme like that, $100 bills in the paint.

 

^^^The money on that hummer, was the real deal....

 

Nice job on the hummer. I want total coverage though. Like a vault. Haha.

 

Today I got alot o new truck pics. Ill be updating my main build page here shortly.

 

Yup that's it

 

cleaned my carpet today...got this auto magic from work and it works well....ima have to get more hahaha

 

Today I used some McGuirers paint resto stuff. Takes away oxidation and makes it look great. Then tomorrow ill wax the truck proper. I didn't do the bed yet. But look how shiny 35 year old paint got!

 

Here's a during pic to see the hood diff.

 

Wow...thats pretty amazing for the stock paint!!!

 

Shampoo and wash, meguiar's gold class.

Meguiar's claybar kit. As the truck is still wet with water, use that as the lubricating fluid so you don't have to use that fluid they give you, unless that water dries off, mist the panels and clay until it's smooth to glide that claybar across.

microfiber towel.
meguiar's Ultimate Compound, use a small bit, it goes a far way and compound til that small amount of compound is gone for the section you did (don't do full panels) and do overlapping rows of circles.
flip to dry side of a towel to buff off any residue.
Repeat until you've compounded and removed all oxidized paint. works well on plastics too.

Foam Applicator + Meguiar's Polish
same circular motions with light pressure on the foam applicator, buff the panels with the polish.
Once good to go, buff off with a microfiber towel.

Foam Applicator + Meguiar's line of waxes, you can use Carnuaba which gives the rich, warm color or you can use their synthetic, which will last a little longer but doesn't give as rich of color in your paint. Either or, it's better than nothing.
apply in circular rows again and make sure you've applied thinly (not super thin).
Let it dry, and once it is dry (if you smear a small bit with your finger, it's not dry, but if it "looks" like it came off, it is time to buff it with a microfiber towel, and it should be easy to do, with no force)
Once done, you've left a coat/ layer of wax on your truck to protect the paint.



Wash = remove large particles, dirt, dust, bugs, tar, etc.
Clay = remove things that are embedded in the paint, nuclear fallout, tar, everything and etc.
Compound = higher cut to remove oxidized paint, imperfections, water spots, etc, UC is a super fine micro abrasive that makes any faded paint look like it's brand spanking new. It can remove scratches and swirls, also.
Polish = more fine tuned cut to smooth out that paint, good for fine scratches and swirls and water spots. This is what you do before you wax, always.
Wax = seal all that hard work away for everyone to see. protect from the elements, shampooing and washing your car will be easy, watch that water bead up.


Why do you clay? Get that stuff out of your paint before you compound and/ or polish, because if you skip it, you'll damage your paint even more by keeping that stuff in there.
Because when you wax paint, you seal everything under it. So if it's unclean paint, that wax means nothing but to keep that dirty stuff in, but it's the other way around.

Other uses for Ultimate Compound.
Polishing headlights, what i like to do is do this on other cars, cuts and polishes enough on it's own to shine up some housings.
After I paint and wetsand with 3000grit, I'll dry the panel and Ultimate compound. Instant mirror finish with a little elbow grease.
You can do the same for headlights with 2000>2500>3000 grit then UC.

and that instrument cluster that gets scratched so sensitively, UC that bitch after you remove the dust, it'll be brand new.

 

Cleaned out my glovebox and font some stuff from when my wife and I first started dating. Lol ten years ago!!!!.

 

Good info nam. I'm just doing what I can with the stuff I have in the garage. I got the truck in 2007. I got it from the 2nd owner, who only had it a year. The original owner washed and waxed it regularly. I had to dig out crusty wax cakes from all the gaps and body seams. He also kept wood on the bed floor to protect the paint. But I've ruined that using it like a real truck. 100s of scrap metal loads, gravel, engines, bikes, ect. Anyways yeah it came out great. Ill finish tomorrow and get it better. And repaint the rims the same bronze color. Need new lugs. Mine are flaking the chrome off.