Well the dustless blaster has underwhelmed me even with the correct Quikrete medium sand. It just doesn't draw much up into the tube. I'm thinking I'll try to gravity feed the hose and see how that works. Most people wish it drew less sand, I'm not getting that and my pressure washer is a 2700psi gas unit so I don't think it's undersized.
Today I took a second crack at what I failed at a week ago with the paint. It didn't start much better, but after the crappy first coat flashed the second went on a jillion times better. It's obvious this stuff isn't meant to be brushed on, but it came out fine on my floor boards.
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IDGAF what it looks like, I'll never see it again. Except for the bit on the rocker, but eventually even that will be covered by some sort of 2 part undercoating. I just need it to keep the rot out. Between coats I scrubbed a bit of the core support with some acetone.
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Looks a lot better without all that Maaco over spray.
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Got the fan zipped back in too. Gonna look a lot better with the grille on, but one thing was very apparent when I started it: apparently adding a PS cooler will run you low on fluid. I can only assume the same for the trans, but I want to flush it anyway so that may have just snuck up the list a few steps. I have a 4 day weekend and Friday I'm driving 4 hours one way to hopefully pick up a new open deck equipment hauler. So Saturday is the next time I can get after this. I was gonna use this weekend to swap the trans out in the dually, but this has dragged on for far too long and I'll end up burning the weekend piddling away at this thing. I need to prime the bottom of the floorboard and the passenger side of the cab where I did the driver's side. Gotta let all that cure and get both inner and outer fenders back on. Gotta finish blasting them front of the frame, make sure it's all welded back up in any spots I missed, paint it, and get the plow frame bolted in nice and tight. Then I can finally get to the piddly stuff like adding and torquing all the missing fasteners in the bumper with this body lift, installing the trailer brake controller, and make a junkyard run for a bunch of crap.