Holy Crapoly!!! That thing is looking spectacular!!!! Well done Sir, Well done!!

 

Lookin great! I love the bumper. I'm going to copy you're idea with the bedliner on the step bumper! hope you don't mind

 

I don't mind at all. maybe you will be better at spraying that snotty substance, lol!

product is SEM pro-tex

It has a short working time. I practiced on the tailgate and bumper before I tackled the bed, maybe I should have practiced on the bed first, lol.

then texture on the bed looks nicer than the texture on the bumper and tailgate.

That pretty much wraps up the bed, now I have to get the cab and doors done.

 

It's an SEM product called "Pro-Tex"

ours is black, it's a simple 2:1 mix and I applied it with a standard schutz gun although they recommend their gun or a schutz with a 1/2" pickup tube.

You can do it with a standard schutz if you keep moving , empty the bottle every time and I actually flushed after every bottle was empty to prevent clogging of the pickup tube and skinning inside the bottle. Don't mix up more than a qt (mixed) at a time.

I found that around 22 oz of the base then 11 oz of the catalyst was about perfect. it's a gross of 33 oz mixed but it doesn't pour out clean from the mixing cup because it's so damn heavy. standard schutz bottle will hold a qt.

Get the bed prepped, ours was primed already, had been previously taken to bare metal. we scuffed it, vacuumed, blew it out, wiped with wax & grease remover and masked it.

It's a messy job, glad I had rubber gloves on.
While I was spraying in the booth, my boy was pre measuring the base in 22 oz amounts into 2 qt mixing buckets. that made it faster for me when I came out of the booth to dump in the catalyst, stir it for about a minute & a half, dump it in my bottle and get back in the booth.

I sprayed the front panel first with one coat (which shouldn't quite cover completely) then the sides, then went back over the front and sides. Then started working my way out of the box by coating the floor.

I had a step stool with an old towel on top to wipe my feet on every time before I climbed back up into the box.


We peeled tape while the product was still wet, gleaned the gun out and called it a night.

 

Things are looking good this morning. I'm glad that I used toothpicks to prop up these D rings last night, otherwise they would have been glued pretty firmly in place because this stuff hardened up really nice.



Here's where we did the tape line up top.



I'm pretty happy with it, I see why these aren't cheap. They are kind of a pain in the butt.

 

Well, I pulled the hood off today, did some body work on the cab and tore the dash down a enough to paint it. I figure I have to do door jams and kick panel areas I might as well spray all the metal in the cab.

 

Hi guys.

We have been working on the truck, racing for the finish line.









Blocking tomorrow, maybe some color.

 

Really looking good! I have to laugh at myself. What you and your son have done in such a short time took me 2 years to do. That will be one nice looking truck when done.

 

Thank you, this is a full time job for me (running a classic auto resto shop) so this one should actually be moving along faster than it is, lol.

I guess I'm getting old.

 

is there a reason the cab was torn so far down but you left the rear window in? im not saying your doing it wrong or anything just curious. lovin the build by the way

 

It was going to be a simple doors on, glass in repaint.

The windshield was cracked, I ordered a new one, I guess we looked over the rear slider and gasket, it all looked good.... I still wish I pulled it but I've gotten too carried away already

Lol

 

Looking so nice that you won't want to drive it in our salt up here

 

Get some eye pro on that boy. And ear pro for grindingas well.

 

 

Gorgeous black. No orange peellooks really really good.