My 56 pickup build thread
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I painted it in my shop where I did all the work, just cleaned up the best I could and covered the walls in plastic. I got the odd fly and dust particle in the clear but most of them are coming out when wet sanding before polishing..
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Sounds like there is hope for those who want to shoot paint in our shops! I was going to add some stainless strips to my running boards but I was going to use a flat piece about 5/8" wide and 1/8" thick. I like the half round you used too. Did you use double stick tape to mount them?
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No, they come with 1/8 set screws and nuts to attach them. The set screws are spaced 8 inches apart.
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Unfortunately that stainless strip at the end of the boards had a slight bulge in it and when I opened the gate it scraped some paint off to the primer so off came the gate to see why it happened, I discovered that one board wasn't completely set forward. It's now fixed as far as clearance goes but looks like a paint repair is in order in the future.
My glass will be going in the cab tomorrow as long as the glass guy has no problems getting here, we just had a dump of snow today and expect another tomorrow..
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Well the glass professional did make in town as the roads were clear, 3 attempts and I wasn't happy with the way the trim was fitting, we couldn't get the trim to seat properly in the rubber molding, he was going to stop in again on one of his next visits to town. I didn't get much sleep thinking about it and decided to remove the glass again to save time, time equals money..
Well it's back in and fits much better, the secret we found was to take your time and finesse the trim in place. My wife and I spent about an hour getting the rubber and trim in place to where it fit much better and only took about 20 minutes to rope it in place. We should have done it ourselves the first time and not hired a professional.
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The back window only took about 10 minutes, the wife looked at me when we put it in and said to me later .." we could have done that "...and we should have..lol