Where to start?
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Where to start?
Well it looks like its time for another question, I have a 71 f100 that was bought to fix up. I started the body work, just sanding all the rust and paint off of the body. This will be a long time project since I want to do so much stuff to it. I have been looking at some stuff from Rod Doors that I want to buy for the truck. My question is this, should I do the inside or outside of the truck first? Or does it matter? Rod doors said you should do the inside before you do any body work but I could not help to wander if they just want my money first. I do see their point about not wanting to damage the new paint job by taking in and out the seats and things. I was just wandering what yall thought, thanks for your time.
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Depends on the quality of the job you want. If you want the truck to look factory, with new paint inside and out , with no paint line breaks showing, then the whole interior needs to come out. Either way, when doing body /paint projects, the sanding /paint overspray goes everywhere, so the inside gets filthy anyway. I removed all of my interior, and found a old ragged bucket seat and bolted it down on 2x6's , bolted them to the seat frame rails, so I could drive it around the yard . Worked well for me, because I painted my whole interior to match my exterior, and did not put my interior stuff back in until AFTER the WHOLE truck was done.
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Is this going to be a frame off, or a daily driver resto? A frame off will involve taking everything down to the metal, so it will all be painted at once anyways. On a DD resto, I would try and get the outside to the point where it needs wetsanding to be painted. THEN do the interior. Get it finished, close the windows when your finish sanding and have it painted. Just my opinion.
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gut it
I have done 2 trucks that required gutting the interior, (wasnt driving them). Take everything out, and prep the int as you do the ext. Have the whole thing painted at one time, and start putting everything back together. you will be happy you did it right. this only works if you can park it, and do it all before hitting the road again.
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