BUILD THREAD 81 Buick/Olds Turbo Wagon 02/15/2024 More Parts!

[liquidh8]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Propane torch and a stiff paint scraper. Eastwood also sells a spray bomb solvent to help with this task, but I have not yet tried the stuff. Managed to clean up the bottom of a truck bed in about 2 hours without setting anything on fire. Messy, though.

That is exactly what I do, propane torch and paint scraper, then some stiff wire wheel, fiber stripper wheels, and my sandblaster to get the rust. The floors are in good shape under there. 😀

 

[liquidh8]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

I received my aluminum radiator support in the mail today, I'll blast the paint off and fix a few spot welds, and I will be good to go.

I haven't gotten a whole lot done on the wagon. I had to get my oldest daughter a car, a 2003 Monte SS High Sport. It is competition yellow with black leather, moon roof, all the extras. New trans, radiator, water pump, KYB struts, Eibach springs, has a rotted 3" exhaust with blowfasters. I put a 2.5 inch exhaust from an Impala SS with some Dynomax mufflers on it.

I may be able to get back on the wagon and continue stripping and blasting the bottom side floor pans next week.

 

[liquidh8]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Big thanks to 06 dodge cr for the ac box and hollow front sway bar. They showed up in the mail today.

 

[liquidh8]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Small update. I got the floors sandblasted/stripped, epoxy primed and seam sealed. Then finally a few coats of bedliner.

 

[L.A.X-RATED]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

niCE and THOROUGH job!!!! :shock: cant wait to put my aerocoupe on a rotisserie!!! these past 2 frame off's have resulted in por-15 'freckles" that last for a month or more looking forward to the next installment/faze!!!

 

[Longroof79]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Looks great, Jim.
The rotisserie is the way to go. You can't compare doing a body- off to a body-on job. Again, I would have liked to have done a body-off, but space was a big factor...and age is the other... :?

 

[Blake442]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Looks awesome!

Are you going to paint the body on the rotisserie or are you going to put it back on the frame first?

 

[the ghoul]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Lookin good bubba!

 

[liquidh8]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Been a couple months. I have been at Keesler AFB in Biloxi for upgrade training.

Looks great, Jim.
The rotisserie is the way to go. You can't compare doing a body-off to a body-on job. Again, I would have liked to have done a body-off, but space was a big factor...and age is the other... :?

Jack, I love this tool. I don't know how I have done other frame offs without it!

Looks awesome!

Are you going to paint the body on the rotisserie or are you going to put it back on the frame first?

Blake, I am going to do it on the frame. I have to haul the car to a friends so we can finish up the body work and get it in paint. He has a paint booth. 😀

SO, I have been home for a week, and I had some help getting this project in high gear. My cousin and nephew came over and helped get the firewall stripped, blasted of rust spots, the roof stripped, a body mount pedestal repaired, the drive shaft loop fabricated, and the AC box removed.

I have the firewall in epoxy as I type, tomorrow I will re-seam seal it, and do a little smoothing on it. Trying to get it in color on Tuesday. The roof, well lets just say I am glad I stripped it down. I has a few dents, and there are 1000 little rust spots all over it. Soooo, I have some Evaporust, and 3 rolls of paper towels. I soaked the paper towels, covered the entire roof with two layers, then cover that in plastic. I hope it woks. That stuff worked GREAT on my smaller parts that were submerged in it.

 

[Longroof79]

Re: 81 Century/GN Wagon Update 7/7/14 Chassis assembly!!!

Hey Jim,
Good to see you back. I was kinda wondering what happened to you. It's good to see you catching up on progress.
Glad you have a few helpers to get a few things done. :wink:
Your friend having a paint booth will be a tremendous help.