Google, how do you say “about damn time” in Japanese? … Yaku jikan
Seems like it’s been forever since I began working on the rear third of the car. And when I did, it took nearly two months to scrape all the old tar undercoating off and wire wheel it down to bare metal. I gave it a coat of epoxy primer around December 2017 just to keep it from rusting over the winter, but it was a rush job as I had to get it coated during one of the last above freezing days we had that month. Due to this, the finish wasn’t that great and I decided to sand the underside before I re-applied another coat of epoxy primer.
But before I could do that, I needed to take care of a couple spots that I’d just never gotten around too. Like the corners of the rear valence.
Which were simple enough…
Now I could coat the underside in epoxy primer and seam seal all the seams.
With that out of the way, I waited a couple days for it to cure before I took a Scotch Brite pad to it and mixed up some Herculiner.
Two days and two coats later, the entire underside of my Datsun was officially coated. Granted there was a massive amount of work left to do on the car, but this was a milestone.
And I was pretty damn exited to move on to installing the rear suspension and other parts too.
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Great job Jason!
A lot of patience… A ton of skills and a pretty good eye to recreate the original sheet metal.
I will get my own can of worm open this winter (‘73 that “looks” in descent shape other than both floors and 1 frame rail) and sadly I know the finish result will be far from what you did!
👍👍
Thanks man, I really appreciate that. And I’m sure your restoration will be just fine. I’ve done a lot of mechanical work over the years, and had a pretty good background in fabrication welding, but never sheet metal. So I learned as I went. As you will too. Just be patient and it’ll work out.