Ollin Magnetic Digiscoping System

Big ol Burban?

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I did my first body work today! Wire wheeled the surface rust off and painted where the fender shims go. They shims are raw steel and had turned orange. You will never see it so no one will know about the runs.

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Rained and cold today, so it’s a good day to work on the interior. Installed the new seat upholstery. I’m pretty sure the assembly line guy was paid by the hog nose clip. The filth of 25 years all hides under the seats, took a few minutes to clean it all.

Turned out well but I need to order armrest covers. They don’t match well with the sun fade. The wrinkles will settle out after a few days. Pretty happy with the Seat shop’s product.


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Today, I put the rear air back together. There is a special kind of hell for GM interior engineers. While this may not look bad it was a painful experience. Overall for dealing with 25 year old plastic I only had one that had to be repaired. Once it drys overnight it will be the last panel installed.

It got completely cleaned out of all the old oil and debris. Then a new pressure switch, orings, and new heater core rubber hose. Out of the gazillion different sized screws, I managed to find where they all went back except 1 lonely screw.

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I said it before. I bet you can paint that thing. mtmuley
Well, I decided today was the day to put the fenders back on. Upon pulling them out of the barn I realized I should probably start the body work portion. To do all that work on the frame and engine and put ugly fender wells back on was silly. So lots of scrubbing and wet sanding to get them ready for paint. I tried to paint one but it got too cold out.

The paint was pretty rough shape, at some point battery acid had splattered and eaten the paint. You can see both spots in the next two photos. IMG_3524.jpegIMG_3523.jpeg

You can see the difference in a prepped area and what it looked like before in the spot I missed. I ended up going over this 4 different times to get it ready for paint.
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Tried to paint, it but the temp dropped so fast I had to move it all inside. I will wait till I can heat up a garage stall in a few days.

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