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Old 02-21-2008, 01:36 PM
JasonD JasonD is offline
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Originally Posted by Thunderkiss65
Nice work. But why didnt you repair the severe pitting in the frame before you painted it.
After we sandblasted the frame we did go over the bottom and sides of the frame with a skim coat of filler to eliminate the pitting. We left the top of the frame alone since that is impossible to see with the body on the frame.

We also did a skim coat on the control arms. Those sure aren't very fun to get smooth.

Here is a pic of the frame just before I painted it. You can see the skim coat of filler down the sides and the bottom where we filled in some of the rust pitting:

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Last edited by JasonD; 02-21-2008 at 01:42 PM.