{"id":1024,"date":"2014-01-04T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2022-09-03T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T23:06:09","slug":"last-push-for-the-body-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/last-push-for-the-body-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Push for the Body Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s the hood after soda blasting – it took care of pretty much everything but the surface rust under the factory color – I guess the flat black held its own after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After spending pretty much half the day with 80-grit sanding discs and the DA, here’s what I came up with. Now it’s almost ready for primer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And after spending half a day hard sanding the hood, I decided to use some chemical stripper to get the rest of the old factory paint off. MUCH faster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The paint stood no chance against the stripper – it cooked for about a half hour, then I unceremoniously scraped it off into the trash bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though [to my surprise] the shop was open today, I managed to get the areas I stripped paint from yesterday sanded down to bare metal. All that’s left to strip off is the trunk opening surround and door jambs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the hood after soda blasting – it took care of pretty much everything but the surface rust under the factory color – I guess the flat black held its own after all. After spending pretty much half the day with 80-grit sanding discs and the DA, here’s what I came up with. Now it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}