silverstate55
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I removed the entire frame for the soft top and wire-wheeled everything down to bare metal; it was all pretty heavily rusted to begin with. I sprayed everything with Rust Reformer, and then painted with Rustoleum Sand spray paint. I also wire-wheeled the windshield fold-down frame and surrounding areas to get rid of rust, and treated these to the Rust Reformer & Sand paint treatment. While this paint was drying, I decided to replace the air filter...the metal housing was pretty rusty, so I got it down to bare metal and RR/Sand treated it too. While I was at it, I painted the air intake cap I purchased from an online vendor, and installed everything once the paint was dry.
Once the paint was dry around the top of the windshield frame, I re-installed the soft top. It's in pretty bad shape, so I'm trying to literally patch it enough to last up to a year before I get my hardtop. The blue clamps are holding the soft top in place against the plastic clips along the top of the windshield frame while the adhesive cures, since the threads have all dry-rotted off and there was no way I was going to try to rethread the vinyl top to the broken plastic mounting clips. Once the soft top was re-installed, I applied liberal amounts of silicone adhesive to the top, to patch/cover up all the rips and tears. I used a tent repair kit from Wally World to repair the worst of the rips/tears, but I ended up using an entire tube of silicone to do the job right (or at least until the first road trip, anyway ).
I straightened out the bent passenger-side turn signal housing, covered up the GL spray-painted markings on the front, fixed numerous small repair items, and installed a mesh stone guard in front of the radiator that I purchased from fellow member JCKnife (I removed all the paint & rust, and repainted it to match the truck).
Tomorrow the axle swap begins!
Once the paint was dry around the top of the windshield frame, I re-installed the soft top. It's in pretty bad shape, so I'm trying to literally patch it enough to last up to a year before I get my hardtop. The blue clamps are holding the soft top in place against the plastic clips along the top of the windshield frame while the adhesive cures, since the threads have all dry-rotted off and there was no way I was going to try to rethread the vinyl top to the broken plastic mounting clips. Once the soft top was re-installed, I applied liberal amounts of silicone adhesive to the top, to patch/cover up all the rips and tears. I used a tent repair kit from Wally World to repair the worst of the rips/tears, but I ended up using an entire tube of silicone to do the job right (or at least until the first road trip, anyway ).
I straightened out the bent passenger-side turn signal housing, covered up the GL spray-painted markings on the front, fixed numerous small repair items, and installed a mesh stone guard in front of the radiator that I purchased from fellow member JCKnife (I removed all the paint & rust, and repainted it to match the truck).
Tomorrow the axle swap begins!
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