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Hayduke's Operation: Scrambled Scrambler

With the epoxy you can usually do most paints. You need to check the tech sheet to make sure. Epoxy has different working times where you don't have to sand to put filler or paint on. Each manufacture can have it a little different. Here's a excellent web site that sells good products and a good group of forum members (similar to here). Theirs a lot that can be learned off this site http://www.autobody101.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=16. Go check it out and you'll find a lot of answers for your questions (and probably have a few more questions to boot):wave:
 
I found some rust holes under all the roll bar feet... just another welding opportunity I guess...



 
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I found some rust holes under all the roll bar feet... just another welding opportunity I guess...



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Yep, pretty standard. AMC painted them with the roll bars installed so usually just bare metal under the roll bar feet.
 
I've been cleaning up the bottom of the tub. I got a 4 pack of wire wheel brushes that go on the grinder from harbor freight. So far I have several hours in on it and after this weekend my arms are telling me! The metal wires fly out and attach you too, so safety equipment is nice. I also plan to by some goggles as I couldn't find mine.

I need another brush or two for the bottom and several if I plan to try and remove the spray in bed liner from the inside of the tub..... whew ...

I think the plan is to POR-15 the bottom of the tub, then paint it.

Took a silly picture... unfortunately before I was covered in rust..

 
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I was working on rust removal last night and decided the bed liner has got to go.... which means more work for me. I just don't like how it turns fuzzy gray and is hard to clean. So I painted it all in used brake fluid.....



You do this each day for about a week, then the bed liner gets soft and can be removed with the aggressive wire brush in the grinder. I tested this on the one wheel well first, you can see the spot to the right of the cup o' brake fluid. :thumbsup:
 
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Make sure you get it completely clean (including seams). If any of that brake fluid remains it will lift any coating you put on the tub.
 
Yeah, After removing the bed coating & paint there will be lots of parts cleaner and degreaser (maybe Marine Clean?) in my future...... I haven't decided if I'll sand blast it or not as a buddy has a sandblaster I could borrow as well.

Anyone have any recommendations on a good brand of seam sealer [/(urethane?) This will be my first time using it.
 
The bed liner & paint removal is very slow going but I'm starting to make progress. I think I may leave some of the stubborn original primer as it shouldn't hurt anything....



I used my gallon of used brake fluid up and had to switch to new dot 3 from Farm and Fleet....
 
If you used brake fluid on the primer that you want to leave, the primer may absorb the brake fluid and give you problems when you do the body work (especially if the primer is lacquer primer, I believe used in the 70's and 80's. If you plan on doing this post the question on this site http://www.autobody101.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=16. They will give you the answers. Would hate to see the body work lift because of something left on the body (under the new body work).
 
A new CJ (for parts) followed me home this weekend :)



Otherwise still working on bed liner and paint removal.... I did post on Autobody101 about brake fluid.... wondering what cleaners to use when done....
 
They will tell you. A very knowledgeable group of guys (especially the older crowd).
 
Update time, I've been working on disassembling and selling the engine from the donor CJ7. So far I made half my money back from the purchase.



I also have continued to strip the bed liner and paint from the Scrambler tub. It's slow going, but I'm starting to make good progress.....
 
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The bed liner & paint removal is very slow going but I'm starting to make progress. I think I may leave some of the stubborn original primer as it shouldn't hurt anything....



I used my gallon of used brake fluid up and had to switch to new dot 3 from Farm and Fleet....
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What you risk is that the paint stripper (brake fluid) chemically embeds itself in the primer . When you apply the new finish the solvents could cause a reaction and weird things like fish eyes, lifting, discoloration, can occur. You've got it this far, apply another layer of stripper and remove everything you can to the bare metal. Then flush the the brake fluid with a concentrated washing with purple degreaser.
 
Thanks for the advice on the stripping :thumbsup:.. That's basically what the Bodywork forum said as well, take it down to bare metal and wash well.

I put in about 3 more hours last night and have most of the bed liner gone and much of the paint! Getting closer to bare metal.... the first two layers of pink primer & black? stuff are tough to remove!

 
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AT the point you are at now, I would recommend using a strip disc, it cuts through that stuff like butter (primer/paint)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00755XY2Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They are pricey, but when you use them, you get right down to the metal quick, not too much heat, and it doesn't take any additional metal off.

I am using them all the time.

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Update: finished removing good parts from past CJ 7 and saved cowl sides to make garage art out of!



I saved part of the sad hard top to make a hillbilly half top for when my wheelin scrambler is in winter storage... Nice remaining targa top...



The remaining (unusable) CJ 7 doesn't even take up too much truck space.

 
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