Ulysses

A little progress today (or looks a little).

Started with scraping and cleaning back the cage, pickup bed and various bits. All liberally coated with the rust coverter solution and left to dry. Later on cleaned and brush painted with Buzzweld RCP this time. Second coat needed, but that will be tomorrow now. Ive cosen brush as it goes on much thicker than with the scultz gun method I used last time round, hopefully producing a better coverage. Happily the textured finish of the remaining raptor paint shows though pretty well.

A little progress today (or looks a little).

Started with scraping and cleaning back the cage, pickup bed and various bits. All liberally coated with the rust coverter solution and left to dry. Later on cleaned and brush painted with Buzzweld RCP this time. Second coat needed, but that will be tomorrow now. Ive cosen brush as it goes on much thicker than with the scultz gun method I used last time round, hopefully producing a better coverage. Happily the textured finish of the remaining raptor paint shows though pretty well.

  



And something I have been keeping quiet about for a while. When I fitted the floating rear conversion I had a load of hassle with different brake caliper setups to get it right. I also had to grind a bit of the plate away to allow the ABS sensor to fit in properly. It had been annoying me that they we less than perfect, so I designed and had made my own version, specifically to suit the renault rear disc conversion nearly everyone has now.

 

 

They fit well and are made from Aluminium (steel possible also). Happy with them now  

Black raptor today as the garage has finally dried out enough with the good weather to spray paint. Ive used 2 bottles of it to cover the tipper bed/tailgate, side checkerplate bits and cage. I was just going to brush the cage (and did with buzzweld black WAR), but since there was raptor mixed and left over I gave it a top coat with that as well. Looks good, but forgot to picture the cage of course 

 

 

Looking well.

After scraping and sanding nearly all the paint off the lower quarter it was finally time for some red this afternoon. One bottle has covered 90% of it with a flash over coat and two coats on the bits I had done with etch primer. Annoying, but I have another of the red spare so will finish it off tomorrow morning. Had enough for one day 

 

 

Then its put it all back togther next weekend hopefully

Spot on finish Riccy, it looked the dogs doodaa's when first finished.... Something about your pick up makes it look big, more substantial, maybe the flareside style bed.... Always liked it.......  A bit too much really lol, especially if you ask the finance fhurer....

Look forward to seeing it in Wales....

sniper

Did you go with raptor again pal
Or a different brand 
Looks good 
Mine needs a paint job