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small world. My wife used to live in Mel. She is from NSW, on the northern border, near "gold beach"(?).We Landed there when we went to vist her parents in Ballina NSW. She will be right mate.
Well bumper off
Wow
Not really hard but some of the bolts are a pain to get to
To get to the two bolts behind the fuel filler
Remove the rubber boot around filler ( make sure it's clean as u have
To remove the cap to remove it )
And there are two blots in the number plate area
Leave them until last as it holds the bumper in place
My 90 has the same belt as yours. But, due to the (incredible!) hassle to get the belts off of the doors, we left them on and very carefully masked the strip - even over the back edge of the strip so NO over spray would find its way to the strip. It took some time, but it turned out perfect: NO issues at all. (However, the rest of the belt was removed and sanded.)
Brett Henderson assisted and coached me on the repaint process. He should know, I recon. Anywayz, we rough sanded the body panels with 280 and 320 grit w/ air powered palm sanders, but did NOT strip the paint (a la paint stripper). Then he shot it with the primer, and did a final sanding in prep for the painter (I'd have to ask him what grit he used; probably 400(?).
Panels were painted separately, including the bumpers. Because I was not changing the color, the doors didn't have to come off; painted in place, after masking.
The hood stayed attached, but the bumpers came off for priming and sanding - reattached in photo with just enough fasteners to hold them on.
The primer fine sanded for the trip across town to the paint shop...
I bring these photos to this thread to show some of the basic steps that one can do before heading to the paint shop. In my case, the cost was approx 1/3 of what a "turn-key" job would have cost, in spite of the increased cost for the new Du Pont "single stage" paint (now used by BMW and some others...NOT GM tho...)
Looks great mate Well I'm going to try and dos semblance the doors tomorrow
The main issue with mine is it used to be silver and now it's black
As the just taped up the strips
That's where the paint has peaked off
The passenger side window is not work
Correctly so worth pulling the doors apart
To remove handles and strips
I have a friend doing the painting in his booth
So will do similar to you with the prep
Windows and door strips removed
Was able to get window out thru a hole that had already been cut in top of
Door
I could not undo the pin but some one had already cut the hole in the drivers side
I then used a hacksaw blade to cut a slot on the passenger side
Will remove the door handles and the rear window and weather strip tomorrow
Windows and door strips removed Was able to get window out thru a hole that had already been cut in top of Door I could not undo the pin but some one had already cut the hole in the drivers side I then used a hacksaw blade to cut a slot on the passenger side Will remove the door handles and the rear window and weather strip tomorrow
Those window stops can be a real pain to get off. One of mine came off easy and the other fought me for every mm.
Spent a few hours today
Removed the rear glass hatch
Door handles
Rear bumper strip
And rear carpet
As u can see from the pics the last person that
Painted the car did a crap job
Glass hatch off had to remove the sealant to get to the bolts and the rear stop light plug
Head lights out and will be putting new gears in the headlight motors
Rear carpet removed <br/>New carpet ordered
As u can see the last paint job was shocking <br/>U can see it pealing off
Door handles removed was simple <br/>The hardest part was undoing the nuts
Rear spoiler removed form rear bar <br/>
Rear strips removed <br/>As u can see they were not removed last time it was painted
My 89 was in the same condition, as someone had painted it black and done a very poor job. Found out it was originally red, then had to decide to go back to red, re do the black or pick whatever color i wanted. In the end i went with something different (c7 blue) and havent regretted it for a second, good luck choosing a color! In the end its your car, pick whatever YOU want. Good luck
You're making great progress. Always nice to see them given the attention. I'm sure it's difficult to do the corvette being you're in Australia. Keep up the good work!
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