Start of paint and body work on 1970 CJ6

I have been wanting to paint my CJ6 ever since I got it.
I did the top 4 years ago, stripped to bare metal.

Now is the time to do the body as I needed to repair the hat channel under the floor.

This is the jeep as I got it.

This is after I painted the top.

I do have some picture of me doing the but not on the computer.

Started with front end sheet metal.
Fenders, hood and grill.
Sanded off the brown paint and most of the OEM white paint.


And the set up my sandblast booth.



And sandblast down to the bare metal.



Got to doo a little work on the fender, thay were in better shape than I thought.

Andrew

 

Not much cooler than a hardtop six. It's like being a fat kid AND playing the tuba.

 

The color will be Viper yellow, Renagade hood strip, and a New Mexico Zia, in red, on the side of cowl.
Andrew

 

ZIA? Doing the NMVJC (sucks) Are you? Lol

 

It will be just the plane Zia.
Like this.


I want nothing to do with the NMVJC
Andrew

 

I'm not logging onto NMVJC. Can't wait to see the 6 Andy, you need more aggressive tires though............

 

Got the body off this week. Sure is a lot of things to remove.
Hoard top off and seats removed.

dash removed.

Working on removing the electrical.

Lifting body off with the engine hoist.

A CJ6 body is to heavy for 2 middle age guys to lift.

More to follow.
Andrew

 

Doing the hat channels on the floor boards.



Sand blasting of the bottom.



The new hat channels

 

nice...your tub is in great condition...

 

Yes, most of the rust was in the hat channels.
Andrew

 

I hate those hat channels. Jeep engineer fail. My jeep is beat up, I kinda like it that way...but the hat channels are rusted out, so I needa take the tub off and fix 'em...and If I'm gonna do that it doesn't make sense to not do the rest...but I want to keep it's history/character, not make a nice clean street/show Jeep.

 

The sandblaster I am using is one sold by Harbor freight, It is a 80# pressure blaster with 3/32" nozzle, I did make some changes. put a pipe cross in the bottom with a plug in the bottom port instede of the tee that it came with. This make it eazy to drain it if you get something that plugs it up. Also extened the valve with a piece of pipe, this get you away from the blast back of the sand also makes it eazy on the back, no stooping over.
You can see the blaster here.



For the air compressor I am using a Saylor Beall 5hp 60 gallon unit. It puts out about 15 CFM @175 psi. It runs all the time that I am blasting, anything that is smaller you just might burn up. It takes about 45 min to use up a full pot of sand.
I also run the air through a air dryer made by Belair belairtech.net This drys the air so the sand does not clump up and plug the nozzle.

The sand I use is sandblast sand, I get it a Lowes in a 100# sack and can reuse it about 4 time then it gets to fine to do any work.
Run it through a screen wire to take out any large items that might get stuck in the nozzle.

For protection I ware a pair of coveralls long sleaves, a blasting hood sold by Eastwood, it is made of a canvas material and has a built in hard hat, heavy rubber rubber gloves that come up your arm.
You can see the glove and hood in this picture.

I also use a resperatior with good filters.
You can see in the picture above.

Use a pair of old shoes or boots because you will never all of the sand out of them.

I do all of my blasting in a tarped in spot as this contains most of the sand so it can be cleaned up, tarps on 4 sides and open on the top to let the fine dust blow away. or 3 side and a building.

Hope this helps.

I can get pictures of the air compressor and air dryer if somebody wants to see them.
Andrew

 

Chuck

I worked on it for 3 days on and off. So maybe about 8 hours.
Now i sanded off the heavy coat of paint first with 36 or 40 grit because it was going to take to long to blast it off. The factory paint on the inside came off with no problem, did not have to sand it.
Here it is after sanding but before blasting.

As to the aircompressor you will loose some CFM because of your elevation.
A good rule of thumb is you loose 3% of your CFM for every 1000 feet of elevation.
So what is your elevation in Falcon CO.
I am about 5500 ft.

Andrew

 

soda blasting uses about the same CFM but you can only use it once, as it breaks down into a fine powder.and it leaves a film that has to be cleaned off.
The soda is not cheep,
I have a blast cabnet for the small parts, it sets outside under a shed roof.
Andrew

 

That is some fine looking work, sir. The new hat channels are great. Maybe I need to trailer mine up and haul it down to you for some love. Has to be a bit warmer to work on down there than up here right now.