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Old 08-10-19, 20:02
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While there are those who are slaves to original (and I was also at one time) dry paper air filters are the way to go, all my vehicles are dry and never going back to oil bath filters.
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Old 17-10-19, 15:43
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Yesterday’s work. Started in on the nose of the truck. The nose is actually in quite nice shape. Years ago when I first got the truck Barry Churcher offered to fix the one headlight bucket for me. His guy did a fantastic job. I’m very much appreciative of that work. Now it’s finally time to finish off some minor metal work then a sandblast, prime and paint. The main fix is to remake the inner shroud and fix a previous poorly done repair by a previous owner. Sadly at some point in its life the shroud was torch cut down making it now unusable. I also need to replace a few of the captive nuts as they were too far rusted. New ones are already on order.
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Old 17-10-19, 15:45
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The inner shroud removed.

Does anyone have some drawings or measurements of one? I obviously have some measurements but not for where it was cut down.
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Old 18-10-19, 23:36
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Removing the one bad panel from the nose. A rather poorly done previous repair was the main reason. Globs and globs of brazing with an ugly seam across a flat panel is not a repair. The air hammer made quick work of the wartime spot welds. I also picked up new steel today for making a replacement panel and the air shroud.
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Old 23-10-19, 00:44
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Yesterday I cutout and made up the replacement nose floor panel. I also picked up the nose, hood, grill and brush bar from the sandblasters. I started painting the POR15 on the nose. With all the seams, I decided to hand paint so I could ensure that POR got into them. Spraying would have been difficult trying to fit my sprayer in.
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Old 23-10-19, 14:31
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Hi Jordan


My experience, several years ago, with POR15 as a base coat was that had to have the special Tie Coat primer used over it to get primer and top coat to stick. But now when I check the Por15 web site https://www.por15.com/All-Products-Category does not show it. So I'm left to wonder if they have changed product? Will watch with interest how you proceed.


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Old 23-10-19, 14:38
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My experience, several years ago, with POR15 as a base coat was that had to have the special Tie Coat primer used over it to get primer and top coat to stick. But now when I check the Por15 web site https://www.por15.com/All-Products-Category does not show it. So I'm left to wonder if they have changed product? Will watch with interest how you proceed.


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They still make it. Just changed names to High Build Primer. Still uses the same part number.

https://www.por15.com/POR-15-High-Build-Primer
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I think POR have renamed several of their products recently:
Tie Coat Primer became High Build Primer
Chassis Coat became Top Coat DTM Chassis Black
Prep and Ready became Metal Prep
Maybe more name changes to confuse me....
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