Re: BigKev's 1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Sedan

Posted by BigKev On 2008/4/14 0:22:27

Well I got some more of the front frame scraped and wire brushed. I still need to crawl under the front end and do all the bottom side. I am sure that will be the worst part.

I also prepped the front drums for paint, but before I do that I am going to take them to get them turned as there are a couple of grooves in them.

Once I was done with that I degreased, and cleaned up the parking brake ratchet assembly, and then repainted it with some Eastwood Silver Cadium paint. This is the same paint I used on the Fuel Pump and the vacuum advance.

The last thing I did was start to remove the big dent that is in the rear driver side door. The dent was a pretty good one, and was an area about 3/4 the size of the door scallop. The dent was deep enough in the front scallop area that leading edge of the dented scallop was level with the regular part of the door. So now I have the scallop body line bumped back into place. So by hammering down the ridge caused by the dent from the front side, backed up with a dolly (off dolly technique), that raised about 3/4 of total dent. I still have some low areas in the middle along the line of the deepest part of the dent, and I had to heat the dent with a torch to shrink it a little bit where the metal was stretched.

The remainder of the dent is too hard to work out from the inside of the door skin because of the limited access because the inner door shell. So I will need to finish the rest with a Unispotter. Once I get all the dent raised, then I will go back over it and metal finish it as good as I can, and then skim coat it.