A good afternoon in the shop (big pics)

[FORDification]

Since it was a slow day at work and I was basically caught up, I took the afternoon off the spent it at the shop getting my truck's firewall cleaned up and ready for the POR-15. (That's on the agenda for tomorrow.) Took me about 5 hours altogether.





I did most of this with a wire wheel in the angle grinder, then I spent about 1-1/2 hours hitting all the areas that the wire wheel wouldn't reach with 60-grit sandpaper, then roughed up the entire firewall with it for better adhesion. The second picture was taken when I was 95% done....still had a few small areas to hit with the sandpaper.

By this time tomorrow the firewall should be completely done!

[67fastbackFE]

Looks great Keith, keep up the good progress.

[dcbullet]

I love the sight and smell of fresh metal.

[72hiboy4x4]

man thats going to be too nice to drive!

[460 crew]

Looks very good Keith,are you going to paint inside the cab mounts?

[FORDification]

Absolutely! I'm just waiting until the front end is completely mocked up so that I can tighten the cab down before coating the areas inside the cab mounts. Once those are done, I intend to completely seal up the cab mounts, drill a small hole down into them from the interior floorpan and then completely fill the mounts with cavity wax....so I'll never have to worry about them rusting out again!