My 71 Duster work in progress

I was thinking of replacing the 3-groove job that came with the 360 with it before I noticed this one was small. I'll just live with the ugly extra groove, no harm no foul and like you said at least it matches the water pump pulley.
 
The black is coming off but the blue and scratches and rusty spots aren't a lot better

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The firewall's going to be a bear. I'll have to take a lot of stuff off to get that mess straightened up to good enough.
 
That will do it, when it's all said & done you really don't see that much of it.

I actually did a touch up in my bay with one of those & hit a few spots on the bottom, wasn't a perfect match but good enough for under there.
 
Acetone pretty much peels it up

Acetone - Chemical Safety Facts

It also takes the blue off. It is not a cleaner and I have to remember to not try using it as one. Just get the black off and move on. Clean it later, with actual cleaner.

It creeps me out because I can feel the temperature change from evaporation even with gloves on.
 
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Acetone is nasty stuff, and yeah... it'll wipe paint off with little issue. I used Mom's nail-polish remover (lemon-scented acetone) to strip Hot Wheels when I was a kid.
 
According to Chemical Safety Facts, acetone just smells bad but you'd need to take a bath in it for it to affect you.

I was avoiding it but realized there has to be a MSDS for it and it turned out I should use it. I also noticed that out of several containers of Goo-Gone, Goof-Off, etc, one worked great, and it smells a lot like the acetone does.

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You can see a few places where I rubbed through but it seemed like it was thin there to begin with. Or something. No matter it's less ugly now. I will need a can of B5, hopefully there's a local paint supplier that can mix and put it in a spray can. I'm not going to go crazy sanding priming and all that. It will be fine.

The firewall is going to be nothing short of a PITA though. It seems like it might have been sprayed with different paint than the aprons and yoke.

A lot of the sloppy stuff right under the fender was me, gobbing rustoleum on that flange. I'll do a little better on that before I stop, if not the spray bomb will hide it. The top of the apron on the other side was sanded and primed with hot rod red before I got it. The primer there was me ugly fixing some rust that is never going to be seen again. I ground it back to rust-free, and welded a patch over the hole and then welded the edges to the patch. The battery and the headlight bucket hides it. Good enough.
 
I copied this from a prior page to show where I started
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Not sure what kind of paint your getting, but I also bought a couple of the clear with hardener from the paint shop (the ones with the mix button on the bottom)
I've been using a lot of rustolium clear but I'm not sure it has hardener in it?

I think I paid 38 bucks a can to have B5 mixed.
 
I will try get single stage if possible so I don't have to mess around with clear. I am not interested in wet sanding or cut and buffing anything, believe you me. If I can't get single stage it might not get any new paint at all. I'm done with fighting hassles.

At first I thought I should get a couple of cans so I know I have plenty but at $38 (even more nowadays no doubt) I need to scale that back.
 
Also, I was trying real hard to avoid taking the grille and bumper off but no dice. The front of the rad support is white so off they come. I might just barely clean it before shooting it with bbq black, but shoot it I will.
 
Remember, the guy that shot the core-support blackout at the factory was standing beneath the car in a pit, so to avoid losing points in the Platinum tent you'll want to shoot that paint at about a 45° upward angle.


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RUSTY Cuda said:
the amount of work it takes to get one small area clean
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Cleaning the black off is easy. Cleaning the black off without wiping the blue off too is not so easy :)

There are places I can't get to, like in the pinch welds between the different panels. That kind of just looks like a shadow :)

I wish I could find a close enough paint solution, but I've got a cabinet full of wrong colors from the last time I tried that. I actually should throw those out ...

The code is GB5 if anyone has suggestions that might work. Now that I've rubbed the black off it looks more like EB5 because it's "clearer" and a lighter shade in places.
 
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