Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"

Rocket Man said:

You do regular driving?

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Tonyrodz said:

Yah

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George B said:

Not me! Been driving in town all week and weekend. Getting 13 mi to the gallon. But plenty or smiles per mile...

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Rocket Man said:

My last tank, after the new trans....8 mpg. All city though.

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Rocket Man said:

Yeah right....good one Tony, I believe you...

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Rocket Man said:

I removed the piece from the glass- the first 2 pics show it off the glass. There’s 3 screws and the bottom edge is held with high bond tape.


I used a DA starting with 220 to remove the texture but in hindsight I would have just hand sanded it, the texture comes off easy. I went to 400 then 600 hand sanding. Then adhesion promoter, the base from automotivetouchup.com, then U-Pol #1 clear. My buddy that owns a body shop thinks I might not have got good coverage on the base over the black plastic which might be causing it to be too dark so he said to scuff the clear, reapply base and then I’m shooting it with some 2k clear I ordered from automotivetouchup if it ever ships along with more base.

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Rocket Man said:

I was on @blurred ’s build thread and saw where he had someone scrape against his Hoe and not leave a note, which made me remember the same thing happened to me at work a few months ago. I don’t think I ever even took a pic of it or posted anything, I wanted to not think about it. But here it is. It actually has a small dent and it’s scraped all the way into the base coat. I think I’ll pull the tail light and see if I can massage it from the inside and then buff it to make it look a bit better. Sucks.

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Tonyrodz said:

I'm not gonna "Like" this! Some people are just assholes. Maybe touch up that spot with primer, then paint and try to wet sand then buff. You do good work Mark--bet no one would notice it but you--only cuz you know it's there.

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George B said:

Not me! Been driving in town all week and weekend. Getting 13 mi to the gallon. But plenty or smiles per mile...

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Tonyrodz said:

I'm not gonna "Like" this! Some people are just assholes. Maybe touch up that spot with primer, then paint and try to wet sand then buff. You do good work Mark--bet no one would notice it but you--only cuz you know it's there.

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