Crezzy's Caddy Carnage...mk1 VW Caddy Pick Up Project....Turbo Time...ermm diesel

[crezz]

flapper if you were a tad closer i feel we would have an almighty project going on! haha...i really need to get on with it now! im struggling to find any motivation for it now either! its seems that everything is starting to go against me again in general...ive lost my post round this week...(must of fell out my pocket) pfft slight bit of humour! my sky box is shagged and i dont have a digital tv so ive got absoloutely feck all to watch..just had £223 credit card bill on friday and got mayed £229 wages...if you done the maths it means im scrimping this week! lol

anyone fancy buying a kidney?

 

[Fl@pper]

up until tests were clear last week i might have taken you up on that offer mate, chin up - will come good in the end i promise

 

[crezz]

well not really much of an update due to me not doing alot! haha....ermm scuttle is nearly finished now and the inner walls of the bed are ready for heavy coat of stonechip....front panel is all etched primed up and so is the wings...still need work to mmake them perfect but the fact this caddy is going to be far from it i probably wont faff around too much....quite skint at the moment due to buying underbody gunsa and gravity feed guns jsut to find the compressor that we rebuilt aint quite working! feck sake!!

il tell ye the problem because someone might be able to tell me straight away...

its a sealey 50ltr 2.5hp compressor..the thing it aint doing is blowing off when it gets to the so called desired pressure...set it to 50psi and it just keeps charging right past...obviously cant spray because its not the consistant pressure i need! really cant affod to buy one!

 

[st10587]

just had a read through and well done! looking good so far, i hav always wanted a caddy but lack of somewhere to put it means i cant have one

 

[crezz]

cheers mate, havent done jack on it for blooming ages..finding the time is hard at the moment, need to do a few things then be ready for primer, trouble is ive said that twice before and then come across more rust!!!

anyway, so ive been greadually buying bits when can afford them

got my 2pack etch primer and high build primer

stonechaip and shutz underseal

shutz gun

sealy gravity gun suitable for base coats and finishing coats

measuring jugs and thinners jollop

and just order my respirator suitable for 2pack as the stuff is leathel

im so skint now its actually laughable...my wage packet 2moro is already gone on rent/credit card and another two new tyres for beezer! sad times

 

[Fl@pper]

Watched a yank prgram last night about that bedliner stuff (rhino something)as they were building up walls and houses and coating it inside & out as a form of bombproofing

not kidding mind and it worked a treat

they set of a 15lb car bomb next to it and the concrete walls were broken up and caved in 2ft but the bedliner was holding it all together so there was no debris

 

[Fl@pper]

ooh forgot to say earlier

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=222801

probably a bad time though, ain't it always though - sorry

 

[crezz]

the link dont seem to work mate?

 

[Fl@pper]

hmmmm

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=222801

try that one

 

[crezz]

nope

"Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

 

[crezz]

well got an updat but not a very good one...had a rather strange reaction on the 3rd coat of stone chip that was applied to the inside walls of the bed/back

went on really nice

then this happened and got worse all over :i_dont_kn

im going to have to take it all back off now and is going to take bloody ages..im really begining to hate this bloody thing, everything has been a pain

 

[st10587]

i have had a similar reaction with paint and silicon when i used to spray cars. was the bed properly degreased?

 

[crezz]

yeah was all clean and tacked ragged..but why after the 3rd coat?

 

[jenk]

What a poopter! Other than the reaction, is that stuff easy to apply?

 

[crezz]

yeah piss of pi$$ jenk,, set a compressor around 40 psi and use a shutz underseal gun (£12) and use the 1ltr canistors £5 good stuff to when it dont react like that....mega pi$$ed with this thing now tho

 

[st10587]

yeah was all clean and tacked ragged..but why after the 3rd coat?

hmmm no idea unless something has got on the bed while the 2nd coat was drying.

 

[crezz]

either way its gona all have to come off....might make me get the inner walls as straight as the rest of bodywork and just spray it without any stone chip

 

[Fl@pper]

yowch

ps - try the link now - sorry

 

[Brummy]

not good Mr Cress, not good at all... did you do the first couple of coats in the hot weather and the third since its been a bit cooler?

 

[crezz]

yeah link works now flapper! interesting..shame about this set back now!

naah brum all 3 coats where done today..seems well strange, unless i had a dodgy stonchip can which ismy sorta luck...just really parinoid about doing anything else now