Body Work for Dummies - Datsun Z Rebuild Episode 10

[@fooglez]

Thank you for investing your money, time, and car for science. It's nice to see you try new things and document your journey. Well done.

[@VTSR83]

Hello from France I will follow your restoration, because I love this model and I also hope to have one very soon. Just think of putting on an anti-noise helmet and a dust mask, courage and good luck.

[@01AceAlpha]

Hearing protection!!!!

[@Super73VW]

If you had your body on a rotisserie, dry ice works great to get the undercoating nice and brittle for the scraper to work. The reason why I say if you had a rotisserie is that gravity stuff makes it hard to hold dry ice on the vertical panels.

[@williamandrews1683]

Your neighbors must love you.

[@JordanPayneLV]

Man! You definitely tested a lot of tools! I used one single wire wheel to strip all my wheel wells and my entire underside of my Datsun and it worked great. Don’t be afraid of that thing. Also, your air chisel will work great for the interior sound deadening, that stuff sucks! Remember to get some dry ice when you remove that stuff

[@blackpearlmedia7797]

Awesome! I wish I had that Needle scaler when I was treating rust on my truck a few weeks ago

[@resurrectionmotors2421]

Hey buddy just discovered your channel this morning and it was awesome to see a young person so conscious about PPE great job however the power tools you're using are more than 80 decibels of sound you should use hearing protection single stage hearing protection 60 to 100 decimals single stage protection 100 decibels are higher double hearing protection single hearing protection being ear plugs double hearing protection ear plugs and muffs would love to answer any questions you might would have I enjoy seeing new channels good luck and I will be watching and I have subscribed God bless brother oh yeah I almost forgot brother excellent idea on the welded post coming down two wheels as a replacement for the Dolly but as much as that car shakes maybe you should look into adding eye bolt on crossmember by the wheels

[@mikegadoury6172]

I see your finding many of the same results I did with the mechanical methods of removing the undercoating. Most cause damage to the sheet metal in some way or another, where others are just too inefficient. I ended up chemically stripping with the Eastwood Down to Metal Stripper. Two coats took the undercoating and primer off. Then I used the Eastwood Pre-Paint product which did a nice final clean of the residual undercoating left. Fender wells are pretty easy going compared to what it will be like doing the under belly of the car. You need to roll her up on her side !! At a minimum cross brace your caster legs - something bad will happen with the amount of side to side movement you have there!

[@jayinmi3706]

Those Irwin Unibits are great...but strangely, the Harbor Freight ones aren't bad. I use them all the time, and I work on cars for a living. Also, my plan for an S30 was Blue with Panasport style wheels, so I approve of your choices. lol

[@derkm]

Awesome video man!! I'm planning on doing similar work to my BMW 2002 and this type of info/testing is a huge help 😁👍

[@projectkod]

oh wow, nice I've watch your old vids, didn't know you going all out and doing the body from stratch! Nice job man! Sending good vibes from California!

[@fearlessactionsports9993]

I love your simplicity

You've made an awesome job on your Devil Z. I can't wait to hear her roar!

[@GrindhousePerformance]

Im so glad to be on the home stretch for body work on my Z...

[@jayinmi3706]

I know it's WAY too late, but you could also use a torch or heat gun and a scraper to remove the under coating and then chemically strip the paint.

[@danielhughes9556]

You need to triangulate your setup for supporting the car. Front and back. That thing could easily fall over. It's almost scary. However, nice vids, and nice reviews. I enjoy your stuff

[@av8ferg237]

I was going to make the same comment. You have got to reinforce this stand with 45 deg supports. This setup you have is going to collapse with any lateral force.

[@Takusanmizu77]

Great series! Just picked up a 240 recently and ordered the restoration book u recommended. Wondering why no hearing protection during grinding tho??

[@georgeg7712]

Great videos but get some PPE please.

[@jeffreythurston8566]

since it seems like you frequent HF like myself for my datsun build check out hfqpdb.com which has an inventory of all the coupons available that way you save as much money as you can and get as many tools that you need as possible. I havent started the underbody yet and im dreading it because its a pain. Keep up the great work.

[@matyask5539]

You can use baking soda as a blasting media. It’s pretty cheap and is better for you and the environment

[@sawyercollingsworth4461]

If you're stripping the paint yourself I would HIGHLY recommend checking out the Eastwood contour surface conditioning tool. While it may be a bit expensive it will save you a ton of time on your project. If you want demos I would check out the Eastwood youtube channel, they have a ton of helpful videos demonstrating the different barrels and how to use it.

[@simonJobin]

Is it just me or I get scared almost every time I watch one of your new video. You definitely need to brace these dolly this looks dangerous the way it is right now. Maybe you should consider buying or building a rotisserie. Anyway keep up the great work. Love your videos.

[@StalwarD2]

Have you been considering using the liquid sandblasting kit by any chance? The one you screw on top of a .pressure washer? Really curious how those turn out

[@enriquehidalgo630]

What about Dustless blasting? I have a 78 280Z and when I get a house with a garage I will strip it.

[@justinroberson9678]

Thanks for the info! Great video

[@미스타슈]

i think under body under coat remove is sand blast or fire toch with metak brush

[@미스타슈]

5:51 The method is to thinen of the panel and a plating layer of the panel is blown away

[@RestorationForBeginners]

Yeah I'll have to keep playing around with the blasting, I think that was the most disappointing thing to me, and it made a hell of a mess.

[@미스타슈]

@@RestorationForBeginners Don't Sanding to Body Paint The panels are uneven.we are not a robot, it's not able to get the paint off elaborately we will be done later with putty to the face Putty is not a good way My personal opinion recommends a paint remover

[@미스타슈]

lFinally, how far do you think you're going to be able to? you need to co2 welder, spot welder, argon welder

[@미스타슈]

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[@paulcorona642]

Dry ice bro.

[@rolandodimaano292]

Hey, if you just fill the gap on that garage you wouldn't have to make several dolly. Lay a ziplock bag on the gap filled with epoxy steel! Problem solved!. Then you can easily remove it becuase its laying on a plastic!

[@av8ferg237]

Keep up the good work. I know you want to do all of this yourself but some items should be farmed out. This is a marathon and you need to save your motivation for all the work to come. I don’t think it would cost that much to professionally media blast the underside of the chassis. Keep the videos coming. BTW, I think your compressor is too small to keep that media blaster at the right pressure. A pancake compressor isn’t enough if thats what you are using,

[@ocielaquino6950]

Ayyy first one 👌😬 I’m loving the videos and build man, I’m working on my 280z as well and man I hated taking off the undercoating on my Z! It was a pain! Like that your trying different ways tho probably should have done that my self but oh well 🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyways keep it up!!! I’ll bee watching 👀 lmao 😂

[@RestorationForBeginners]

Thanks man, what method did you end up choosing? I'm kind of afraid to use chemical peelers, since that stuff seems pretty nasty

[@ocielaquino6950]

Restoration For Beginners sorry for the laaattteee reply lol but I used the scraper method took a while but I got most of it I just need to hit the rear of the car and under the gas tank 😩

[@peterdawson8180]

If you called this video 10 budget sandblasting tools compared (or something like that) you'd get 1 million views. Same as your L28 tune up videos. Change the title to something more generic and get some views. Your videos are awesome.

[@mustafa13061]

ear protection bro dont let ur ears go bad

[@davewm9589]

any updates?

[@imsgoalie1]

On the one hand it's awesome, your willingness to jump in to a large project that will be largely a solo learning process. that said, You need to triangulate those god damned posts you put under the body of that car before you move it another inch, and that front-to-back and side-to-side. The torque that the wheels on the ends of those posts are exerting on the two little chassis bolts is unsafe. Those bolts have a shit ton of tensile strength, they are not meant to handle the type of load you're exposing them to right now. Good luck!

[@79TEOG]

Go fund me smh!

[@KathyWeathersbeeSC]

Dude if you're gonna have music in your vids, turn that Shit way down.