Okay, well today i started to glass my body kit back together, because i'm sick of not having it on.... well my dad and i started to work on it, and smoething went wrong, so he left... well after he left, i made some progress of my own... anyone who knows a lot about fiberglassing, could you give me any tips after this progress? I put the jelly down, then some fiberglass matting, then some more jelly, to which i added the hardener. After that, i put a larger piece of matting over it, and applied more jelly with hardener. I'm new to fiberglassing, so any input would be appreciated.
what do you all think? should i sand off the gelcoat before i do the exterior side of the skirt or not?
"Love life for what you get out of it, not what it gives you"
"What happened has happened, and there's nothing we can do about it"
You mixed the hardener in after you spread it on? I don't get what you said but anywich way....this is how you can fix that.
1. grind the back side of it and clean it off.
2. Cut fiberglass cloth strips into sections for that crack.
3. Mix your resin and lay it onto the back side of the crack.
4. Lay a layer of fiberglass onto the back of the crack, lay some more resin on it making sure you push down on the cloth to get any air bubbles out and so that it adhears to the surface stronger. Do this about 3 times. (3 to make it strong, but you can do it less times)
5. Wait for it to dry and flip to the front.
6. Make a V shaped groove along the crack and grind around the crack.
7. DA the paint around the crack with 180 or 220 till you have a featherd edge.
8. Clean the area off of any dust and whatever else.
9. Mix some body filler (BONDO) and slap it on there.
10. Sand out till smooth and desired shape is aquired. Start with 40 grit, then 80 Making sure to leave a featherd edge on the body filler.
11. DA with 220 around the body work and all sanding scratches.
12. Blow out any and all pin holes with an air gun.
13. Mix and lay some putty ontop of the body filler.
14. Sand putty with 180 first to get rid of excess putty and finish smooth with 220.
15. DA with 220 around the body work again to get rid of all sand scratches and to make a feather edge.
This is just a quick runthrough of how to do it. If anything else you need to know just take this list and do a quick search on google or yahoo and you should be able to find what you need. Good luck with your project.
david excellent instructions.
Thanks. I was half asleep when I made them out and I was thinking I was gonna forget something LOL.
nice instructions. yea make sure when you start laying the glass down, that you have the hardner already mixed in. get a little piece of board or something and put some of the resin on, and then add about 1/4 of hardner to it. mix it all up and then do what dave said. you dont wanna add to much hardner to it or else you probably wont get thru your work before it all hardens up on you.
And ALWAYS clean your surface before you do ANYTHING to it.
It looks like in the pic that there is still dirt under the glass.
I'd tear it off and start again using David's instructions.
i made sure to clean the surfaces, so it's not dirt, just some mild overspray. Thanks for all the help guys, like i said, i'm definitely new to fiberglassing.
"Love life for what you get out of it, not what it gives you"
"What happened has happened, and there's nothing we can do about it"
ok, I know its dumb, but whats DA? Maybe you got some tips for me. I am going to take my stock bumper and fiberglass it. I know plastic isn't meant to be fiberlgassed. I was thinkin that I would rough it up a bit using one of those paint removing things that you put on your drill. Then drill small holes into it so that the resin will seep thru and add a layer of resin to the backside. Also, I am gonna need to add to it, I am using a 2000 bumper and 03 headlights, they come off the bumper on the bottom a bit, so I have to add a lot, what I was thinkin was using spray foam and shaving it down to fill in the area and then molding over that. What do you guys think? feedback would be GREAT! thanks
Scott
DA sander. Dual Action. The sander spins in a circle but instead of just spinning on one area it spins on alot because it has a counter ballance that moves the pad to another area. Kind of the best way I can describe it. You can do a search for DA sander on the internet and it might give you a better deff.
The other stuff someone might have a better way of doing it then what you described but I really don't wanna say anything on that. LOL I might get that one wrong. There are many ways of doing it so someone chime in on the best.
DUH! I have one of those! I bought it so I could do start the fiberglassing process. What am I thinkin. I am goin to try out the spray foam on my interior. I am doin the whole AC vents, stereo spot, and HVAC spot in fiberglass. I am moving the deck up to where the AC vents are, placin three EQs (one for subs, one for fronts, and one for rears) in the stereo spot, and putting my NOS guage and switches in the bottom where the HVAC thing is now. This should happen fairly soon, so we will see how that pans out. If it works out well, then I will move on to bigger and better things. If anyone has any suggestions, definately hit me up!
Scott
Um, your subs don't need an EQ. One for the front and back woudn't be too bad. Why not get a trunk mount 4 channel EQ?
Beat it like it owes you money
my subs need an EQ, actually its the only thing that I have hooked up to the EQ right now. I don't want a trunk mount because I wanna be able to adjust on the fly. There are 4 things on the EQ that I use for subs, volume, frequency, and two ranges, one gives me more punchy bass to go along with rock songs, and the other gives more thump to go along with rap. Anyway, my reasoning for wanting to put my EQs there isn't really important, but thats that. Anyway, anyone with any ideas?
Scott
