Awesome transformation. People don’t realize how much labor it takes to properly do this. And it never ceases to amaze me just how bad a job some hacks do. I’m a bodyman at a high end shop that does pre war British car restoration. Thanks for the video and Job well done!
I’ve been binge watching all of your videos. New sub! I don’t know how you don’t have 100x the subscribers. Every other truck restoration on YT is stretched over multiple weeks/videos. You’re an absolute legend.
Well I definitely appreciate your subscription as well as your commentary! This truck took over three weeks...but I try and edit my videos to a realistic length. My earlier videos were sectioned out...but when I went back to watch them myself...I wasn't pleased with that aspect and made a change. Thanks!
I have done collision work for 10 years so I kind of know what’s involved with this work, You are a wizard from body work and especially your tape jobs
Gee Ray, what a Chanel you have created! I can see your RUclips Chanel going ballistic in a very short period of time. It’s the perfect format in duration quick and too the point so don’t change it. I would love to see you and the following RUclipsrs Genrty and Sons, SH Tube and Semi-Casual RUclips channels work together on a project. You are part of the 4 top Truck channels so fare. Keep up the great work. Look forward to the next videos Cheers Damo Australia NSW
Well Ray, your first thought when you saw that truck must have been, my god, what am I supposed to do with this thing!? You must have a lot of self-confidence to take on such a project?! So many cracks and holes, I thought, that won't work at all. But you have AGAIN created something beautiful from this project! For me personally, you remain a true artist, a real specialist. I'm already looking forward to the next project Greetings from the Netherlands
I agree that this project was daunting...but I've spent so many years doing this that it's easier nowadays to just pay attention to one step at a time and not get overwhelmed by the totallity of it. I have definitely done more than my share of marathons in the last quarter century though! Thanks so much for your kind words, my friend!
I love your videos ..it's nice watching someone who has put the years in to learn along the way and reach the top of the tree. I would like to see you in a much deserved dedicated spray booth with all the bells and whistles where all those nasty fumes and dust particles are removed safely not just blown around the shop to settle and contaminate everything. So whatever you are charging now, for the superb quality you achieve there must be scope to add a little on the bill to get what you deserve and protect yours and the lads health and safety. Keep the videos coming and take care.
Well... first of all... I 100% appreciate all of your kind words. I've been at this a long time and made every mistake an auto body/ industrial painter can make at one time or another. The trick has always been to not turn in the work with mistakes still in place...and to try and not repeat the same mistakes as well. My shop... which measures 30' by 63', with 16' doors and sidewalls...serves as a spray booth in it's own right. I have a 3' fan at one end and fresh air coming from 2 openings at the other end...which are fed by torpedo heaters when I shoot in the winter, so the temp stays where I need it. If you watch the overspray in the shooting sections of my videos...you can see it traveling toward the front of each truck every time. That's where the exhaust fan is. Granted...I wouldn't turn down a giant spray booth...but a unit as big as I would need would likely run around 300,000$. Again...Thanks!
Fantastic great looks stunning. You do wonderful work. It'll be nice when the owner finishes his end of it. But you're in as far as I can tell. Was perfection God bless you and thank you for sharing.
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 Cabovers Rule is my motto! You never know ow how much work a truck needs until you start working on it & this tuck sure needed LOTS of TLC! I hate to say it, but some nut got a hold of this & really didn’t do it any good whatsoever! Maybe that’s why your guy got it. You put a great deal of effort in making this truck RIGHT & TRUE! I’m shocked the owner wanted to delete the cab lights & horns. I can’t find any reasoning for that, but he had his reasons. This truck was such a big canvas. I’m thankful that you carried the stripes all around/over the truck! It really deserved that. It enhances that green color even more. I could never understand why many of the old trucks only had full color on 3 sides. You never leave any canvas open or undone. That’s how I feel anyway. Thanks for sharing this video. I hope to see what it looks like when it’s all put back together. Good work! Blessings! 🥰😎✌️
A lot of these older cab overs ...particularily the ones that have spent their lives in colder climates where the highways see a lot of salt... have horns that don't work properly...or at all. He will likely have a chassis mounted horn set up and he's already told me that he has a LED cab light set up that he's installing. Because of the difference in location of each light though... he just wanted the holes gone so he could drill the new ones where he wants them. As you saw in the video...this original stripe scheme didn't go around the back at all. I don't care for that look much on any truck. Just looks uninspired and lazy. Whoever worked on it before me left a mess and made a number of bad decisions. Some people don't like it when I point that sort of thing out in my videos and attempt to teach me a lesson on publicly bad mouthing others by getting in my comments and publicly bad mouthing me. Not only am I as proud and stubborn as they come...as is evident by our work ethic... But I don't respond well to hypocrisy. If they are so soft that they can't take it when I say that something mellow like someone else's work is a mess..... They have no place watching my channel. Especially the next video I have coming out.... Where another truck shop left me a bunch of extra work on a big, 24 year old kenworth sleeper truck Sensitive ears might as well just move on! Thanks a lot for your kind words, my man! I always appreciate it.
I used to work at the Husky truck stop full serve diesel pumps in Nipigon ontario in 1988-89. I bet I fueled that KINGSWAY cabover at one time or another.
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 super minty paint job Bud. subscribed. Heh, I had a teacher of mine who in the 60's worked in the Binder Emeryville factory. One of his stories was him working in the cab department of using porta jacks to install the air conditioners in the roof. For some reason they had to use a portajack to stretch the cab to shoe-horn the conditioner body into the cab. Every time i see a porta jack used like that, i think of George's AC install stories.
I hope the owner of that truck really appreciates the thoroughness of work above and beyond duty for a quality job done! How do you even give an estimate of a job when you don't see the pitfalls until you get her stripped down and apart? A base standard fixed price with an open time & materials clause? That may be more than what the owner is willing to pay and now what. Thank you for the videos, I learn a lot from your work.
Dang man I get so excited when I see you drop a video! Love your videos and the hard work you put into them👍🏻. Love to see this after the owner gets it back and polishes the chrome/ aluminum and finished
I enjoy watching your videos. I repainted my stretched International sleeper convention truck in flat black and am happy with the result but I seen a couple mistakes I made, especially with the little cracks in the fiberglass. I just purchased an Iveco cabover and am going to paint it to look like a European fire truck. My trailer is a very cool looking military made office built on a heavy duty lowboy, and I am going to paint it with the same fire truck theme and the interior will be a mobile kitchen. I’m going to later place the whole set up on a piece of land so I have the utilities I will need. It’s going to be a journey for sure but I am excited to see things coming together. The trailer will need some custom metal work to install a lower floor level where the serving windows will be. After I can afford a piece of commercial land I will swap out the truck tractor and use a different international truck that is beautiful but has EGR issues, and I will put the Heavy Duty Iveco to work in a different business. My Iveco is a monster, with a factory double frame, dual rear axles that are full locking, and the truck has less than 30,000 miles on it. It probably needs to go to the oilfield or into logging. My authority is for specialty tankers, and I could easily get my hazmat certification and probably stay intrastate, which I would prefer. Anyway, I enjoy your videos and am figuring out how you do the stripes. It looks like you are applying vinyl cut wrapping and then pealing it off the next day. I wonder if you have templates for your cutter or are they created in a CAD program. I have a local vinyl cutter but haven’t consulted with him on stripping. I do think I am going to apply my DOT information with vinyl, after the base coat, then peal the vinyl so everything is painted, not vinyl which deteriorates. Anyway, thanks for the videos.
Well it seems as though you have a pretty solid plan in the works. Always good to be moving forward and doing as much of the work in house as possible...just as you are. Thanks for your positive input, my friend!
I love how you rounded the corners on the bottom stripes on the front of the cab. Also like how you completed the stripes over the roof. Figuring out why the door frame wouldnt hold its shape and then reinforcing damage inside the cab that isnt visible is one of the things that sets your shop apart. Great job!
My dad back in the day drove a KW cabover for Beaver Transport outside of Kenosha, Wis.. Before that when I was a kid he drove a car hauler in the 50’s/60’s for Arco transport also in Kenosha.
@teams.t.e.a.m6214 I watch all your videos. You really care about your paint jobs. I like that in a painter. Good job. Keep up with the great videos. Your welcome.
New subscriber here.. killer job boss. My dad just had his 1995 Pete 379 completely restored from the frame to the front interior. So I know roughly the cost. Money in the bank on this job👊🏻👊🏻
Most modern single stage is shiny if you thin and spray it out correctly. There are actually 2 different brands of paint on this project. The black is a PPG 2K urethane...and the green is a Nason 2K urethane. I also shoot Imron...which is owned by the same company as Nason and also very shiny and trustworthy paint. Thanks a lot, Buddy!
Love your videos and looking to paint my truck. After watching your videos it's going to be hard to let anyone else paint my truck. With that, can you talk about how much this KW paint job costs (ball-park)?
This particular one was a little over 20 grand. Cab overs are typically in the 16 to 20 range...but this one needed quite a bit of extra attention. Thanks a lot!
I never end up counting hours on projects. My shop isn't regimented in any sort of predictable or typical way. My guys are paid by the truck [ and paid very well ] ...so I don't even keep track of their hours either. This truck was in my shop for a month...but we took some days off in the beginning because it was -32 at night and -24 during the day for like 4 days. I just shut the shop down when it gets like that. All in all... it was a little over 3 weeks worth of work...and as you saw in the video...I did most of the technical stuff and problem solving myself. My guys are sharp...but that's a measure of control I've always insisted on...and always will. Plus this business will burn you out in a hurry if you let it. So I don't really expose my guys to that side of it...so they're always fresh and eager that way. Most cabovers require extra steps and procedures...and they end up in the 20 grand range. This one was a few thousand over that mark. Thanks a lot!
Great job as usual. What's the best way to fix all those cracks in the fiberglass like what the roof had? I see you put glaze in them, is that the best way or could you put a layer of fiberglass over it. I'm working on an old Kenworth and the roof and hood have tons of those little cracks. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks and keep up the good work.
First of all...thanks for your positive input! I actually have a few tricks for filling an ocean of cracks like those roof caps can sometimes have. I'll show a more complete explanation in a future video. yes...glazing works just fine for that as a solution. No need to put it on thick. Just smear it on there like you're trying to press it down into the cracks and use your spreader to get as much of it back off as possible. That way sanding it is easier and more uniform. No need for fiberglass on that specific type of crack because they are not structural cracks. They don't even go down past the gel coat because they are the gel coat. The heat generated from the UV is what causes them...and they arent present in the actual fiberglass below them. Sometime when you are walking past a white RV with a fiberglass shell that is a decade old or older...take a look at the stripes on the side of it. What you'll see is virtually no cracks in the white part and many in the colored stripes right next to it. Thats because of the stress brought on by the heat generated by the darker shade itself. So yeah... glazing works just fine for that.
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 Ok thank you for the information, I will give glaze a try. My truck is brown in color so I hear you on the heat and UV it creates. The paint gets very hot in the sun. Thanks again for the advice.
In the modern world...there are basically 2 kinds of automotive paint. Base clear and single stage. Either one can be high quality...and either one can be total junk...depending on the manufacturer. What I shoot typically is a single stage urethane called 2K urethane.
I shoot from the PPG light industrial coatings line. The paint line is called AUE 360. It's a 2K single stage urethane. Thats the black I used on this project. The green is actually Nason. I shoot either Nason or Imron when there is a specific paint number I am expected to match. So this project has two different brands sprayed on it. Thanks a lot!
I do base clear from time to time...but most generally, I shoot single stage 2K urethane. Base clear is only as good as the quality of the clear coat itself. And the majority of all these clear coats on the market...particularly the ones anyone can have mailed to them... are subpar in every way.
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 i understand you did what the owner specified, it just looks unfinished with nothing breaking the 2 colors up. Just my opinion of course
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 thanks bud. I'm up here in northwestern, Wi We definitely do not have anybody with your detail. I've had a few worked on. Wish you were closer
Before the tan primer….. looked like way too much shiny bits ???? Great job around the rivet’s tho. Helped one time and the rivets and scotch brite…….. finger pain
you have 3 days after the wet sanding primer to either reprime or top coat it. after 3 days, you are required to resand and rescratch everything. thats why i didnt completely rescratch every rivet and nook and cranny. i just sanded down the stuff i wanted to have more level than before.
I typically try and avoid welding on literally anything that I can't get to the back side of....especially on older vehicles. The reason is because if there happens to be something flammable back there that you are unaware of...like say an old rats nest... then you have likely just started a fire inside of a compartment of a customer vehicle that you now cant get to. I welded the front because i could get to both sides and also because it really needed it for structural integrity. On the doors, what I actually did was knock those holes in a little bit with a shrinking hammer first, so the fiberglass could get deep enough to matter without leaving a mound on the surface to have to try and deal with. Then I used a burr to ensure proper adhesion. That sort of repair will last as long as the truck does. Plus welding tends to warp surfaces...causing a whole new host of problems. Thanks for your input and thanks for subscribing!
Hi whatcha up to hope all is well sending up prayers 4 healing and unspoken and 4 everyone and bless great healthy peaceful safe journeys travels and happy day everyday in name of the Creator God/ Yahweh and Yeshua/ Jesus and the Holy Ghost/ Spirit in Heaven Amen much honor and respect keep walking tall always and keep praying and keep on keeping on pushing forward one step at a time also wow what a job basically rebuild it the brake drums could have been painted too however that's my opinion tho and wow cool job 🕊🦅🎚💪🙂👍👍 🚛🌅🌌⛺🌄🏞🏖
there is nothing worse than someone doing trash work.thank you for doing things right even though it’s not my truck!
Thank you very much, My friend!
Awesome transformation. People don’t realize how much labor it takes to properly do this. And it never ceases to amaze me just how bad a job some hacks do. I’m a bodyman at a high end shop that does pre war British car restoration. Thanks for the video and Job well done!
So you have seen some serious challenges as well, I take it. Thanks a lot, Buddy!
THE QUALTY OF WORK YOU AND YOUR TEAM PERFORM IS OUTSTANDING!!!!
Well I certainly appreciate that, my friend!
A craftsman who gives a damn. Good work man.
Hey thanks a lot, buddy!
Awsome job !!! I love seeing someone that does it right & doesn't cut corners .
Well I certainly appreciate that!
What a transformation! Awesome job, love these old school cabovers. You made this one look spectacular.
Thanks so much! I appreciate it
I’ve been binge watching all of your videos. New sub! I don’t know how you don’t have 100x the subscribers. Every other truck restoration on YT is stretched over multiple weeks/videos. You’re an absolute legend.
Well I definitely appreciate your subscription as well as your commentary! This truck took over three weeks...but I try and edit my videos to a realistic length. My earlier videos were sectioned out...but when I went back to watch them myself...I wasn't pleased with that aspect and made a change. Thanks!
You sir an absolute craftsman! Turned out beautiful keep up the amazing work!
I definitely appreciate it!
I recognize the old paint Scheme on that truck, it's an old Kingsway transport out of Canada I think.
You guessed it, my friend!
Love your videos on repairing old trucks then transforming to hewsome looking ones
Well I certainly appreciate that!
I have done collision work for 10 years so I kind of know what’s involved with this work, You are a wizard from body work and especially your tape jobs
Well you certainly have an eye for detail, thanks for the compliment! I appreciate your positive input
Looks absolutely amazing never a half ass fix ...always 100 percent
Well I certainly appreciate your kind words! And thanks for subscribing as well!
Great job brother
And thank you as well! That video you sent me shows me a sharp looking fleet you got there!
Your work is excellent you make it look so easy. Great job my friend
Thanks a lot for you positive input! It is appreciated.
Awesome lookin Kenworth love your work looking forward to seeing more
Hey thank you very much!
From the thumbnail I was thinking it's not going to look good but boy was I wrong . That thing looks great !!!!
Well I appreciate your positive input, brother!
Gee Ray, what a Chanel you have created!
I can see your RUclips Chanel going ballistic in a very short period of time. It’s the perfect format in duration quick and too the point so don’t change it.
I would love to see you and the following RUclipsrs Genrty and Sons, SH Tube and Semi-Casual RUclips channels work together on a project.
You are part of the 4 top Truck channels so fare.
Keep up the great work.
Look forward to the next videos
Cheers
Damo
Australia NSW
well I certainly appreciate all your kind words, my friend from down under! Cheers!
Well Ray, your first thought when you saw that truck must have been, my god, what am I supposed to do with this thing!?
You must have a lot of self-confidence to take on such a project?!
So many cracks and holes, I thought, that won't work at all.
But you have AGAIN created something beautiful from this project!
For me personally, you remain a true artist, a real specialist.
I'm already looking forward to the next project
Greetings from the Netherlands
I agree that this project was daunting...but I've spent so many years doing this that it's easier nowadays to just pay attention to one step at a time and not get overwhelmed by the totallity of it. I have definitely done more than my share of marathons in the last quarter century though! Thanks so much for your kind words, my friend!
I love your videos ..it's nice watching someone who has put the years in to learn along the way and reach the top of the tree.
I would like to see you in a much deserved dedicated spray booth with all the bells and whistles where all those nasty fumes and dust particles are removed safely not just blown around the shop to settle and contaminate everything.
So whatever you are charging now, for the superb quality you achieve there must be scope to add a little on the bill to get what you deserve and protect yours and the lads health and safety.
Keep the videos coming and take care.
Well... first of all... I 100% appreciate all of your kind words. I've been at this a long time and made every mistake an auto body/ industrial painter can make at one time or another. The trick has always been to not turn in the work with mistakes still in place...and to try and not repeat the same mistakes as well. My shop... which measures 30' by 63', with 16' doors and sidewalls...serves as a spray booth in it's own right. I have a 3' fan at one end and fresh air coming from 2 openings at the other end...which are fed by torpedo heaters when I shoot in the winter, so the temp stays where I need it. If you watch the overspray in the shooting sections of my videos...you can see it traveling toward the front of each truck every time. That's where the exhaust fan is. Granted...I wouldn't turn down a giant spray booth...but a unit as big as I would need would likely run around 300,000$. Again...Thanks!
Wow ! What an amazing paint job !
Hey thanks a lot!
Cab overs RULE
Funny how somewhat rare they are here in the U.S. Oversees, they are basically all you can see.
Great job you earned your pay on that one 👍💪🇺🇸
Hey thanks Elmer!
Fantastic great looks stunning. You do wonderful work. It'll be nice when the owner finishes his end of it. But you're in as far as I can tell. Was perfection God bless you and thank you for sharing.
Well I certainly appreciate all your kind words, my friend!
That thi g is gorgeous!! When you first had it painted black, ti me it looked like darth vader, so mean looking
Well thanks, that's one way to put it!
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 Cabovers Rule is my motto! You never know ow how much work a truck needs until you start working on it & this tuck sure needed LOTS of TLC! I hate to say it, but some nut got a hold of this & really didn’t do it any good whatsoever! Maybe that’s why your guy got it. You put a great deal of effort in making this truck RIGHT & TRUE! I’m shocked the owner wanted to delete the cab lights & horns. I can’t find any reasoning for that, but he had his reasons. This truck was such a big canvas. I’m thankful that you carried the stripes all around/over the truck! It really deserved that. It enhances that green color even more. I could never understand why many of the old trucks only had full color on 3 sides. You never leave any canvas open or undone. That’s how I feel anyway. Thanks for sharing this video. I hope to see what it looks like when it’s all put back together. Good work! Blessings! 🥰😎✌️
A lot of these older cab overs ...particularily the ones that have spent their lives in colder climates where the highways see a lot of salt... have horns that don't work properly...or at all. He will likely have a chassis mounted horn set up and he's already told me that he has a LED cab light set up that he's installing. Because of the difference in location of each light though... he just wanted the holes gone so he could drill the new ones where he wants them. As you saw in the video...this original stripe scheme didn't go around the back at all. I don't care for that look much on any truck. Just looks uninspired and lazy. Whoever worked on it before me left a mess and made a number of bad decisions. Some people don't like it when I point that sort of thing out in my videos and attempt to teach me a lesson on publicly bad mouthing others by getting in my comments and publicly bad mouthing me. Not only am I as proud and stubborn as they come...as is evident by our work ethic... But I don't respond well to hypocrisy. If they are so soft that they can't take it when I say that something mellow like someone else's work is a mess..... They have no place watching my channel. Especially the next video I have coming out.... Where another truck shop left me a bunch of extra work on a big, 24 year old kenworth sleeper truck Sensitive ears might as well just move on! Thanks a lot for your kind words, my man! I always appreciate it.
I used to work at the Husky truck stop full serve diesel pumps in Nipigon ontario in 1988-89. I bet I fueled that KINGSWAY cabover at one time or another.
Ha! You're probably right!
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 super minty paint job Bud. subscribed. Heh, I had a teacher of mine who in the 60's worked in the Binder Emeryville factory. One of his stories was him working in the cab department of using porta jacks to install the air conditioners in the roof. For some reason they had to use a portajack to stretch the cab to shoe-horn the conditioner body into the cab. Every time i see a porta jack used like that, i think of George's AC install stories.
I hope the owner of that truck really appreciates the thoroughness of work above and beyond duty for a quality job done!
How do you even give an estimate of a job when you don't see the pitfalls until you get her stripped down and apart? A base standard fixed price with an open time & materials clause? That may be more than what the owner is willing to pay and now what.
Thank you for the videos, I learn a lot from your work.
Jobs like this one usually have a floating price with a previously stated base line. This one was no exception. Thanks a lot!
Looks good I like the lights ontop tho
It didn't matter to me either way...but that's what the customer wanted, so it's what they got. Thanks, Donald!
Dang man I get so excited when I see you drop a video! Love your videos and the hard work you put into them👍🏻. Love to see this after the owner gets it back and polishes the chrome/ aluminum and finished
Hey thanks, My Man! I'll show some finished pictures of it in a later video. Thanks for subscribing!
Wow! Looks better than new!
Thank you so much!
Very professionally done. Nice!
Thank you very much!
I enjoy watching your videos. I repainted my stretched International sleeper convention truck in flat black and am happy with the result but I seen a couple mistakes I made, especially with the little cracks in the fiberglass.
I just purchased an Iveco cabover and am going to paint it to look like a European fire truck. My trailer is a very cool looking military made office built on a heavy duty lowboy, and I am going to paint it with the same fire truck theme and the interior will be a mobile kitchen. I’m going to later place the whole set up on a piece of land so I have the utilities I will need. It’s going to be a journey for sure but I am excited to see things coming together. The trailer will need some custom metal work to install a lower floor level where the serving windows will be. After I can afford a piece of commercial land I will swap out the truck tractor and use a different international truck that is beautiful but has EGR issues, and I will put the Heavy Duty Iveco to work in a different business. My Iveco is a monster, with a factory double frame, dual rear axles that are full locking, and the truck has less than 30,000 miles on it. It probably needs to go to the oilfield or into logging. My authority is for specialty tankers, and I could easily get my hazmat certification and probably stay intrastate, which I would prefer. Anyway, I enjoy your videos and am figuring out how you do the stripes. It looks like you are applying vinyl cut wrapping and then pealing it off the next day. I wonder if you have templates for your cutter or are they created in a CAD program. I have a local vinyl cutter but haven’t consulted with him on stripping. I do think I am going to apply my DOT information with vinyl, after the base coat, then peal the vinyl so everything is painted, not vinyl which deteriorates. Anyway, thanks for the videos.
Well it seems as though you have a pretty solid plan in the works. Always good to be moving forward and doing as much of the work in house as possible...just as you are. Thanks for your positive input, my friend!
Cool paint job. Love those old KWs.
Well thank you very much!
Awesome job, I love that black and green KW.
Hey thanks a lot!
Beautiful guys.
Thank you so much!
Flash Industrial! I’d love to have work done at this shop.
Well I certainly appreciate that!
Looks great! Would love to see it when all finished.
Ill show some pictures of it all finished up in a future video. Thanks a lot!
I love how you rounded the corners on the bottom stripes on the front of the cab. Also like how you completed the stripes over the roof. Figuring out why the door frame wouldnt hold its shape and then reinforcing damage inside the cab that isnt visible is one of the things that sets your shop apart. Great job!
Well I certainly appreciate that, My friend!
You're an artist for sure!👍👍👍
Well I certainly appreciate that, my friend! And thanks for subscribing as well!
That black looks dam good
Thank you very much!
You guys are wizards! Great job!
Thanks a lot!
Love it! That is gonna be one Awesome machine!
Thank you very much! I can't wait to see it all put back together.
Wow you do some beautiful work turned out amazing
Well, I certainly appreciate it!
You make it look so easy great work looks great keep up the amazing work stay safe and take care
Well thanks a lot, My friend!
My dad back in the day drove a KW cabover for Beaver Transport outside of Kenosha, Wis.. Before that when I was a kid he drove a car hauler in the 50’s/60’s for Arco transport also in Kenosha.
Interesting...
An old Saskatchewan truck. Nice!
Yep...That's some good ol' Canadian steel right there! Thanks a lot!
You are an artist. Super Job
Hey thanks, Man!
Wow! Excellent job. Truck looks great.
Hey thanks a lot!
Great work !!!!
Thanks a lot!
Beautiful 🫠
Thanks a lot!
Beautiful work man!
Thanks a lot!
Beautiful job and paint
Thank you very much!
@teams.t.e.a.m6214 I watch all your videos. You really care about your paint jobs. I like that in a painter. Good job. Keep up with the great videos. Your welcome.
New subscriber here.. killer job boss. My dad just had his 1995 Pete 379 completely restored from the frame to the front interior. So I know roughly the cost. Money in the bank on this job👊🏻👊🏻
Well I certainly appreciate it! And thanks for subscribing!
Admiro o seu trabalho, parabéns pela qualidade, um abraço do Vander caminhoneiro Mg Brasil.
well I appreciate that! And a big hello to Brazil!
Very nice job
Thanks a lot!
Great job
Hey thanks!
Wow impressed, could you show your different gun setups? I noticed you use different configurations, and they always leave a beautiful finish.
Thanks a lot, Buddy! I use a Binks 2001 conventional gun on my spray cup and a Binks 2001 pressure pot gun on the set up with the 50 foot hose.
looks great !! good job !
Thank you very much!
Love your videos and work! So as I understand it you use a single stage paint? How do you get it so shiny??? 😍😍😍
Most modern single stage is shiny if you thin and spray it out correctly. There are actually 2 different brands of paint on this project. The black is a PPG 2K urethane...and the green is a Nason 2K urethane. I also shoot Imron...which is owned by the same company as Nason and also very shiny and trustworthy paint. Thanks a lot, Buddy!
I would have done the paint job in reverse myself but you do what the customer wants
Sometimes I have more creative freedom than others...but most times it's what the customer has asked for.
Love your videos and looking to paint my truck. After watching your videos it's going to be hard to let anyone else paint my truck. With that, can you talk about how much this KW paint job costs (ball-park)?
This particular one was a little over 20 grand. Cab overs are typically in the 16 to 20 range...but this one needed quite a bit of extra attention. Thanks a lot!
Love the work you do. Where are you located
Upton, Wy. I can be contacted by messaging me through my FB page if you are ever interested. Thanks a lot!
Great job and work ethics, you just saved me from watching months of "peterbilt mike" (mike the truck nut) videos,. thanks,.
Thanks a lot, my man! And thanks for subscribing as well!
Great work!
Thanks!
So what was the number of hours involved in the repair and the cost of it. It is gorgeous
I never end up counting hours on projects. My shop isn't regimented in any sort of predictable or typical way. My guys are paid by the truck [ and paid very well ] ...so I don't even keep track of their hours either. This truck was in my shop for a month...but we took some days off in the beginning because it was -32 at night and -24 during the day for like 4 days. I just shut the shop down when it gets like that. All in all... it was a little over 3 weeks worth of work...and as you saw in the video...I did most of the technical stuff and problem solving myself. My guys are sharp...but that's a measure of control I've always insisted on...and always will. Plus this business will burn you out in a hurry if you let it. So I don't really expose my guys to that side of it...so they're always fresh and eager that way. Most cabovers require extra steps and procedures...and they end up in the 20 grand range. This one was a few thousand over that mark. Thanks a lot!
@teams.t.e.a.m6214 well it looks very good 👍
Great job as usual. What's the best way to fix all those cracks in the fiberglass like what the roof had? I see you put glaze in them, is that the best way or could you put a layer of fiberglass over it. I'm working on an old Kenworth and the roof and hood have tons of those little cracks. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks and keep up the good work.
First of all...thanks for your positive input! I actually have a few tricks for filling an ocean of cracks like those roof caps can sometimes have. I'll show a more complete explanation in a future video. yes...glazing works just fine for that as a solution. No need to put it on thick. Just smear it on there like you're trying to press it down into the cracks and use your spreader to get as much of it back off as possible. That way sanding it is easier and more uniform. No need for fiberglass on that specific type of crack because they are not structural cracks. They don't even go down past the gel coat because they are the gel coat. The heat generated from the UV is what causes them...and they arent present in the actual fiberglass below them. Sometime when you are walking past a white RV with a fiberglass shell that is a decade old or older...take a look at the stripes on the side of it. What you'll see is virtually no cracks in the white part and many in the colored stripes right next to it. Thats because of the stress brought on by the heat generated by the darker shade itself. So yeah... glazing works just fine for that.
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 Ok thank you for the information, I will give glaze a try. My truck is brown in color so I hear you on the heat and UV it creates. The paint gets very hot in the sun. Thanks again for the advice.
Beautiful work, i didnt notice any clear coat being sprayed. Is this a different kind of paint from modern paint?
In the modern world...there are basically 2 kinds of automotive paint. Base clear and single stage. Either one can be high quality...and either one can be total junk...depending on the manufacturer. What I shoot typically is a single stage urethane called 2K urethane.
Being that the kw was bought in Saskatchewan and run in Canadian winters it had on what we refer to as winter front, not a bra!
Fair enough...
Won’t be completely finished until the Yosemite Sam splash guards are installed!
It's all part of the plan, my man!
good job/what the cost on a job like that
cabovers...from front to back like this one...are generally around 16 to 23...depending on the details. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic work you guys do!
Is there a particular brand of paint that you recommend?
Love the channel!
I believe Ray said in previous videos that he uses PPG products.
I shoot from the PPG light industrial coatings line. The paint line is called AUE 360. It's a 2K single stage urethane. Thats the black I used on this project. The green is actually Nason. I shoot either Nason or Imron when there is a specific paint number I am expected to match. So this project has two different brands sprayed on it. Thanks a lot!
Awesome job do you spray clear coat over the paint 💯👍
Thanks a lot, Buddy! No, I don't normally. It's a single stage urethane that doesn't require any clear
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What does it cost to do all this? How do I get a quote
Just send some pics along with a description of what you're looking for to 307 746 5915 and I'll get you some numbers. Thanks!
Dam doggie god bless ya it will be a bute when it’s done
I'll post some pictures of the finished product in a future video
How do I get a hold of you, for company business?
307 746 5915 or message me through my FB page. Thanks!
I could n t FIND You guys on Facebook .......... ............. Your Facebook page ................ what was it again ?
Flash Industrial Painting
That was absolutely incredible! The truck looks fantastic! Just curious how many hours went into that total with you and the boys 100 hours?
Not sure, really. It was in my shop for almost a month.
Are all your paint jobs single stage or do you apply base coat clear coat as well
I do base clear from time to time...but most generally, I shoot single stage 2K urethane. Base clear is only as good as the quality of the clear coat itself. And the majority of all these clear coats on the market...particularly the ones anyone can have mailed to them... are subpar in every way.
What’s he going to do for roof clearance lights? I thought they were required? Thanks for sharing.
yes true they are required, guess he will find out some time in the future
I hope they have someone do a pinstripe to divide the green and black.
The owner sent me a specific picture of how he wanted the stripe scheme to look. That's why it is the way it is.
He's got an led set up hes going to be installing that requires small holes in different locations than those that were originally there. Thanks!
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 i understand you did what the owner specified, it just looks unfinished with nothing breaking the 2 colors up. Just my opinion of course
How long did it take you to do that truck ?
Almost a month
We're about to you located
Upton, WY. A little town on the upper eastern side of the state.
@@teams.t.e.a.m6214 thanks bud. I'm up here in northwestern, Wi We definitely do not have anybody with your detail. I've had a few worked on. Wish you were closer
Before the tan primer….. looked like way too much shiny bits ???? Great job around the rivet’s tho. Helped one time and the rivets and scotch brite…….. finger pain
you have 3 days after the wet sanding primer to either reprime or top coat it. after 3 days, you are required to resand and rescratch everything. thats why i didnt completely rescratch every rivet and nook and cranny. i just sanded down the stuff i wanted to have more level than before.
I wish u guy wers closer to me 😢
Bring 'er on by!
A mother great job.
Hey thank you very much!
Hell ya.
Thanks a lot!
Wow🎉
Hey thanks!
Привет с России! Смотрю 👍
well hello from the center of the U.S. , my Russian friend! Thanks for tuning in!
Nice 😅
Thank you very much!
Much respect to you& your crew who help you finish these old trucks.I have a soft spot spot for K100's & K104's aero,s.bulldog.austrulia.
Right on! Well thank you very much, my brother from down under!
Awe dude a k 100 and lime green ???? Ahggg
One of my favorite colors in fact
Good day sir nice work i was wondering how come you wouldn't weld the holes on the door instead of using fibeglass
I typically try and avoid welding on literally anything that I can't get to the back side of....especially on older vehicles. The reason is because if there happens to be something flammable back there that you are unaware of...like say an old rats nest... then you have likely just started a fire inside of a compartment of a customer vehicle that you now cant get to. I welded the front because i could get to both sides and also because it really needed it for structural integrity. On the doors, what I actually did was knock those holes in a little bit with a shrinking hammer first, so the fiberglass could get deep enough to matter without leaving a mound on the surface to have to try and deal with. Then I used a burr to ensure proper adhesion. That sort of repair will last as long as the truck does. Plus welding tends to warp surfaces...causing a whole new host of problems. Thanks for your input and thanks for subscribing!
How much is something like that, labor wise?
It took a little over 3 weeks in my shop and ran a little over 20 grand.
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Thanks a lot!