C-10 Daily Driver Part 4

Today, we're going green in more ways than one first. It's an environmentally friendly paint that's got 80% less harmful chemicals than conventional.

Then we're spraying that very same paint on our project. C 10 Daily driver and the green this time is the original factory color. It's all today here on trucks.

Hey, welcome to trucks. Well, you guys have seen us use paint primer, all kinds of body shop supplies on all of our shows on the power block. And today we're right here where most of that stuff comes from auto body color and supply because as you know, part of the secret to a successful paint project is having the right equipment and materials in the first place and having a place like this that knows how to recommend them. We're also gonna be paying close attention to a new paint technology that's getting ready to revolutionize the paint industry in this country and the rest of the world.

And for those of you who have ever had trouble color matching old paint. Well, we're gonna pass on a few tips on how to get the correct paint code for your classic ride. Let's take a look around.

Auto body color and supply is a full service job or store for automotive refinished shops and technicians.

They've got a total of five locations across Tennessee and have been around for the better part of a decade providing almost any kind of auto body paint materials, tools and equipment you'd need.

They also give expert customer support with their trained staff. But one of the most interesting things about auto body color is their focus on education and training. In fact, with their in house classrooms, they're one of the only refinished certification and training facilities in this area, hosting up to 30 classes per year. Well, we, we feel that the the training is the biggest part of what we do the best service that we can provide, the more we educate our customers, the better they are, the better it works for us.

It's not just professional painters that benefit from auto body colors, class schedule and training facility.

Anybody that's got a passion for learning or wants to better their skills is welcome.

Now, you've seen these conventional toner mixing systems before we even have one at the shop and it's basically stirring the individual toners to keep everything from separating.

But with this new technology, well, equipment like this is out of date and not even necessary. We'll show you more about that in a minute.

Waterborne automotive paint started showing up in the 19 nineties due to demands for lower vo CS, the pollutants that paint creates. And in the past few years, Waterborne has

a larger and larger market share in response to increasingly strict EPA rules. It's really, uh, it's a combination of things. It is the speed that they, that they are lacking with solvent

born

and most of all, it's probably in the environmental friendliness of the Waterborne paints.

You're really taking a huge chunk of the Solomon out of it

and the solvent is what's being released in the air in the, in the form of VO CS which everybody's harping on.

And with Waterborne, you just don't have that.

Now. A common misconception is that this is what we used to use in grade school water based paint, but waterborne paint still has a bit of solvent in it. But the fact is that Waterborne technology uses 80% less of the harmful solvent based VO CS than regular automotive paint does.

That's pretty Greek

water board has benefits other than being earth friendly

coverage is much better than solvent base and it takes less time to spray

and in the shop time means money.

And while it's better in some ways, there is a learning curve involved in switching over the more airflow you have, the better it's gonna dry the flatter, it's gonna dry.

The one thing about it is when you spray it, you can't look at it the color in the can because it's uh, it's a little different. A little trickier. So you have to trust your judgment and

that's where utilizing your color tools come in

color tools like this profit color camera that takes a digital sample or picture from five different areas of the surface processes it

and spits out a very accurate mixing formula.

Now with old weathered paint like our sample, it's best to polish it first to bring back the original luster and remove any oxidation.

Another option is a variant deck or fan deck that shows paint samples in dozens of shades.

Or if you actually have a pin code to go by, you can access

G's color database

which goes all the way back to the 1930.

You can have the job or type in the code,

check the information and see what your options are.

Our turquoise poly color came right up and showed us several variations,

giving us the choice of how we wanted to proceed and what type of paint we wanted to use. We want to show you literally what goes into Waterborne. So Brian mixes up some base coat for our truck

and one of the differences with Waterborne, it requires no mixing system to stir the toners. In fact, Waterborne will foam if agitated and the bubbles are almost impossible to get rid of. A gentle shake is all that's needed. It's always cool to see what goes into a mix and how many toners are mixed up to create eight certain colors. Bryant is mixing by weight, not by volume and each toner has a precise amount

accuracy is critical for color match. But if you make a mistake, this computer will actually compensate for an over pour. Adjusting all the other toners to match. Brian's been at this a while and is dead on with every color with all the toners poured, they get blended together to make sure everything creates our turquoise base coat

that in the can looks way too dark. But Brian assured us that once it's sprayed, the color will be exactly what we wanted. And we've learned from experience that autobody color is a company that we can count on helping create colors like copperhead pearl, Hairy Hauler, red trucks, yellow and tons of other custom colors. So if Brian says it's going to match, well, it's going to match

up next. Ryan's installing the power train in the chassis and later Kevin's using Waterborne paint to lay down the original factory color. Stay tuned.

Hey, thanks for sticking around. Well, now comes the fun part. We actually get to spray some of this new Waterborne technology and we're gonna spray it on the bed of our 66 C 10 pickup. And while Ryan's got the rest of the truck over in the shop, I'm gonna give this thing the once over and make sure it's prepped.

So while Kevin's in the paint booth, finishing up some last minute details. Well, I'm going to stay busy here in the shop and get our 66 C 10 chassis one step closer to moving under its own power. And by the end of the day, we'll have our engine bolted to our new transmission and dropped down in between the frame rails. Now, if you remember, we gave our 283 to the guys in the horsepower

shop, see if they can work some magic on it.

Mike and buddy tore down the tired block and figured out pretty quick that it was worth saving.

So they did a basic rebuild with a few upgrades such as world products, stock replacement heads with stainless steel valves that will stand up to today's unleaded fuel with a fresh paint job. They ran it in and pulled a pretty impressive two

170 horsepower out of a basically stock rebuild.

Yeah, and we were pretty happy with those

dyno numbers. Now, if you guys remember RC 10 was a three on the tree manual transmission truck and its days of being used as a work truck or they're long gone. This thing's gonna be a cruiser. So the first thing we wanted to do is convert it to an automatic transmission starts from putting on a flex plate.

Yeah,

our flex plate is from o'reilly. It gets bolted in with the help of lock tight so bolts, stay put after their tour.

Now, in choosing the transmission, we had plenty of options, but we knew we wanted to go with an overdrive unit. Now we thought for a little while just to get a part store reman. But since we're swapping this in place of a manual transmission, well, we would have had to source the dipstick, a throttle valve cable, vacuums,

switch oil cooler transmission mount and a dust shield plus the gear star transmission. Well, it's custom built to our rear axle ratio, tire size and our horsepower level. Now depending on your horsepower numbers, Gear Star can build you a transmission because they offer multiple performance levels.

Industrial Depot provides us with most of the new hardware we use and grade five is plenty strong enough for this. Bell house

gear star provides a transmission mount made from polyurethane

and it should last the life of this truck. No problem.

Now, I'm sure a lot of you guys notice that this is not a factory cross member. This is Bowler's new replacement tubular cross member designed to bolt a modern 700 R four overdrive transmission into a vintage 63 to 72 C 10 chassis.

And in most cases, it's designed to utilize existing bolt holes in the frame for an easy installation.

One of the upgrades we wanted to do was use five bolt axles instead of the six bolt axles that can't stop.

This gave us tons more options with wheels and tires

and gets us away from the farm truck look as well.

Now, the only problem with our new five lug axle is the brake shoes. Take a look at them, the friction material, it's almost completely gone.

So, rather than just throw a new brake shoes, we're gonna follow the theme we've established with this truck of classic styling with some modern touches.

So we're gonna throw in this master power rear disc brake conversion kit comes with E brake cables, caliper brackets, new rotors, calipers already loaded with pads, a master cylinder set up for disks all the way around as well as a new proportioning valve and some flex line

with the sea cliffs removed the axles come out, followed by the drum backing plates which needed a little coaxing.

The new Caler

mounts go into the stock B locations

and the rotors and the rest of the system is built off of them

and make sure your bleeder valve is pointing up. Otherwise you're gonna have a whole lot of trouble getting the air out of the brake lines

after the break. We're firing up the paint booth. Stick around.

Hey, welcome back to trucks. Today, we are boldly going where the automotive refinish industry is getting dragged, kicking and screaming into the world of waterborne technology. But don't worry, this stuff is actually easier to shoot than most solvent born paints. But there's a few changes you need to keep up with. For instance, there's waterborne reducers, there's special water

cleaners and everything's packed in plastic quite obviously. So it won't rust. We were also able to cross over our vintage colors into the new Waterborne Base Coast. So we're keeping the classic two tone on our 66 Chevy pickup first color we're going to spray today is white. But follow me because today we are quite literally going green.

Unlike double oh seven's Martini, the colors are stirred, not shaken and then poured into a mixing cup with ratios on the side.

We're only adding 20% thinner, unlike solvent base coat, which usually gets equal parts,

then they're blended together and strained into a cup.

This base coat must be strained to skim the bubbles off the top. So stick to the fundamentals

coverage is excellent using an LP H 80 mini gun from IWATA.

But one of the things with water is that it must dry properly. So we put the dryers on between coats.

These dryers are specifically for Waterborne Base and like a carburetor, use a ventura to amplify the air volume and dry. The base coat

using medium wet coats just like solvent base. The off white color took three coats for a full coverage.

Drive time was only about five minutes between coats.

Ok. The first color is painted and obviously I didn't mask it. The reason I didn't mask it is because I don't want a huge build up on my color division. So I painted past my color break. I'm gonna mask it, cover it all up and then pull it off to clear cut

remember to gently blend the base coat.

We're using a wad of mixing cups that have ratios on the side and are disposable which cuts down on clean up time and supply costs

when you're finished mixing into the cup, turn the lever to the spray mode, you're ready to spray.

Don't ever expect full coverage out of your first coat of base, whether it's water or solvent. All you're after is an even medium wet coat.

My gun speed is pretty fast and the distance is 3 to 4 inches from the panel. This is so I don't get the color too wet.

By the way, I've sanded with 600 R which is finer than usual since Waterborne Base will show sanding scratches easier.

The LP H 400 I'm using is a Waterborne compatible spray gun. Make sure yours is too

waterborne corrodes some metals and can ruin a non compatible gun

after three coats of the green which lay down smooth and even the tape comes off the first color revealing our classic two tone color scheme.

I'm using a different LP H 400 lb gun for the solvent born Clear coat. Since you can't intermix the two types of paint,

the clear requires two wet coats. And if you think it looks good now, wait until you see it out of the paint booth.

When we come back, we'll finish dressing the bed. Don't go away.

Hey, welcome back. What do you think personally I give Waterborne base coat a big two thumbs up, light metallic colors like this. They're hard to spray without getting splotchy and the distribution here is perfect and it was easy to do. So, I'm pretty darn impressed. There's still a couple of things we're going to do to this bed to make it look even better.

We ordered a new set of moldings from L MC truck since our long bed ones after the surgery were well, too long new moldings just really compliment the new pain.

Now, check out these original tail light lenses. They're in perfect condition and they've got the bow ties stamped in them down here. These are collector's items, but visibility was an issue back then, especially since we don't have a third brake light. We want another option. So we're going to use these led lights that plug into your original socket,

come with their own

bezel

and they're going to give us a lot more visibility and look great

and we'll just reuse the original backup light.

There you go.

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Thanks guys.

Got it. That's good.

Well, there you go. Classic vintage colors mixed in state of the art paint technology and like the color. It's a beautiful shade of green.

Yeah, this environmentally friendly paint turned out really good

and we got our rear disc brake conversion done engine and overdrive transmission dropped in so we can measure for a drive shaft. That's a good thing because I'm getting anxious to finish this thing up so we can take it for a little test drive.

I guess I better paint the cab.

Well, now that a 66 Chevy has its classic look back, but with a modern paint system now we can give it a modern sound system. Still keep the classic look and not hack the dash up. This is custom auto sounds USA 630

not only does it have the look of a classic radio. It's also packed with all the modern features of contemporary radios, like a USB port for flash drives and MP3 playback. It's got a large display for MP3 and W MA files with ID three tags and you can even plug your ipod into it,

do your stored files. It can also control an optional 10 disc CD changer and it pumps everything out to your speakers at a pretty impressive 240 watts.

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