After tearing apart the Limited and taking the left over scrap to the scrap yard the weather turned cold and rainy so I turned my attention to something I could do inside. I started rebuilding my rear motor/transmission mounts. For details click HERE.

I spend over a week blasting the frame and body. I borrowed a home blaster from my neighbor and dragged my shop's 7hp air compressor home. I didn't think the 7hp compressor could do the job alone so I piggy backed it with a 5hp unit at home but the 5hp unit never kicked on, the 7hp unit was sufficient enough to do the job. I blasted the best I could. The areas I didn't hit with the blaster I past over for a few reasons. I didn't what to warp the large expanses of sheet metal and I got sick of blasting, I'll finish stripping those areas with an angle gringer and paint stripping wheel.

This is not a job I would encourage any one to do themselves and I would have paid some one to do it if I had the money to do so. Blasting is a hot, dirty job and that leaves sand everywhere. I live on a farm far away from my nearest neighbor so the sand wasn't a problem. I laid a tarp under the parts as I blasted to try to recapture as much of the sand as possible. I still when through about 10 five gallon pails of sand. Fortunately, we recently removed a play sand box we built for our two sons over ten years ago so I had plenty of sand. The biggest pain was sifting the sand to remove any large, and small, objects that would plug up the blaster.

Also, there's a extremely nasty danger using plain sand, it's called Silicosis. Click HERE to read more. I tried my best to avoid breathing in the dust.

There might be a slight change in direction of this project, stay tuned.