A local sandwich shop here sells sub sandwiches they call Grinders. The story goes that they were sold to shipyard workers building Liberty ships during WW2, and the workers were called Grinders, so the name stuck to the sandwich. Today I was a Grinder, a job that is dirty, noisy and definately not fun or as tasty as the sandwich.
I was hoping to get the halo and A pillars of the rollcage in but first the old rollbar tubing had to be removed from the 6x6 1/8" plate welded to the floor by the kick plates. When I put those bars in I was much less experienced and frankly did a pretty horrible job of fitting the tubing and tried to fill large gaps with the welder. The end result was a lot of weld metal to be removed. I cut out as much I could with the plasma, but ended up spending two hours with the angle grinder, on my knees, eating sparks. Picture is of one of the cleaned up floor plates.
Before that grinding experience I painted the rear housing with Duplicolor truckbed liner. It comes in a spray can and leaves a nice mottled finish and its supposed to be tough as nails. It definately looks the part. One tip I learned off TV is to take a piece of cardboard and use a hammer to punch the studs through, then overlay the gasket and cut around the gasket. This masks off the area where the third member installs. Very nice!
