While I don't know exactly what you're going through, I can empathize. My mom died just shy of seven years ago and my grandma (my mom's mom and my last grandparent) died a little over a year ago.
@@SaltimusMaximus Definitely! Talk to those who've past as if they're physically in the room with you. Put up pictures. Every year on Mother's Day and her birthday, I buy my mom flowers. I keep them for several days before taking them to my dad's house, where he keeps them until they die. I bought my grandma some flowers this year for Mother's Day and will buy some on her birthday in August.
Just make sure you have any more unwanted holes patched up and those brackets on the footer panel that hold the side steps removed before the fresh coat of black! Have the underbody rust-removed and primed/painted too and bend the landing gear handle bracket back into shape. Keep on checking those screenshots! Can't wait to see the wheels painted black!
Hey Joe this looks great! Make sure u don't wait to long with priming the aluminium. it's blasted now so the aluminium will start forming a oxide layer, which is very hard to deal with. Also make sure u use a correct primer and paint system. I have painted aluminium trailers before with Standox fleet. this a professional paint system formulated for trucks and trailers, ie big aluminium surfaces. Most big paint brands have a fleet line just for trucks.
Regardless of if he wants to filler so it looks perfect or if the show look “has dents” I would suggest removing the filler to not only inspect how think it is (you don’t want more than 1/4” thick, or it will be prone to fail) but as a body man you never trust anyone else’s work. It needs removed and redone regardless for that reason
One thing you should whatch out for is if the damage was done during the show, then the repair might have been done during the show aswell!... in that case you might want to keep the repair... it is part of its show history.
I would say remove all the body filler anyway, it looks like standard Bondo, which really degrades over time since it shrinks and expands at different rates than the metal panels. I'm sure there are modern products that are far superior, if you're not replacing the panels.
Well that was, to use a phrase, blast from the past! or blast to the past! Excellent job Joe. Your and others hard work is starting to come to fruition now.
Yay!! Another big step. It's, good grief now I have the "Star Trek Enterprise" theme playing in my head. It's certainly however took a lot of work for y'all to get it to this point. At least considering now in a way you're getting to see what you still have to work with.
I loved knight rider awesome car watched every episode and even the new knight rider show i love that you are bring back the truck and trailer from the show thanks for keeping my yourth a live great channal following all the progress that you are doing
It's all looking really clean. The best part about the sand blasting is that the trailer is now free of unsightly rust spots and it looks a whole lot nicer.
Not sure if this has been mentioned by others. But is it possible the holes on the side door could have been done to setup camera rigging for some shots?
yes, over all the episodes, the must of been many cameras mounts temporally stuck all over the place, that could possibly explain every random grouping of holes, that brings up a question, is there a standard cameras mount, that used in the film/tv that uses bots, needing the making of holes? might even be apart that could added back, to the trailer, too?
Considering how loose that paint was on there, im surprised it took that long for them to do the work. Either way, it looks soooo much better now. One step at a time 😁❤️
The sandblasting hose nozzle isn't that big and also just because it came off easy in some areas doesn't mean it came of easily in others. My biggest concern it needs to be epoxyed primed asap , it really needs to go to a professional truck place and then take care of any repairs after at home.
Aluminium needs etch primer, not regular primer. Etch is good on clean steel too, though not essential. The etch primer then gets covered with regular primer. If you use regular primers on aluminium, galvanised steel or some other metals, it’ll flake off later. The rough texture from the blasting will help adhesion, though.
I agree with everyone else. Remove the bondo. There is no telling if the surface was prepped properly when it was put down, and it appears to be cheap Bondo brand filler. You wouldn't want it coming up under your new paintjob.
Oh wow! What a massive action - I have never seen anything like that. Another shift towards the goal! All the replaced part can´t be recognised for the original ones - what awesome work, Joe! BTW - the tractor looks fantastic.
Not sure if you are aware but you keep calling all the lights on the trailer marker lights. The lights on the bottom of the trailer are called marker lights. The lights on the top of both the tractor and trailer are called clearance lights. Just letting you know.
Those guys did good, they didn't warp the skin. I was a bit worried about that. Wonder if the dents on the right side were from pulling out beside another trailer and hitting it.
Primer is typically formulated to be porous so the top coat can adhere as well as possible. Accordingly, the protection from rusting it offers is better than nothing but very far from ideal.If you selected something that does seal, that would be best for the steel parts since it's outdoors.
Shout out to the blasting guys. Not an easy job, and to keep concentrating for 11 hours, hoisting that heavy rig on your shoulder, and wearing that protective gear in the heat. Respect !
Looks like tremendous progress. I have been watching a aircraft restoration and they use "alaodyne" to treat aluminum before priming and painting but I wonder why, but maybe to keep aluminum from corrosion and better adhesion for primer and paint?
"Going to stay back so we don't get any of that lovely sand in our lungs" - Proceeds to inch closer and closer like an excited kid on Christmas Eve🤣 No WAY the trailer won't be black by years end...it's already eating at you🤣
I do have a question. when the sand blasting team comes back to finish the remain spots on the trailer, are the wheels going to get media blasted at the same time or is that going to be a project for a later date?
To The Knight Rider Historians, When you look at the crew who sandblasted the trailer and dressing in white, does that remind you of the crew who first working on KITT in the pilot episode?
did they sell it to you as "media blasted"? Because sand blasted sounds too much like a badly crippled surface? I am aware that soda blasting is way more expensive. But worth the price. I hope you'll find a way to get the surface smooth agian. especially the rivets.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial If its the surface you were looking for to make a smooth surface with effficient effort, then I am happy as well ! From the footage it just looked like a rough, sandblasted surface to me. From your words I assume, that the glass blasted Aluminium has a much smaller grain, that's easy levelled out by the upcoming primer and paint. May I ask, Why you prefered glass over soda blasting, like they did the first time?
@@genius1a soda blasting leave a residue behind that has to be cleaned off which is extra work and if its not done properly the paint won't adhere.. Soda blasting is a little oldschool now , glass is perfect for this job because it won't create a lot of heat and it won't damage the surface or warp the aluminum.
@@paulreichelt1259 ok, my limited knowledge only applied for normal steel applications on a hobby level. Before I only had sand, dry ice and glass balls on my radar. I had heard from soda blasting here the first time and on the Trailer it looked so well under the chipped paint, that I was really impressed. Seems, like you have to choose the best fitting method out of many, for each given application and there can be side effects, not noted by the amateur eye.
As a body man I will suggest this about the body filler. If you end up wanting the dents finding them from the show I would suggest removing the filler regardless. That looks like typical bondo brand filler wich is cheap crap but aside from that never trust someone else’s filler work (you don’t know the prep they did to make the repair and if it was done right). Tear it out to redo it and make sure it’s repaired correctly as well. You don’t want more than about a 1/4” of filler in any area or it will be prone to failing over time
The bondo is hygroscopic wich means it wil absorb moisture, especially now its exposed like that. i agree remove it regardless. Don''t get the aluminium to hot when sanding it out, it wil warp.
The trailer is coming along great. I couldn't help but to notice a fender for a Trans Am leaning by the tree. Any chance KITT needs repair now for some reason? Or just a spare part?
Definitely not! Those dents are history from its production use. We are restoring the outside to its exact configuration when the cameras stopped rolling in 1986....to include the dents!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial when it's done you could run a tiller across the yard where the glass bead is to get it all mixed in, then rake in grass seed to grow that patch into some very nice grass.
I really needed this today. Some happiness today helping me get through the loss of Dad.
While I don't know exactly what you're going through, I can empathize. My mom died just shy of seven years ago and my grandma (my mom's mom and my last grandparent) died a little over a year ago.
Condolences on your loss
I feel your pain my friend. I lost my Dad this past Christmas 😥
been there, it sucks, he will want you to move on and think of him, talk to him, sometimes you hear back
@@SaltimusMaximus Definitely! Talk to those who've past as if they're physically in the room with you. Put up pictures. Every year on Mother's Day and her birthday, I buy my mom flowers. I keep them for several days before taking them to my dad's house, where he keeps them until they die. I bought my grandma some flowers this year for Mother's Day and will buy some on her birthday in August.
Looks great! I do have to say that I'm quite amused by the phrase, "screen-used dents."
Just make sure you have any more unwanted holes patched up and those brackets on the footer panel that hold the side steps removed before the fresh coat of black!
Have the underbody rust-removed and primed/painted too and bend the landing gear handle bracket back into shape.
Keep on checking those screenshots!
Can't wait to see the wheels painted black!
Hey Joe this looks great! Make sure u don't wait to long with priming the aluminium. it's blasted now so the aluminium will start forming a oxide layer, which is very hard to deal with. Also make sure u use a correct primer and paint system. I have painted aluminium trailers before with Standox fleet. this a professional paint system formulated for trucks and trailers, ie big aluminium surfaces. Most big paint brands have a fleet line just for trucks.
First thing that came to mind
yup. Special etching primer for aluminum.
Nice job! My week is incomplete without this channel. 🍀🙏
When you were spraying the primer, the music from Junkyard Dog was playing in my head 🙂❤
Oh man! Yes! It looks so good and it will look even better! This is such a turning point in the restoration!
Every time I watch the show and see the semi and trailer it makes me so proud to know that it's being fully restored to it's glory.
Big step in the restoration process, a key moment even as this changes the look how it used to be, great work :)
Looks amazing with the old paint off. Please Please PLEASE don't take the bodyfiller out. Keep it nice 😊
Regardless of if he wants to filler so it looks perfect or if the show look “has dents” I would suggest removing the filler to not only inspect how think it is (you don’t want more than 1/4” thick, or it will be prone to fail) but as a body man you never trust anyone else’s work. It needs removed and redone regardless for that reason
One thing you should whatch out for is if the damage was done during the show, then the repair might have been done during the show aswell!... in that case you might want to keep the repair... it is part of its show history.
I would say remove all the body filler anyway, it looks like standard Bondo, which really degrades over time since it shrinks and expands at different rates than the metal panels. I'm sure there are modern products that are far superior, if you're not replacing the panels.
09:45 looks like the trailer is now beached 🤣
Great Work Joe, Thanks!!!! Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
What an amazing find . That trailer was a part of our childhoods to know it survived and is being restored is freaking amazing
Well that was, to use a phrase, blast from the past! or blast to the past! Excellent job Joe. Your and others hard work is starting to come to fruition now.
Yay!! Another big step. It's, good grief now I have the "Star Trek Enterprise" theme playing in my head. It's certainly however took a lot of work for y'all to get it to this point. At least considering now in a way you're getting to see what you still have to work with.
I loved knight rider awesome car watched every episode and even the new knight rider show i love that you are bring back the truck and trailer from the show thanks for keeping my yourth a live great channal following all the progress that you are doing
It sure is comming along... now start repairing holes and imperfections before u fully prime.. great work
What a difference Joe!Wow! I am beginning to get really excited now it's getting its coat of paint.Thankyou for this.
Amazing! And the sand blasting is a bit like ASMR :P
I was really hoping you would soda blast it or use walnut shells. Sanding is so abrasive and causes alot of pitting in aluminum and metal.
We used glass beads, it was the perfect media for it
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial I'd hate to see you have to do more work because the abrasive did too much pitting.
The media blasting company that did it would know the process they would need to do in order to not damage the aluminum
@@jeremybennett5547 I'm just responding to what I can see as a result of the blasting.
Good afternoon
So awesome! I'm excited to see once the trailer gets the black paint. One more step closer to original look and feel. Great progress!
Very excited seeing the progress getting done watching from South Africa
Really cool that you were able to get both the GMC General and Dorsey trailer in the same shot @ 3:37. Looking great so far.
It's all looking really clean. The best part about the sand blasting is that the trailer is now free of unsightly rust spots and it looks a whole lot nicer.
Awesome...gonna look killer in black n gold
It’s looking great cannot wait until it’s completed ❤
never thought I would be so happy to see flecks of gold paint... this is really coming on greatly
Great to see! Can't wait for that black paint to get sprayed on!
Not sure if this has been mentioned by others. But is it possible the holes on the side door could have been done to setup camera rigging for some shots?
yes, over all the episodes, the must of been many cameras mounts temporally stuck all over the place, that could possibly explain every random grouping of holes, that brings up a question, is there a standard cameras mount, that used in the film/tv that uses bots, needing the making of holes? might even be apart that could added back, to the trailer, too?
Looks a dam sight better sandblasted... :) Keep up the great work Joe, Can't wait to see her painted :)
It looks good looking forward to seeing the black on the trailer
This is the time you wish inanimate objects could talk. The history the trailers been in all the years would be a fun to hear from that perspective.
Amazing, now you can see the door frame, now that white has gone 😊
"Master Blaster runs Bartertown" RIP Tina
I think those dents came from the show.....trailer looking awesome from media blasting
This thing starts comming together
Considering how loose that paint was on there, im surprised it took that long for them to do the work. Either way, it looks soooo much better now. One step at a time 😁❤️
The sandblasting hose nozzle isn't that big and also just because it came off easy in some areas doesn't mean it came of easily in others.
My biggest concern it needs to be epoxyed primed asap , it really needs to go to a professional truck place and then take care of any repairs after at home.
Aluminium needs etch primer, not regular primer. Etch is good on clean steel too, though not essential. The etch primer then gets covered with regular primer. If you use regular primers on aluminium, galvanised steel or some other metals, it’ll flake off later. The rough texture from the blasting will help adhesion, though.
This channal never disapoint👍
Fantastic work 🎉
Are they going to sandblast all that rust underneath as well?
The door hinges and lock mechanisms were probably galvinised originally.
Now is a good time to buy stock in black paint as the trailer gets painted. 🤣
Amazing Job.
Looking sharp!
The trailer is coming along nicely! Can't wait to see it all black again and hooked up to the Fully Restore General! 😁
Nice! Although I wouldn't remove the body filler. Just leave it be 😊
Great to see this leap forward, and we learn yet more about the trailer's history - good spraying technique by the way !
2:04
Hmm. What might that fender be to?
That sandblasting job was massive! I would never have the patience to do that! Congratulations 🎉
I agree with everyone else. Remove the bondo. There is no telling if the surface was prepped properly when it was put down, and it appears to be cheap Bondo brand filler. You wouldn't want it coming up under your new paintjob.
17:00 ASMR continues :D
big transformation excellent video joe thank you
Oh wow! What a massive action - I have never seen anything like that. Another shift towards the goal! All the replaced part can´t be recognised for the original ones - what awesome work, Joe! BTW - the tractor looks fantastic.
Increditable paint removal 😮😮😮😮👀👀👀👍👍👍👍 13:56
Lookin’ good! 🚛
An epic project to be looked back on for future fans. What a journey.
Sharing to push you closer to 100K....!
Appreciate it!
Man this is so cool!!! But I hope to GOD that when you paint it you have the proper facilities not just in the yard! Cheers!!!
Not sure if you are aware but you keep calling all the lights on the trailer marker lights. The lights on the bottom of the trailer are called marker lights. The lights on the top of both the tractor and trailer are called clearance lights. Just letting you know.
Those guys did good, they didn't warp the skin. I was a bit worried about that. Wonder if the dents on the right side were from pulling out beside another trailer and hitting it.
blasting. so satisfying to watch.
Primer is typically formulated to be porous so the top coat can adhere as well as possible. Accordingly, the protection from rusting it offers is better than nothing but very far from ideal.If you selected something that does seal, that would be best for the steel parts since it's outdoors.
You guys are so amazing I love what you do
Shout out to the blasting guys. Not an easy job, and to keep concentrating for 11 hours, hoisting that heavy rig on your shoulder, and wearing that protective gear in the heat. Respect !
Took a big step and it's about time, Awesomeness
Looks great Joe!
When the world needed the Foundation, these blokes are on their way to doing just that
Starting to look lit .
Looking great!! I'd notice that red side fender 🤔🤔 new replica or new original KITT found??
Really enjoyed that
Looks like tremendous progress. I have been watching a aircraft restoration and they use "alaodyne" to treat aluminum before priming and painting but I wonder why, but maybe to keep aluminum from corrosion and better adhesion for primer and paint?
Lovely stuff! It's looking better every time. Fantastic work guys.
Awesome video!! Love your content!!
I find it a bit ironic that the trailer now looks like KITT did after being rebuilt from his acid bath :P
"Going to stay back so we don't get any of that lovely sand in our lungs" - Proceeds to inch closer and closer like an excited kid on Christmas Eve🤣 No WAY the trailer won't be black by years end...it's already eating at you🤣
That body damage may be from the other movies or shows the truck and trailer were also on
MASTER BLASTER !
No debris left behind? Sand, paint, dirt etc all inconsequential?
I do have a question. when the sand blasting team comes back to finish the remain spots on the trailer, are the wheels going to get media blasted at the same time or is that going to be a project for a later date?
Not black yet but a huge difference from the start.... its in good hands.......
To The Knight Rider Historians,
When you look at the crew who sandblasted the trailer and dressing in white, does that remind you of the crew who first working on KITT in the pilot episode?
did they sell it to you as "media blasted"? Because sand blasted sounds too much like a badly crippled surface? I am aware that soda blasting is way more expensive. But worth the price. I hope you'll find a way to get the surface smooth agian. especially the rivets.
Looks like it was soda blasted to me.
They used glass beads, it was the perfect media
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial If its the surface you were looking for to make a smooth surface with effficient effort, then I am happy as well !
From the footage it just looked like a rough, sandblasted surface to me. From your words I assume, that the glass blasted Aluminium has a much smaller grain, that's easy levelled out by the upcoming primer and paint.
May I ask, Why you prefered glass over soda blasting, like they did the first time?
@@genius1a soda blasting leave a residue behind that has to be cleaned off which is extra work and if its not done properly the paint won't adhere..
Soda blasting is a little oldschool now , glass is perfect for this job because it won't create a lot of heat and it won't damage the surface or warp the aluminum.
@@paulreichelt1259 ok, my limited knowledge only applied for normal steel applications on a hobby level. Before I only had sand, dry ice and glass balls on my radar. I had heard from soda blasting here the first time and on the Trailer it looked so well under the chipped paint, that I was really impressed. Seems, like you have to choose the best fitting method out of many, for each given application and there can be side effects, not noted by the amateur eye.
As a body man I will suggest this about the body filler.
If you end up wanting the dents finding them from the show I would suggest removing the filler regardless.
That looks like typical bondo brand filler wich is cheap crap but aside from that never trust someone else’s filler work (you don’t know the prep they did to make the repair and if it was done right). Tear it out to redo it and make sure it’s repaired correctly as well. You don’t want more than about a 1/4” of filler in any area or it will be prone to failing over time
The bondo is hygroscopic wich means it wil absorb moisture, especially now its exposed like that. i agree remove it regardless. Don''t get the aluminium to hot when sanding it out, it wil warp.
The trailer is coming along great. I couldn't help but to notice a fender for a Trans Am leaning by the tree. Any chance KITT needs repair now for some reason? Or just a spare part?
Yay
Why did you primer over the air lines on trailer?
haha exactly!!!
😮 Sand blasting? I thought you were having it sodablasted ?
You don’t want to touch any steel with your bare hands as it can leave oils from your hands and you don’t want it under the paint
Don't know if you're aware that Lampoonery! Made a Knight Rider - Fast and Furious crossover in memory of Paul Walker and Edward Mulhare
Does that kind of blow the theory that the stripes were vinyl? I think it might have been paint.
So what about wrapping it vs paint. Would that be a cheaper option?? Same with the semi, would probably be cheaper to wrap vs paint
First video with my name in the credits woo hoo!!!!!
So….. are you planning on painting the truck and trailer at the same time? Or separately?
It seems to me that to return the semi "to it's former glory" would mean fixing the imperfections like dents.
Definitely not! Those dents are history from its production use. We are restoring the outside to its exact configuration when the cameras stopped rolling in 1986....to include the dents!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Did they do the roof?
R.I.P Tina Turner
This is so fascinating seeing sandblasting at this scale. Do you order up so much sand at the beginning or is it measured by how much was used?
The blasting company calculated how much we would need. It's actually glass beads not sand. They did a fantastic job so far!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial when it's done you could run a tiller across the yard where the glass bead is to get it all mixed in, then rake in grass seed to grow that patch into some very nice grass.