Got the rust repaired and sealed off the repair with seam sealerI still need to wipe it down and coat with Chassis Black to finish it, but that will have to wait.
Unfortunately, the weather is not cooperating with my plans this weekend and I will have to delay putting the car in 2K until the following weekend. With any amount of luck. next weekend I will be posting photos of the car all one color!
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Ack! Found rust!
Just finished making a quick, surprise repair. I decided to do a little cleaning out of the spare tire well when taking a break from sanding. Started to dig out the old seam sealer and gunk when my screwdriver went through.
After cleaning it up, I needed a patch on the underside at the seam roughly 2.5" wide and about 6" long. Then a second patch about 1.5" square on the under side of the quarter panel where it lined up with the other seam.
Overall, a pretty easy repair, but tough on the knees and back leaning over the back of the car to work in the spare tire well. Also, welding over your head is never any fun. I just need a small dab of filler to make it smooth and it will be good to go.
Also hoping that the weather will clear up for this weekend, or I'm going to have to push out 2k application until the next weekend! Grrr!
After cleaning it up, I needed a patch on the underside at the seam roughly 2.5" wide and about 6" long. Then a second patch about 1.5" square on the under side of the quarter panel where it lined up with the other seam.
Overall, a pretty easy repair, but tough on the knees and back leaning over the back of the car to work in the spare tire well. Also, welding over your head is never any fun. I just need a small dab of filler to make it smooth and it will be good to go.
Also hoping that the weather will clear up for this weekend, or I'm going to have to push out 2k application until the next weekend! Grrr!
Thursday, May 11, 2017
10 Days and counting...
While it has been a couple months since my last update, work continues. The underside of the hood has been sanded, cleaned up and painted with Eastwood Chassis Black. I opted to do this with a foam brush with the hood off. I also used Eastwood's Internal Frame Coating primer to prime between the two layers of the hood as best as I could. This product certainly makes it easier.
Because I forgot that I needed to drill holes out in the door jambs and the doors for the addition of vacuum operated locks and power windows, I went ahead and pulled the doors off to do so. While I had the off, I also remembered that I needed to clean up the seams of the doors and the bottoms of the doors, both of which had very light surface rust, or rust staining bleeding out from under the old, cracked seam sealer.
After a couple hours of wire-wheeling, I had everything looking beautiful. But, I know that if I leave the seams as they are, it won't take long before rust staining occurs at the seams again. While the seams were beautiful, I decided to apply seam sealer all the way around the perimeter of the doors. It definitely won't look as nice, but I'm hoping it will extend the life of the work I've put in.
I also took time to liberally spray the inside of the door at the seams with a rust converter primer, again in the hopes that it will help extend the time it will take for rust to rear it's ugly head.
At this point I'm almost finished with the sanding. Just have the front passenger door area and the passenger side rocker to complete. A couple small items to remove and then I can start to tape things off. Weather permitting, Sunday next week...
Stay tuned, we're getting close now!
Because I forgot that I needed to drill holes out in the door jambs and the doors for the addition of vacuum operated locks and power windows, I went ahead and pulled the doors off to do so. While I had the off, I also remembered that I needed to clean up the seams of the doors and the bottoms of the doors, both of which had very light surface rust, or rust staining bleeding out from under the old, cracked seam sealer.
After a couple hours of wire-wheeling, I had everything looking beautiful. But, I know that if I leave the seams as they are, it won't take long before rust staining occurs at the seams again. While the seams were beautiful, I decided to apply seam sealer all the way around the perimeter of the doors. It definitely won't look as nice, but I'm hoping it will extend the life of the work I've put in.
I also took time to liberally spray the inside of the door at the seams with a rust converter primer, again in the hopes that it will help extend the time it will take for rust to rear it's ugly head.
At this point I'm almost finished with the sanding. Just have the front passenger door area and the passenger side rocker to complete. A couple small items to remove and then I can start to tape things off. Weather permitting, Sunday next week...
Stay tuned, we're getting close now!
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