07-05-2020, 10:49 PM
Right folks, been really busy with getting the front end ready for the engine [emoji3061] I never want to be stripping under-seal from arches ever again! But the mains thing is, the job is DONE!!!
It appeared to me that someone had undersealed over the rust, so I made it essential to strip everything down to bare metal and to treat whatever rust may be there..
Some before’s prior to stripping the under-seal.
As you can see its not a pretty sight, the car was rode without arch liners well before I bought it, ( 4 years ago ) and then had lay abandoned outside for 2 years so I wasn’t expecting any less.
Looking a little better with the under-seal stripped off, and a good twist knot wire wheeling overall followed by some ‘Hammerite Rust Remover Gel’, wash that off and its good for painting once fully dried! ( I used an air line to blow out any water that may been laying within the creases.
Full front end treated, prepared and ready for some etch’ing primer! The stage I thought I would never see lol [emoji1787]
Primer [emoji736] (2/3 coats)
Next up was to seam seal, I would say this is the most important part of redoing any area of your cars chassis etc.
I spent a little less time being neat on the arches as these areas wont be seen. Will tidy up with paint and waxoyl anyways [emoji3526]!
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It appeared to me that someone had undersealed over the rust, so I made it essential to strip everything down to bare metal and to treat whatever rust may be there..
Some before’s prior to stripping the under-seal.
As you can see its not a pretty sight, the car was rode without arch liners well before I bought it, ( 4 years ago ) and then had lay abandoned outside for 2 years so I wasn’t expecting any less.
Looking a little better with the under-seal stripped off, and a good twist knot wire wheeling overall followed by some ‘Hammerite Rust Remover Gel’, wash that off and its good for painting once fully dried! ( I used an air line to blow out any water that may been laying within the creases.
Full front end treated, prepared and ready for some etch’ing primer! The stage I thought I would never see lol [emoji1787]
Primer [emoji736] (2/3 coats)
Next up was to seam seal, I would say this is the most important part of redoing any area of your cars chassis etc.
I spent a little less time being neat on the arches as these areas wont be seen. Will tidy up with paint and waxoyl anyways [emoji3526]!
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