Tuesday, April 29, 2008

More pictures of the boot repairs

Here are some more shots of the rust repairs -

After cleaning the boot with the sponge, I managed to clean off all of the rust using a wire brush on the end of a power drill:





I removed the two bungs from the boot and had a look underneath them. From the top of the boot, there was a little bit of rust around the edges, so I knew there would probably be some underneath the boot as well. So I had to drop the exhaust and wire brush the holes from underneath:







After preparing all of the surfaces, I sprayed degreaser over all of the bare surfaces, and allowed it to dry. Next I applied the POR15 metal preparation goop and let that sit for 15 minutes. The instructions said to hose it off, but instead I just used a wet cloth and mopped it off. I didn't want to fill the sides up again with water...

After the water, I towelled off the excess water then uesd a heat gun to dry the excess water. Once it was all dry, I painted the brushed areas and the bottoms of the bits behind the wheels.



Once I've done this to all the rust on the car, I'll get some white paint and cover the black bits. Don't want the car looking like a cow....

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