[Healeys] painting engine bay

[BJ8 Healeys]

I have used silicone fluid for 15 years, so have had ample opportunity to get it onto surfaces where it shouldn't be.  When I painted my engine bay, I had a hell of a time getting rid of the fisheyes.  Even after stripping some areas to bare metal, then sanding/cleaning with every solvent known to man/metal prepping multiple times, I still got some degree of fisheyes.  
Silicone fluid is great and I wouldn't go back to DOT3/4, but it's really persistent on surfaces and a pain when it comes time to paint again.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  


---- "Freese wrote: 
> Bill,
> I think you are exactly right. Left over silicone brake fluid is still
> present. I haven't used the stuff in 15 or 20 years. But I did remove
> the brake lines for the engine bay paint, so there could have been some
> drops.
> I did not use a normal PrepSol type of cleaner. I used Simple Green,
> Acetone, and TSP.
>  The brake fluid cannister bracket is particularly bad with fish eye and
> on that I wire brushed to bare metal then Eastwood red primer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken Freese
> 65 BJ8