[Shop-talk] Painting inside a chassis

[Gerald Brazil]

Don't worry about frame rust. British cars throw so much oil everything is
naturally rust proofed ;-)

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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Painting inside a chassis

At 11:32 PM 1/3/2012, ejrussell at mebtel.net wrote:

 >Seeking opinions about painting the chassis of my MGA. The chassis is box
>sections and of course the inside never received any rust-proofing/paint
etc in  >1960. As I am finishing up the repairs needed I would like to get
something  >inside to preserve it for the next 50 years.

Eric,

Did you clean out the inside of the box chassis?

When I was redoing the box chassis on my Bricklin, I found the best way to
clean the inside was to cut the a couple of feed of a cheap plumbers snake
chuck it in a drill, slide the head into the chassis, turn the drill on, and
let the head bead the inside of the box channel up.  Did a good job on
breaking the rust up.  Then Vac.
and blew the trash out of the boxes.

I tried to use an undercoating gun and spray the insided of the chassis but
didn't have much luck with that.  I ended up pouring paint into the chassis
and tying a sock on the end of a long piece of brake tubing and using  that
as a paint brush.

I don't remember weither I used Rustoleium or Por15.  I did use both on the
chassis and parts.

John

John T. Blair  WA4OHZ     email:  jblair1948 at cox.net
Va. Beach, Va
Phone:  (757) 495-8229

           48 TR1800    48 #4 Midget    65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1106)
      75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887)    77 Spitfire    71 Saab Sonett III
                        65 Rambler Classic

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