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[Rockoz]

Hi Marty

 

Im just guessing, but is the Rust Blast a phosphoric acid mix similar to all the other rust convertors on the market?

Ive got close to 20 litres of phos acid, and have used it beside a couple of the other commercial ones and I cant see the difference so far.

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[sibhs]

Hi Marty

 

Im just guessing, but is the Rust Blast a phosphoric acid mix similar to all the other rust convertors on the market?

Ive got close to 20 litres of phos acid, and have used it beside a couple of the other commercial ones and I cant see the difference so far.

 

Cheers

 

Rob

Hi Rob, Zinc Phosphate based so I'd say similar.  I don't think it matters what brand you use. 

 

Marty

[sibhs]

I finally stripped down the K Frame and made a bit of a mess on the driveway. I high pressure cleaned it sending lumps of grease and dirt in all directions which ended up on my boots and in the house carpet. Incredible Sally stayed calm and helped me attempt a bit of carpet cleaning.

 

The front of the frame has copped a hit and curled over the lip so I'll have to check it all carefully for anything out of alignment.

 

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[sibhs]

It's time to cut out the boot rust.

The back end is very rusty and has had another boot floor grafted in many years ago. It has been overlapped and fully oxy welded along the front edge creating a lot of grinding off.

I'll be fitting rares boot floors, tyre well, rear beaver and both lower quarters.

 

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Hows this wasp nest I found deep up in the chassis. I didn't see it at first but after some banging it dropped down into view.

 

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Marty

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[claysummers]

Hoeing in to it Marty


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[purrlx]

A big job ahead there, i'm sure it will come out nice. It gets a bit scary when you cut it all out and look at it and go crap what have I done.

[jd lj]

That was a nasty looking rear end there Marty. However whether it's only got a bit of rust or a lot it all has to come off and be replaced. Mine was nowhere near as rusty as that but almost all of tgose panels have needed replacement. I have a growing pile of rusted or dinged up panels.

[S pack]

Hey Marty got your work cut out for ya there.

I noticed that K frame has the outrigger bushes installed the correct way. 

[Ice]

Thats some serious rust you got growing in there Marty
but im sure it will be as rust free as possible when you're done

[grumpy xu1]

It doesn't look to bad, now that you have removed the last guys poor repairs. We know who will be spending a day on the sand blaster now, that's for sure. But then you will have nice clean metal to start with.

[Indy Orange]

Hope you've got loose stuff tucked away or tied down Sibhs?

[sibhs]

Hoeing in to it Marty


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Hey Clay, At first I was like I'll take one bit off at a time and fit new before moving on. But, Nah! Jumping straight in and hopefully it all falls into place.

 

A big job ahead there, i'm sure it will come out nice. It gets a bit scary when you cut it all out and look at it and go crap what have I done.

Hi purrix, Scary, but I'm growing in confidence after some of the other bits i've fixed. Gotta get back to ground zero before starting to put it all together.

 

That was a nasty looking rear end there Marty. However whether it's only got a bit of rust or a lot it all has to come off and be replaced. Mine was nowhere near as rusty as that but almost all of tgose panels have needed replacement. I have a growing pile of rusted or dinged up panels.

Hi James, There's a few bits I'll have to make to fill in the missing blanks, looking forward to getting the rear end done.

 

Hey Marty got your work cut out for ya there.

I noticed that K frame has the outrigger bushes installed the correct way. 

Dam you Dave, I was hoping you wouldn't notice, I even took a few picks as I pulled them out but wasn't going to let you see them. Haha

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[sibhs]

 

Thats some serious rust you got growing in there Marty
but im sure it will be as rust free as possible when you're done

Hi Gene, dam right there is. At least the chassis looks good so something solid to start with.

 

It doesn't look to bad, now that you have removed the last guys poor repairs. We know who will be spending a day on the sand blaster now, that's for sure. But then you will have nice clean metal to start with.

Hi Gary, I like your optimism. I'm cleaning up next to repairs and once repaired and on the rotisserie I'll sand blast it all. The chassis internals etc will be cleaned and rust preventative applied before welding startes.

 

Hope you've got loose stuff tucked away or tied down Sibhs?

Hi Paul, yes, did a tip run yesterday getting rid of some loose stuff around the house. For those that don't know, we are expecting a once in 10 year storm to hit WA tonight so we're battening down the hatches. I've kept all my rust and old GTR stuff lying around for reference.

 

Marty

[sibhs]

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Unfortunately I couldn't cut off that metal due to replacement pieces not going that far forward.

 

Marty

[claysummers]

Or you could have fabricated a section to fill the gap maybe...
What ever works isn’t it?


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[sibhs]

Decided to cut out a bit of the rear floor to remove chassis dents and clean inside of rails.

There were also a few dents in floor pan I heated up and knocked back into position.

 

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I think this car did a bit of rally driving? Unofficially.

 

Marty

[Shadow17]

Nice work as usual it is going to be perfect by the time you finish.

 

 

James

[Heath]

This is an amazing build thread, Marty. Just read it start-to-finish.

 

Very inspiring and informative.

 

Plus, you couldn't have selected a better paint & trim combo for the car. Spectacular.

[sibhs]

This is an amazing build thread, Marty. Just read it start-to-finish.

 

Very inspiring and informative.

 

Plus, you couldn't have selected a better paint & trim combo for the car. Spectacular.

Hi Heath, glad your getting something out of this thread. I know you love the modified builds so thought this might be a bit boring.

Cheers

Marty

 

 

The rear driver floor had a bit of rust which I was going to cut and patch but again decided to fit a new floor from Rares. Exposing the internals of the chassis is always a bonus, look at all this crap that could of stayed inside. I'm going to run hose and scrapey thingy through to boot opening and make sure there's no more shit in there either.

 

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[sibhs]

There's been a heap of cleaning up in the boot. Firstly scraping that horrible bitumen crap that people used to spread everywhere. Here it was used to help hide the dual layer boot floor.

 

Secondly paint stripper and scraping, then a hit with nylon paint stripper wheel, another round of Coopers paint stripper and then another go with the nylon wheel.

 

Once I have this on rotisserie I'll sand blast the remaining stuff.

 

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Keeping all covered up against the crap that's about to fly.

 

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Marty

[madtoranajzedded]

Your floor looks a little like mine atm 😂

When i had mine on the rotisserie there was heaps of
dirt coming out of rails at front using compressor to
blow it out.took bloody ages to get most out.still
managed a little bit in the paint lol when i primed
the undercarriage ..

Your going well mate.have you sourced the inner beaver
panel bro or you going to fab one up yourself..

[sibhs]

Your floor looks a little like mine atm

When i had mine on the rotisserie there was heaps of
dirt coming out of rails at front using compressor to
blow it out.took bloody ages to get most out.still
managed a little bit in the paint lol when i primed
the undercarriage ..

Your going well mate.have you sourced the inner beaver
panel bro or you going to fab one up yourself..

Good spot Maz, the inner beaver is 40% stuffed. Looking at finding second hand if it can happen quickly otherwise I'm keen to try make a new one.

Marty

[308 Sunbird]

Great work Marty-very motivating.