clowo16v
05-06-2006, 18:09
As you can see in this pic
http://www.williamsclio.co.uk/forum/files/dscf1858_149.jpg
the drivers side sill on my car was fairly rusty. I noticed it ages ago and painted it with that hammerite straight to rust but it still came through. Anyway yesterday I got cracking with the restoration. No pics of this but anyway
1) Get heatgun out and start scraping all the anti chip stuff off, but heatgun blew up
2) Stick wire wheel on grinder and finish removing the underseal and all the surface rust. Peasantly suprised to find that there's only 2 tiny holes in the sill so it won't need to be replaced
3) Wait for shit english weather to stop pissin down then get welder out and plate the holes up.
4) Grind welds down, then sand the whole sill with 120 grit to give the paint something to bite to
5) Apply 5 coats of Hammerite rust stopper. Mmmm Brown
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair002.jpg
Moving onto today
6) Apply 5 coats of Zinc 182 (cool name eh) grey primer.
7) Wait to dry then apply filler to the small marks that appear
8) Sand filler, then sand all the paint down with 500 grit to get rid of the brush marks
9) Mask off and apply copious amounts of high build primer
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair003.jpg
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair004.jpg
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair005.jpg
10) 120 grit the whole inner wing, panel wipe in then get hammerite black rust beater out and paint the entire inner wing black.
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair006.jpg
Thats where i'm upto at the minute. Looks OK and should be good painted body colour and smooth.
Matt
http://www.williamsclio.co.uk/forum/files/dscf1858_149.jpg
the drivers side sill on my car was fairly rusty. I noticed it ages ago and painted it with that hammerite straight to rust but it still came through. Anyway yesterday I got cracking with the restoration. No pics of this but anyway
1) Get heatgun out and start scraping all the anti chip stuff off, but heatgun blew up
2) Stick wire wheel on grinder and finish removing the underseal and all the surface rust. Peasantly suprised to find that there's only 2 tiny holes in the sill so it won't need to be replaced
3) Wait for shit english weather to stop pissin down then get welder out and plate the holes up.
4) Grind welds down, then sand the whole sill with 120 grit to give the paint something to bite to
5) Apply 5 coats of Hammerite rust stopper. Mmmm Brown
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair002.jpg
Moving onto today
6) Apply 5 coats of Zinc 182 (cool name eh) grey primer.
7) Wait to dry then apply filler to the small marks that appear
8) Sand filler, then sand all the paint down with 500 grit to get rid of the brush marks
9) Mask off and apply copious amounts of high build primer
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair003.jpg
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair004.jpg
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair005.jpg
10) 120 grit the whole inner wing, panel wipe in then get hammerite black rust beater out and paint the entire inner wing black.
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/clowo16v-SillRepair006.jpg
Thats where i'm upto at the minute. Looks OK and should be good painted body colour and smooth.
Matt