Back to the Body
Now that the mechanical bits and pieces are more or less done (spare the details), we decided that it was time to get back onto getting the body ready for painting. It’s been quite some time since we did any work on the body, which is a good thing. This has given the body plenty of time to settle down and let any rust spots that we may have missed, reemerge. As it happens, we have only found one such spot, the passenger side wheel arch.
We ground off any repairs that we had done in the area and dug out the rust. There wasn’t much rust and we were be able to bronze fill the holes. With that minor rust spot repaired, we moved onto sealing all of the “hard-to-reach” places. We usually use fish-o-lean to do this, but we decided to use a product by the same guys that make POR-15. The new product is called SW-2 Oil. We were able to fill all of the cavities in the rear guards, the sills and a few other places. This should hopefully slow/stop anymore rust (fingers crossed).
We went over the roof and C-pillars to see if we were happy with the repairs that we had done. There were a couple of spots that needed a little fine tuning, but aside from that, we were happy with the work. So, we decided that it was time to put on the high-fill. Dad only painted the roof and C-pillars. He gave it a good thick coat and it looks fantastic. Whilst the paint was still wet, the reflection in the roof was awesome. We are both very happy with the results.