Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
Location: Drives a Tractor
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Right after another of me engine nightmares it looks like its gonna be another week till its finished, i am having my car delivered back to me tomoz, enginless, i want to clean and re-spray the engine bay, suspension turrets need doing, chassie legs, battery tray etc, any tips, the battery tray is my main concern cos it rusty, what do i use to paint over this, can i get something to kill the rust off then what do i paint it with before applying primer paint and laquer?????
Any tips would be helpfull cheers
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blackula
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Registered: 26th Apr 03
Location: Cheshire
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Parts like battery tray could be blasted. Leaking batteries can of course of avoided, hard to get at rust, can be converted with chemicals, it converts rust to a another chemical from iron oxide. Etching primers on perfect panels totally rust free is what you want. Daubing on anti rust primers is a bodge. I've used rust converters , zinc primers, wax-oyl on and over rust and rust is one hard bastard.
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Ware, Hertfordshire
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buy a new battery tray from vauxhall, they are only like 10 quid.
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Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
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mine is like welded in though its an m-reg gsi
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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fair enough, mine is too, my bros one is a bolt in jobbie though. use the dremmel on it, paint it in crust then black hammerite etc.. cant see it anyway
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Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
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am i ok to sand down the suspension turrets and paint them, do i need to use special paint or do i just paint it like any normal panel
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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well i just painted my engine bay, did it in anthracite hammerite, just painted straight over the top, well thinking about it think i sanded it a little
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