Will POR-15 build up enough for rejoining the two halves of sheet into
one? I suspect that it wants to be a bearing piece not just cosmetic.
From the muck I ground up while dealing with the rust, I think after
one fender bender or trunk crunch, it was coated with spray
undercoating. Not that it helped. It just made is sticky.
On Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at 07:53 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
POR15 should be your new best friend. Check out their website, they
have a variety of good stuff over there. You could either just glob
the paint on if the holes are really tiny and the structure of the
metal is not compromised or use it with some fiberglass matte to build
up strength. They also make a putty version of the stuff for filling
larger areas.
I used it to seal a snowmobile gas tank a couple years ago and its
been just great. I also used it on a lawnmower deck last spring. I
haven't mowed with that yet but after a winter of sitting out in the
snow none of the rust has come back. I just wirebrushed the worst of
the rust off, use the 2 treatment chemicals and just brushed on the
paint.
Anywhere its going to be exposed to sunlight you need to topcoat but
in a trunk you'd be okay.
Be aware also that most normal primer is porus so rust will develop
under it just as fast or faster than baremetal.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:47:48 -0700
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Jim Cathey is my new best friend. Curse Jim.
When he came over a few weeks ago, he was nice enough to want to check
Gump's trunk. We found that there was a lake under the rubber and
trunk liner. Lots of rusty looking stuff. Thought I would wait until
summer when it got hot and dry to tackle that.
Then I decided I ought to look at it further, so today I pulled the
liner out and sopped up the water. Really nasty looking rust staining
everywhere. Out comes the wire wheel and away I go attacking the
dynamat like stuff as well as the gooey rubbery coating. All the way
down to bare painted metal or rust.
Found a Bunch of pin holes as well as a few larger, though none bigger
than a dime. There is a largish black plastic hose that runs from
starboard to port in a channel. Guess where the most rust through is.
YEP! right there it is mostly rusted all the way through and the tanks
seems to just hang from a few paper thin bits of metal.
First question -
What is the best or quickest method to plug the little holes? I have
already used the rust to black primer spray and thought about maybe
Bondo or an epoxy coating, then some bedliner for protection.
Second question -
How in creation do I deal with the rusted through bit to join the stern
back to the rest of the car? Can I have a panel made with the channel
and weld that in? It would cover the access to the tank sender
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
1987 300SDL - POS - DOA
The FSM would drive a Diesel Benz
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1995 E300D - Cleo
1987 300SDL - POS - DOA
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