April 15, 2011

This week I was able to get more time to focus some energy toward the car. I started by getting a good idea of how much surface rust was in the engine bay, then moved right on to figuring out just how much was EVERYWHERE! I climbed into the engine bay and got a couple sweeps with the sandpaper in. After realizing I wanted to show the difference I grabbed my camera to capture that. Here is what that picture looked like:



So I went hard to work, using either the 220 or 200 grit sandpaper I had with me and it started to come around:





I was able to get a large section started with the time I had available to do it. I also started to hit it with the 400 grit:




To be honest, I became quite irritated at getting a portion done, then spending a good 10 minutes washing my hands just to take a couple pictures and get right back at it again. So, I just decided there was plenty of pictures and the viewers would have a really good idea of the change. That being said, I went ahead and finished sanding, then primed the area with the black primer I bought the other day.




Now, in that last picture posted, you will see a nice brown color toward the bottom of the frame. I had went and sanded a decent portion of that but wanted to see what I was working on when I went to prime it as well. And this is what I found on the frame when I lifted it to do this:




Much more surface rust. After putting my hands into sanding for a good three hours, I decided to call it a day. I'm going to head the advice from a NICO user to slap a soft wire brush onto a drill, and get down to the bare metal. If nothing else it'll save my shoulders from that sore feeling I had this time.