A Little Progress

Spent a few hours today working on things. I degreased the gearbox mounting bracket, brake servo and servo mounting bracket. They were all filthy. Once all the gunk was taken off the parts, one of the brake linkage arms actually turned out to be made of brass.

Also cleaned the Wishbones. The wishbones were only fitted last year when I had new balljoints fitted and added Polybushes to them. One of the wishbones was brand new. Both have started to rust up and the new arm is almost as bad as the old one. Clearly the stock powdercoat is rubbish!

All parts were then cleaned up and any rust taken back to the bare metal. Everything was then well keyed with some coarse sandpaper and washed prior to treating with POR15 Metal Ready. I had time to get a base coat of POR15 Rust Prevention paint on the Gearbox bracket and the back of the brake servo. Everything else will have to wait to later in the week.

All the parts are now on their second coat of POR15 rust prevention paint. I flatted down the first coat which has helped even up some of the surface imperfections ans should give a good key for the second coat. Once that’s had time to cure I’ll paint them up with some chassis coat black.