Taking the plunge here. This Saturday I'll have a handful of buddies over and we will pull off the body + remove the engine.
The idea is to prepare body and skate as much as possible for the damper weather here.
For the skate I figure:
Scrape off what looks like stock padding/sound proofing in the front footwells
Shop vacuum
Hit with detergent and brush scrub
Rince with a high pressure spray
POR-15 semi-gloss black everything.
For the body I figure:
Pull doors
Pull windows
Throughly clean with detergent
I thinking of POR-15 light gray under the dash (and anything not covered by carpeting)
POR-15 the front trunk. (I'll be painting body-quality the engine bay)
Is there anything I should do to the seams?
The heater channels... do people sprat POR-15 in there? How?
What about areas where the original paint seems reasonable? Do I sand a bit and epoxy, primer, or :?:
In a nutshell, once I have the three components split... are there things I should think of to weatherproof or other?
The idea is to prepare body and skate as much as possible for the damper weather here.
For the skate I figure:
Scrape off what looks like stock padding/sound proofing in the front footwells
Shop vacuum
Hit with detergent and brush scrub
Rince with a high pressure spray
POR-15 semi-gloss black everything.
For the body I figure:
Pull doors
Pull windows
Throughly clean with detergent
I thinking of POR-15 light gray under the dash (and anything not covered by carpeting)
POR-15 the front trunk. (I'll be painting body-quality the engine bay)
Is there anything I should do to the seams?
The heater channels... do people sprat POR-15 in there? How?
What about areas where the original paint seems reasonable? Do I sand a bit and epoxy, primer, or :?:
In a nutshell, once I have the three components split... are there things I should think of to weatherproof or other?