Thread: New Project...

Hi All,

First job today - sand/clean/paint the rear prop-shaft. Before:


Cleaned:


Painted (first coat):


I cleaned-up the prop-shaft bolts/nuts at the same time. Before:


After:


Next job was to clean the passenger side front hub. I have had 3 sessions at this - slowly removing 50+ years of grime. Before:


After cleaning:



And first coat of paint:


And finally - first coat of paint for the drivers side seat base/bracket:


The next jobs in line are:
Drivers Side Front Hub
Front Prop Shaft
Instrument Panel
Hand Brake Drum (still can't get the bugger off)

That's it for today!

Hi All,

First job - clean up the drivers side front hub. Before:



Cleaned:



Painted first coat:



Next job - clean-up the passenger side brake bits. Before:


After:


Drivers side brake bits. Before:


After:


Next - tidy up the nuts from the hand brake drum. Before:


After:


Next - tidy up one of the front flexible brake lines -> chassis bits. Before:


After:


Lastly - tidy up some bolts/nuts for the front bump stops. Before:


After:


Somehow I keep finding little jobs to do!!!

I think that I have replacement drum springs - but I cleaned-up the old ones just in case. Cheers.

Hi, nice job on cleaning/ painting parts. Can you please advise on how you cleaned all the parts especially bolts and nuts.
Cheers
Ron

Hi Ron,

I purchased a cheap bench grinder from Bunnings - Ozito, I think that it was $40. The grinder has a wire wheel at one end and a stone wheel at the other. Naturally I am using the wire wheel.

I use gloves, a pair of needle nose pliers and lots of patience to clean each nut / bolt / washer individually. Depending on the size of the nut - you simply hold it in your hands - if it is small, then I use the pliers but very gently. I tend to put hold washers with the needle nose pliers - over the end of one of the arms. If the nut is very small I tend to leave the nut on an actual bolt - and hold it that way.

I had tried using chemicals like - petrol, WD40, turps, metho, degreaser - but nothing else seemed to work as well as the wire wheel on the bench grinder.

The good thing (strangely) about the Ozito is that it is cheap and not very powerful, it seems to have just enough oomph to remove the crap and not damage the actual surface.

When it comes to cleaning larger items I use an electric drill and these -


I don't use the blue type anymore because I found that they don't last very long, the red wheel lasts much longer. You can get these at Bunnings and Mitre 10.

Remember to tag and bag what the nuts/bolts/washers are for - I find the zip lock bags from the super market are fantastic for this.

And any steel parts it is a good idea to paint straight away - at least with an etch primer, as you would be surprised how quickly the surface rust comes marching back!

A lot of people use sand blasting for large items - I don't know enough about this, but make sure that if you do take it to a sand blaster they know their stuff. Different metals (steel / aluminium) require different media and you can damage aluminium if the wrong media is used..

Another method for larger parts is a molasses solution (there are multiple threads on here about this). Molasses is good for getting into the hard to get at nooks and crannies, but you also need time to let it do it's stuff. Again - remember to paint straight away or the surface rust comes running back quite quickly.

I hope that this helps - the biggest thing that you need is patience!!

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

... Molasses is good for getting into the hard to get at nooks and crannies, but you also need time to let it do it's stuff. Again - remember to paint straight away or the surface rust comes running back quite quickly.

I put small parts in a purse I made out of some shade-cloth and leave it suspended in the molasses solution. if you paint it with Ranex when it comes out, the rust never comes back.

It might be a good idea to replace the nyloc nuts on the hand-brake drum Ghostie - I had an embarrassing break-down in the middle of nowhere once because I re-used a nyloc - Paddock has them at a very good price,

Cheers Charlie

Having patience is an understatement! Don't know how you do it!! I want my projects done NOW, so I can use them! Keep going with this tho, its looking great and will look fantastic once done.... So, a trailer to carry it behind White Lightning will be the next project..?

Hi All,

Here is an update on the work done yesterday. Unfortunately today is chores day (firewood mainly) so not much will happen today. But yesterday -

Removed the 3 final fixtures from the instrument panel. I had been stuck with 2 of them - and they simply had screw on "knobs" (thanks for the tip Grommit). I simply had to hold the shaft with a pair of pliers and then un-screw the knob.. So all fixtures now removed..

Front/Back - BEFORE:



Front/Back - AFTER:



I then had a look at all of the components that hold the spare wheel on the bonnet. Before:


And after:


I have clear coated the washers, brackets and bolts - let's see how that works in stopping the rust..

Off to chainsaw!

Hi All,

Not a huge amount done yesterday - still doing odd jobs around the house, which I guess happens to all of us!

I cleaned-up the rubber stops that go on the bonnet - and gave them multiple coats with a tyre shine product... They came up so-so:


Drivers seat bracket - painted (2 coats):


Instrument panel painted - back/front:



I am stuck trying to get out the clutch slave cylinder - but I will post a separate thread about that!