Battery-area surprise! - Page 4

MUSSBERGER · 08-11-2009, 04:36 PM

I for one am humbled by your efforts. Fantastic job.

amjf088 · 10-29-2009, 07:22 PM

I was expecting to get the thing all back together for the end of the summer, but then I noticed the CV boots were split (I had left the axles hanging with the control arms only after removing the spring plates... the angle was too much for the old boots I guess...).

Anyway, this pretty much put paid to getting the car back together for the fall driving season and I just decided to carry on with the suspension re-fresh scheduled for the winter.

I pulled all the front and rear suspension, rear bumper, oil tank, oil lines etc. Aside from the suspension work, I will fix up the oil lines which have been partially crushed at some point in time.

Once everything was off I decided to paint the wheel wells - to match the front chassis painting.

This is a hopelessly pointless job, made even more stupid by the extreme amount of work required to properly clean and prep those surfaces.

I have just finished the wheel wells off and they do look good:

I wanted to see how the newly-plated springplate would look against the Prussian blue...

I have a pile of parts to re-plate and a bunch to have powder coated. The parts that need to be powder coated have to be blasted. In the past, this has been more expensive than the powder coating itself. So, I've kind-of-sort-of-pretty-much decided to blast all the parts myself using glass media and a siphon blasting gun. I've done one control arm and it took the better part of a $9 bag of media... Wow, this is going to take a while...

amjf088 · 11-04-2009, 08:26 PM

I have just done the banana arm bushings and wheel bearings. I put the photos etc. in a seperate thread so that if someone is ever searching on that topic, it will more likely be found:

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...ml#post7047501

amjf088 · 11-16-2009, 02:22 AM

I am creeping steadily forward. As indicated above, I installed the new bushings and wheel bearings in the banana arms:

Then, I re-booted the drive axles. I could detect no play at all in the axles and the balls and race-ways looked clear of any pitting, discoloration or other damage, so I think it was reasonable to go this route rather than buy new axles or CV joints at this stage.

Other than that I have been slowly stripping the paint off things like the control arms and cleaning parts to be re-plated. Tedious work...

I also have painted the floor pan (Another senseless endeavor.) The hardest part was scrubbing and prepping the pan - only hard because I did it lying on my back on a cold concrete floor. There were various scrapes and nicks in the PVC coating that I "patched" with seam sealer. For the paint, I used a Glasurit single stage (i.e. 22-Line) color that was reasonably close-ish to the Prussian blue tone. The reason why I went this route was that spraying base/clear on the pan was not going to be all that practical unless I could raise the car even more. So, instead I used a urethane-safe paint roller... Hence the need to use a solid color instead of the metallic. Since the PVC has texture, you can't tell the difference between roller and spray application. I mixed the paint and hardener just as I would for spraying, except left out the small amount of reducer (thinner). I guess ants, caterpillars and worms will really dig my car...

08-11-2009, 04:36 PM	#46
MUSSBERGER Addict Rennlist Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Close to the edge of Middletown, NJ Posts: 5,679	I for one am humbled by your efforts. Fantastic job. __________________ 1981SC black metallic,no sunroof, departed.(bonehead move) 2004 Cayenne, base, departed. 2005 987S Boxster, guards red, Stuttgart built, departed. 1978 SC E track car. 2005 997 black, pollen magnet. Allied products.......... 1998 540i 1983 380SL 50k Jewel (Mom's from Cali) 2006 Titan 2005 Wrangler

10-29-2009, 07:22 PM	#47
amjf088 Addict Rennlist Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,799	I was expecting to get the thing all back together for the end of the summer, but then I noticed the CV boots were split (I had left the axles hanging with the control arms only after removing the spring plates... the angle was too much for the old boots I guess...). Anyway, this pretty much put paid to getting the car back together for the fall driving season and I just decided to carry on with the suspension re-fresh scheduled for the winter. I pulled all the front and rear suspension, rear bumper, oil tank, oil lines etc. Aside from the suspension work, I will fix up the oil lines which have been partially crushed at some point in time. Once everything was off I decided to paint the wheel wells - to match the front chassis painting. This is a hopelessly pointless job, made even more stupid by the extreme amount of work required to properly clean and prep those surfaces. I have just finished the wheel wells off and they do look good: I wanted to see how the newly-plated springplate would look against the Prussian blue... I have a pile of parts to re-plate and a bunch to have powder coated. The parts that need to be powder coated have to be blasted. In the past, this has been more expensive than the powder coating itself. So, I've kind-of-sort-of-pretty-much decided to blast all the parts myself using glass media and a siphon blasting gun. I've done one control arm and it took the better part of a $9 bag of media... Wow, this is going to take a while... __________________ 1985 911 Carrera: The fun car 1987 944 S: The project car 2002 Subaru WRX: The daily car Visit My P-Car Projects!

11-04-2009, 08:26 PM	#48
amjf088 Addict Rennlist Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,799	I have just done the banana arm bushings and wheel bearings. I put the photos etc. in a seperate thread so that if someone is ever searching on that topic, it will more likely be found: http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...ml#post7047501 __________________ 1985 911 Carrera: The fun car 1987 944 S: The project car 2002 Subaru WRX: The daily car Visit My P-Car Projects!

11-16-2009, 02:22 AM	#49
amjf088 Addict Rennlist Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,799	I am creeping steadily forward. As indicated above, I installed the new bushings and wheel bearings in the banana arms: Then, I re-booted the drive axles. I could detect no play at all in the axles and the balls and race-ways looked clear of any pitting, discoloration or other damage, so I think it was reasonable to go this route rather than buy new axles or CV joints at this stage. Other than that I have been slowly stripping the paint off things like the control arms and cleaning parts to be re-plated. Tedious work... I also have painted the floor pan (Another senseless endeavor.) The hardest part was scrubbing and prepping the pan - only hard because I did it lying on my back on a cold concrete floor. There were various scrapes and nicks in the PVC coating that I "patched" with seam sealer. For the paint, I used a Glasurit single stage (i.e. 22-Line) color that was reasonably close-ish to the Prussian blue tone. The reason why I went this route was that spraying base/clear on the pan was not going to be all that practical unless I could raise the car even more. So, instead I used a urethane-safe paint roller... Hence the need to use a solid color instead of the metallic. Since the PVC has texture, you can't tell the difference between roller and spray application. I mixed the paint and hardener just as I would for spraying, except left out the small amount of reducer (thinner). I guess ants, caterpillars and worms will really dig my car... __________________ 1985 911 Carrera: The fun car 1987 944 S: The project car 2002 Subaru WRX: The daily car Visit My P-Car Projects!