Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty'
This weekend I have mainly been rust sorting:
Off side B pillar before:
Attacked it with a wire brush and my Dremel to reveal holes
Took it back to bare metal
And did the base of the A pillar as well to reveal more holes
Got some Kurust on them
Then Etch primer (U-Pol Acid 8 - great stuff!)
Then zinc primer
After that had dried over night, this morning I filled the holes, let it go off and finished with another coat of zinc primer.
Job done
I also sorted similar problems on the near side.
Before:
During:
After:
I also sorted the back panel out:
and
You can see in that picture we trial fitted the rear panels too
Next came the front bulkhead. "Rust staining from where inner dash shelf renewed" hmmm
Took a wire brush to it
Kursuted it
An hour or so later
And top coat of zinc spray, but didnt take a photograph
More on the bulkhead next week. Wait and see
So what about that "rust staining"? Well when a wise man says
leave it alone do as they say - take note James Wallace if you go looking for problems on a 2cv
you'll find them!!!Under the parcel shelf trim lay this:
Right of dash
Left of dash
So out with the wire brush:
Yes those are holes
And after much scrubbing and sanding some more kurust
This will be followed later this week by more zinc primer. I've thrown the soundproofing away, but kept the vinyl to use as a template. I'll buy some nice black or grey carpet and line the parcel shelf and dash area. It just beats me how it got so bad, I've never seen such a rusty parcel shelf apart from on cars that have been left in gardens!
I also attacked the interior of the roof with my wire brush, sand paper, kurust and etch/zinc primer:
It's not a very good pic, the darker areas are where there's zinc primer on the etch primer. I'm going to get some metal paint this week and will give it a nice (probably grey) over coat.
Goodness - It's only when you look at the pictures that you realise how much you can achieve in 3 days!
