Just a brief update on the '68 CS project.
I literally worked on stuff for the CS projest until I was black and blue...
Satin black and Ford blue to be more specific...
Spent a couple of hours cleaning up the '71 rad support...
Unfortunately, the "surface rust" was a little worse that I thought before I got it cleaned up with a wire wheel.
There are a couple of rust through's that wern't appearant until I go it cleaned up. There is some pretty bad pitting where the inner fender meets the support. (especially on the passenger side... go figure)
I got some stuff that is supposed to dissolve the rust completely, I'm gonna us some of that to really give it a good cleaning, then wash it down with laquer thinner and treat the area with Eastwood rust encapsulator.
Then, I am gonna use some of the fiberglass impregnated bondo to fill the holes and build the area back up where the rust has eaten it away.
Then I'll give the whole support a coat of Eastwood rust encapsulator before installing it.
It is mostly on the inner side so the patch part would be inside the fender well and painted so it won't be seen.
Since I am really only doing a functional resto w/a few upgrades it should last me at least another 20 years...
I know some of the purests would frown on the patch work, but I am mainly restoring it to put back to work hauling my camper around until I can get Olde Skool gone thru and converted to an RV...
Then who knows...
Sorry no pics this time... my camera went blind...
Everything else works, it just can't see anymore...
It's been acting up for a little while now.
Sometimes the sensor would work and let me take pics other times it wouldn't, so I decided to replace it with an upgrade.
I just bought a new Canon A560 (7.1 mp's instead of 3.2)
on e-bay, but it hasn't arrived yet.
(I got it for about half of what I could have gotten the same one at Circuit City for and it. it is brand new in the box and comes with the full manufacturer's warrenty)
When I get it, I'll be sure to take some pics to fill in the gaps...
I also got an additional 3 gigs of memory coming for it as well...
KaptnKA
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