wjaholic
My car stole my wallet!
I pulled my gas tank out a while back and the project just kept getting bigger and bigger. I decided to pull my rear bumper and clean it out. I have had this car for a long time and have never driven it (bought it with a blown motor). The bumper has essentially two parts, the inner "structure" which looks like it was at one time 1/8" to 3/16" steel, and the outher chrome part, which is faily soft and light weight.
I sat the bumper on a couple of saw horses and started trying to get it seperated. I did everything I could and it wasn't working. I was running out of light and time so I broke out the angle grinder. After breaking one bolt I figured it was the best bet. I gound the heads of the bolts off. I wasn't too concerned about nicking the chrome on my bumper because it was in sad shape itself. I finally got them seperated and was amazed at the amount of crap that was packed in between them.
I spent the better part of the past two weekend cleaning on just the inner structure. I wire wheeled, sand blasted, and washed it. I then coated it with a good coat of POR-15. Followed by a top coat of Rustoleum Gloss black.
With that finished I tackled the chrome part of the bumper. The more I cleaned on it the more problems I found. I couldn't put it back together the way that it was. So I started the reconstruction, I sand blasted, sand blasted, ground and sanded on it to get a base line. I hade to cut some areas out and weld in some new steel. I didn't want to go with having the bumpers re-chromed because... well... they are not in that good of shape and I can spend that money on something a little more worth while (Transmission).
So, with that layed out. I decided that I wanted to fill in the bumper bolt holes. I tracked down some 3/8-16 Grade 5s, cleaned them and fed them in from the front. I welded them from the back and ground them off. I filled in a few spots with new steel and have filled and the spots I couldn't fix with a very thin layer of body filler. Bassically filled in the pitting left under the chrome and around my welds.
Lets see if the pictures work....
Sorry about the bluryness, I am working myself crazy... :drunken:
My Question is, What color should I paint it?
This is the color the car is going to be.
I sat the bumper on a couple of saw horses and started trying to get it seperated. I did everything I could and it wasn't working. I was running out of light and time so I broke out the angle grinder. After breaking one bolt I figured it was the best bet. I gound the heads of the bolts off. I wasn't too concerned about nicking the chrome on my bumper because it was in sad shape itself. I finally got them seperated and was amazed at the amount of crap that was packed in between them.
I spent the better part of the past two weekend cleaning on just the inner structure. I wire wheeled, sand blasted, and washed it. I then coated it with a good coat of POR-15. Followed by a top coat of Rustoleum Gloss black.
With that finished I tackled the chrome part of the bumper. The more I cleaned on it the more problems I found. I couldn't put it back together the way that it was. So I started the reconstruction, I sand blasted, sand blasted, ground and sanded on it to get a base line. I hade to cut some areas out and weld in some new steel. I didn't want to go with having the bumpers re-chromed because... well... they are not in that good of shape and I can spend that money on something a little more worth while (Transmission).
So, with that layed out. I decided that I wanted to fill in the bumper bolt holes. I tracked down some 3/8-16 Grade 5s, cleaned them and fed them in from the front. I welded them from the back and ground them off. I filled in a few spots with new steel and have filled and the spots I couldn't fix with a very thin layer of body filler. Bassically filled in the pitting left under the chrome and around my welds.
Lets see if the pictures work....
Sorry about the bluryness, I am working myself crazy... :drunken:
My Question is, What color should I paint it?
This is the color the car is going to be.
