Start of a Dart
The under-car cleaning has been a nightmare. Needle scaling, scraping, Easy-Off, pressure wash, Simple Green, pressure wash, more needle scaling, more scraping, more pressure washing, and then very coarse steel wool all over to give a paintable surface, wipe the whole thing down with alcohol to get it grease free, and FINALLY that part is done. I asked several undercoating questions in other threads and every single person said the process sucks. Add me to that list, the process sucks. Both the fuel line and front-to-back brake line are out. At long last after weeks of screwing around with this thing I'm 70% done with the primer and will head out there today to hopefully finish that up. After that I will be cutting out the bottom of the spare tire well to weld in the new one along with another patch piece to fix all the holes where some PO installed a battery cutoff switch.
For the first time since I got this car, I am installing things instead of taking things apart, cleaning, and painting. Once the welding is done the rear running gear can all go back in. The project is about to get a whole bunch more fun. :D
And while we're at it, when I took off the fuel line, there was this wire and clip but I have no idea where it went - some kind of grounding thing maybe?
The under-car cleaning has been a nightmare. Needle scaling, scraping, Easy-Off, pressure wash, Simple Green, pressure wash, more needle scaling, more scraping, more pressure washing, and then very coarse steel wool all over to give a paintable surface, wipe the whole thing down with alcohol to get it grease free, and FINALLY that part is done. I asked several undercoating questions in other threads and every single person said the process sucks. Add me to that list, the process sucks. Both the fuel line and front-to-back brake line are out. At long last after weeks of screwing around with this thing I'm 70% done with the primer and will head out there today to hopefully finish that up. After that I will be cutting out the bottom of the spare tire well to weld in the new one along with another patch piece to fix all the holes where some PO installed a battery cutoff switch.
For the first time since I got this car, I am installing things instead of taking things apart, cleaning, and painting. Once the welding is done the rear running gear can all go back in. The project is about to get a whole bunch more fun. :D
And while we're at it, when I took off the fuel line, there was this wire and clip but I have no idea where it went - some kind of grounding thing maybe?
