Re: Adventures with a 1955 Clipper
Posted by JWL On 2011/7/27 21:59:25
Hello All,
Having had success with the trunk, I turned my attention to the interior in the last garage sessions. I had previously removed the seats for cleaning and rejuvenation. This left me with a much better view of the worn and misshapen carpet. I removed the door sills in order to get the carpet out. The carpet was badly deteriorated and the padding had been wet and was showing rust on its bottom side.
This caused me some alarm and concern, but as I investigated further it appeared that it was only surface rust and that the floorboards and surrounding areas were in sound shape. I removed the accelerator pedal, the floorboard plate for the clutch and brake pedals (the Clipper has a standard transmission and standard brakes). This area also looked good.
I cleaned and scraped, wire brushed, and vacuumed the floorboards to remove the loose sprayed-on sound deadening material that had been under the carpet padding.
I then posed a question on the General Discussion forum about dealing with surface rust. I received a few kind replies recommending rust encapsulation products. They are sold under many different names, but are basically phosphoric acid. As I understand the process, the phosphoric acid interacts with rusted metal and changes the rust to a material that can then be safely primed and painted.
I bought a bottle of the Jasco product at Lowe's and proceeded to brush it on the whole floorboard surface. The directions say that it will turn the rusted metal into a gray looking surface, and that it takes 24 hours for the interaction to work.
The following day I had a most pleasant surprise. What I thought was a large amount of surface rust was the red oxide colored body primer. There were several gray areas and most of them were not large. This was most encouraging. The next day I washed down the floorboards with water and a rag to get rid of the phosphoric acid residue. After drying, I applied a coat of primer paint on the gray ares to protect them from the humid air.
Next step is to try applying some spray on undercoating to replace the material that I scrapped off and then to repaint the entire floorboard area with a good oil based enamel.
The next garage session will probably not take place for about another week. We have two birthdays to celebrate this weekend. The birthday boys are my son and son-in-law. my son and grandson coming in this weekend and my brother is coming down from the Dallas area for a visit. We should have some nice family time together; albeit, in the 105F temperatures.
Brother, son, and grandson want to visit the Circuit of the Americas construction site, the venue for the next United States Formula One Grand Prix in 2012. We'll probably do this when son and grandson get picked-up at the airport on Friday as the race track location is nearby.
Take care.
(o{I}o)
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Having had success with the trunk, I turned my attention to the interior in the last garage sessions. I had previously removed the seats for cleaning and rejuvenation. This left me with a much better view of the worn and misshapen carpet. I removed the door sills in order to get the carpet out. The carpet was badly deteriorated and the padding had been wet and was showing rust on its bottom side.
This caused me some alarm and concern, but as I investigated further it appeared that it was only surface rust and that the floorboards and surrounding areas were in sound shape. I removed the accelerator pedal, the floorboard plate for the clutch and brake pedals (the Clipper has a standard transmission and standard brakes). This area also looked good.
I cleaned and scraped, wire brushed, and vacuumed the floorboards to remove the loose sprayed-on sound deadening material that had been under the carpet padding.
I then posed a question on the General Discussion forum about dealing with surface rust. I received a few kind replies recommending rust encapsulation products. They are sold under many different names, but are basically phosphoric acid. As I understand the process, the phosphoric acid interacts with rusted metal and changes the rust to a material that can then be safely primed and painted.
I bought a bottle of the Jasco product at Lowe's and proceeded to brush it on the whole floorboard surface. The directions say that it will turn the rusted metal into a gray looking surface, and that it takes 24 hours for the interaction to work.
The following day I had a most pleasant surprise. What I thought was a large amount of surface rust was the red oxide colored body primer. There were several gray areas and most of them were not large. This was most encouraging. The next day I washed down the floorboards with water and a rag to get rid of the phosphoric acid residue. After drying, I applied a coat of primer paint on the gray ares to protect them from the humid air.
Next step is to try applying some spray on undercoating to replace the material that I scrapped off and then to repaint the entire floorboard area with a good oil based enamel.
The next garage session will probably not take place for about another week. We have two birthdays to celebrate this weekend. The birthday boys are my son and son-in-law. my son and grandson coming in this weekend and my brother is coming down from the Dallas area for a visit. We should have some nice family time together; albeit, in the 105F temperatures.
Brother, son, and grandson want to visit the Circuit of the Americas construction site, the venue for the next United States Formula One Grand Prix in 2012. We'll probably do this when son and grandson get picked-up at the airport on Friday as the race track location is nearby.
Take care.
(o{I}o)
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