Re: painting the 51 200

Posted by David Grubbs On 2013/1/16 8:49:42

There was a question of what I use to seal the welds that I didn't answer earlier. The ones on top of the rocker panel were sealed using a paint on/smear on product we got from the paint supply store. The bottom of the rocker panels were sealed by drilling two equal spaced holes in the bottom of the panel, then using Eastwood's rocker panel sealer, squirted into the cavity by use of a plastic tube. The sticky greenish yellow stuff coats the metal and prevents rust. Just don't apply it without having newspaper under the entire length as it will find any gap and drip thru it. You leave the holes in the rocker panel for drainage. The original panels had V shaped holes, which can be mimicked by sticking a phillips screwdriver in the hole and pulling the screwdriver back to push the metal up and down. Just make sure the "scoop" faces to the rear.