- Joined
- Jul 18, 2020
- Points
- 123
- Location
- Portchester, Fareham
- Model of Z
- 1998 BMW Z3 Individual 1.9 M44 B19
Another afternoon under the car.....and I'm definitely getting there..... noting what @Althulas said about the cable ties, I decided to gently wiggled them off with a pair of pliers, going to and fro, left and right until they came off. The studs are threaded but the ties aren't.....
HOWEVER. the brake pipe clips unscrew !, I tried for ages trying to pull them off the studs, got them loose and turned anti clockwise and they unscrew !....
and I'm mighty glad I did take them off, somehow the studs and the surrounding area were heavily pitted and corroded...and took a fair bit of finger sander, drill with a wire wheel and the Dremel to get it all off.
in getting rid of it I noted something curious.. this recess above the brake hose support. It felt like sharp edges and seems really weird, but it's on the nearside as well. It just doesn't look factory, almost like the brake hose has worn it down but it can't being rubber. That too was pitted with rust and took a lot of grinding to get back to bare metal
anyway, I treated the whole area with good old (and I mean old, I've had the bottle since the 90's !)
of Kurust.
The studs and surrounding area were treated to a liberal dose of Kurust and within 5 minutes was starting to turn black.
I also seam sealed the end of the sills both front and back and well as the two rear spring perches. didn't photograph it though...
I also had a bit of a setback... I went back to my "favourite" front offside Sill end and looked underneath, and to my horror, there were three small brown brown areas on the Epoxy primer !... again !!.... this time I ground down the whole area, and got it as shiny as I possibly could given the rivulets and my dodgy welding.
I tried something different this time and caked the entire area in Kurust... I'll leave that until tomorrow and go over what I exposed today with epoxy primer
so the next steps are..... Epoxy prime the areas I've left (rear cable harness and this bloody sill).. then apply rattle can stone chip (I chose light grey given the colour of the top coat), to the sills and wheel arches.
Then it's spraying the underside in Fiji Green and e-coat colour where needed....then.... we're ready to start putting hardware back on ! starting with the brake and fuel lines.
currently the car is raised so much I can kneel underneath it, I'll obviously lower it a bit before I refit the fuel tank and the subframe.
I'll go with the option most have chosen, and that's the build up the entire rear end and roll it out on a trolley and lift.
HOWEVER. the brake pipe clips unscrew !, I tried for ages trying to pull them off the studs, got them loose and turned anti clockwise and they unscrew !....
and I'm mighty glad I did take them off, somehow the studs and the surrounding area were heavily pitted and corroded...and took a fair bit of finger sander, drill with a wire wheel and the Dremel to get it all off.
in getting rid of it I noted something curious.. this recess above the brake hose support. It felt like sharp edges and seems really weird, but it's on the nearside as well. It just doesn't look factory, almost like the brake hose has worn it down but it can't being rubber. That too was pitted with rust and took a lot of grinding to get back to bare metal
anyway, I treated the whole area with good old (and I mean old, I've had the bottle since the 90's !)
of Kurust. The studs and surrounding area were treated to a liberal dose of Kurust and within 5 minutes was starting to turn black.
I also seam sealed the end of the sills both front and back and well as the two rear spring perches. didn't photograph it though...
I also had a bit of a setback... I went back to my "favourite" front offside Sill end and looked underneath, and to my horror, there were three small brown brown areas on the Epoxy primer !... again !!.... this time I ground down the whole area, and got it as shiny as I possibly could given the rivulets and my dodgy welding.
I tried something different this time and caked the entire area in Kurust... I'll leave that until tomorrow and go over what I exposed today with epoxy primer
so the next steps are..... Epoxy prime the areas I've left (rear cable harness and this bloody sill).. then apply rattle can stone chip (I chose light grey given the colour of the top coat), to the sills and wheel arches.
Then it's spraying the underside in Fiji Green and e-coat colour where needed....then.... we're ready to start putting hardware back on ! starting with the brake and fuel lines.
currently the car is raised so much I can kneel underneath it, I'll obviously lower it a bit before I refit the fuel tank and the subframe.
I'll go with the option most have chosen, and that's the build up the entire rear end and roll it out on a trolley and lift.
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