Decided to change up my annual spring Cobra wheel install a bit by FINALLY reinstalling my Cobra brakes as well as check the passenger side for any rust development...
The good:
Oh yeah
The front portion of the rocker had some surface rust and pitting but like the driver side it turned out to be rock solid after going at it with a wire wheel and my trusty hammer. So that's a load off my mind.
The bad:
This area was a bit of a concern since I've owned the car, I initially put some rust converter (not POR15) over it and hoped for the best. Just recently I was looking around and noticed a audible crunch sound when I push up on the fender liner...
That hole used to be a 1/4" punched by the factory lol The good part is all the bad rust was concentrated to the bottom area, the upper rail is solid other than some surface rust the foam touched.
Strangely the driver side fender support has no rust in this area it seems, normally the driver side gets the brunt of the problems
The hole was actually smaller than that initially, but I enlarged it to get every last bit of this out...
Did I mention I hate this foam? :redmad: Further opening it up also allowed me to scrape off and seal the surface rust inside and better yet get to clean metal.
I'll be posting more pics as I go...
The good:
Oh yeah
The front portion of the rocker had some surface rust and pitting but like the driver side it turned out to be rock solid after going at it with a wire wheel and my trusty hammer. So that's a load off my mind.
The bad:
This area was a bit of a concern since I've owned the car, I initially put some rust converter (not POR15) over it and hoped for the best. Just recently I was looking around and noticed a audible crunch sound when I push up on the fender liner...
That hole used to be a 1/4" punched by the factory lol The good part is all the bad rust was concentrated to the bottom area, the upper rail is solid other than some surface rust the foam touched.
Strangely the driver side fender support has no rust in this area it seems, normally the driver side gets the brunt of the problems
The hole was actually smaller than that initially, but I enlarged it to get every last bit of this out...
Did I mention I hate this foam? :redmad: Further opening it up also allowed me to scrape off and seal the surface rust inside and better yet get to clean metal.
I'll be posting more pics as I go...