Hey all, long time lurker recently purchased two HJ47's for a steal and starting my resto to combine them into hopefully one but first to attack is the frame!
All in all pretty sound, years of good old Aussie red dust build up, surface rust but nothing to serious from what I can tell hitting it with a quick wire wheel. It looks to have been painted with a black of some sort in the past which may be an issue when trying to coat the frame again?
Looking over frame coatings and things have progressed a long way since early 2000's I've read through a ton of mud threads trying to grasp what's out there and what people have had success with...
KBS Coatings, POR-15, Rust Bullet or good old can of Satin black or an enamel painted on...
I'm leaning towards KBS but unfortunately being in very remote WA with no access at this point to a sand blaster just a good old wire wheel, elbow grease and pressure washer I'm wondering what route to go as I've heard KBS has issues unless the material is ultra clean ie sand blasted...
I've heard and watched many horror stories on POR-15 and moisture getting in behind it and just allowing the rust to go even crazier till you start to poke around at it years later...
I've had pretty good results in the past just removing as much rust as I can, rust converting it with Fertan applying a good rust guard primer & epoxy paint on other metals.
I was going to give it a good pressure wash & degrease, then begin with the wire wheel and removing what loose rust I can, have some light 120 grit flapper discs to clean it up best I can.
Has anyone had pretty good results with KBS having not sandblasted their chassis, I'm talking year later reviews not I painted it on and it looks great.... How's it actually held up, is there much rust popping back through etc?
Have attached some photo's of said chassis to be hopefully saved, obviously being in Australia hoping to get a product fairly easily obtainable over here vs a lot of the US products that never make their way over to us..
Much appreciate any feedback, tips, it's my first big resto and hopefully can make something of the two of these 47's to get one back on the road and loved once again!
Cheers
Trent
All in all pretty sound, years of good old Aussie red dust build up, surface rust but nothing to serious from what I can tell hitting it with a quick wire wheel. It looks to have been painted with a black of some sort in the past which may be an issue when trying to coat the frame again?
Looking over frame coatings and things have progressed a long way since early 2000's I've read through a ton of mud threads trying to grasp what's out there and what people have had success with...
KBS Coatings, POR-15, Rust Bullet or good old can of Satin black or an enamel painted on...
I'm leaning towards KBS but unfortunately being in very remote WA with no access at this point to a sand blaster just a good old wire wheel, elbow grease and pressure washer I'm wondering what route to go as I've heard KBS has issues unless the material is ultra clean ie sand blasted...
I've heard and watched many horror stories on POR-15 and moisture getting in behind it and just allowing the rust to go even crazier till you start to poke around at it years later...
I've had pretty good results in the past just removing as much rust as I can, rust converting it with Fertan applying a good rust guard primer & epoxy paint on other metals.
I was going to give it a good pressure wash & degrease, then begin with the wire wheel and removing what loose rust I can, have some light 120 grit flapper discs to clean it up best I can.
Has anyone had pretty good results with KBS having not sandblasted their chassis, I'm talking year later reviews not I painted it on and it looks great.... How's it actually held up, is there much rust popping back through etc?
Have attached some photo's of said chassis to be hopefully saved, obviously being in Australia hoping to get a product fairly easily obtainable over here vs a lot of the US products that never make their way over to us..
Much appreciate any feedback, tips, it's my first big resto and hopefully can make something of the two of these 47's to get one back on the road and loved once again!
Cheers
Trent