Difference between revisions of "Areas that rust - Behind VW underseal"
m |
m |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
This is a general description of what can be found behind apparently good looking original VW underseal, once a chink is seen and it is stripped back for inspection... | This is a general description of what can be found behind ''apparently'' good looking original VW underseal, once a chink is seen and it is stripped back for inspection... | ||
This case happens to be typical of front jacking points approached from the wheel-well and rear cross member/jacking points also approached from associated the wheel-well. | This case happens to be typical of front jacking points approached from the wheel-well and rear cross member/jacking points also approached from associated the wheel-well. | ||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
[[File:Rust_Underseal_03.JPG]] | [[File:Rust_Underseal_03.JPG]] | ||
A good tool to clear away underseal is a [[General | A good tool to clear away underseal is a [[General Underseal chisel|re-shaped wood-chisel]] | ||
Moving back behind the rusty bulkhead, down along the sill, a good idea is to rattle out rust and much from behind the area... no good trying to treat heavy scale that can be rattled off and out. Here the first rubbish to come out are lumps of dried clay, smash up and rattle/vacuum out, then ten minutes of knocking around and rodding, a good quantity of scale can be extracted | |||
[[File:Rust_Underseal_02.JPG]] | [[File:Rust_Underseal_02.JPG]] | ||
All from spotting an edge of underseal starting to peel away from a flange and investigating further.. looked fine at first sight. | |||
Revision as of 11:26, 11 July 2010
This is a general description of what can be found behind apparently good looking original VW underseal, once a chink is seen and it is stripped back for inspection...
This case happens to be typical of front jacking points approached from the wheel-well and rear cross member/jacking points also approached from associated the wheel-well.
Front:
A good tool to clear away underseal is a re-shaped wood-chisel
Moving back behind the rusty bulkhead, down along the sill, a good idea is to rattle out rust and much from behind the area... no good trying to treat heavy scale that can be rattled off and out. Here the first rubbish to come out are lumps of dried clay, smash up and rattle/vacuum out, then ten minutes of knocking around and rodding, a good quantity of scale can be extracted
All from spotting an edge of underseal starting to peel away from a flange and investigating further.. looked fine at first sight.
