St185 full rebuild
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Re: St185 full rebuild
It was a nice change to get away from the chassis and start on some other parts of the car. The suspension parts were fully disassembled and sand blasted. All parts were painted using a wet on wet method. The sand blasted parts were epoxy primed and then 20 minutes later after the primer had flashed the top coat was applied. This method I've found to give the best results. The paint and primer chemically bond together rather than a mechanical bond between coats from sanding.
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- chriss402
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Re: St185 full rebuild
New seals and installed on calipers. These will get shelved until towards the end of the build .
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Impressive work! Keep it coming! Great to see another one saved.
- tHeGeeK
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Now the chassis was square and sound I wanted to be able to work on the underside as well as the top. Seeing as I was going to be doing a color change I needed a rotisserie. So I decided I would build one using some donor hubs from a parts car as my pivot point .
- chriss402
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After double checking my clearances I installed the A frames and finally the car was able to spin like a roasted pig!
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Now it can spin, time to pressure wash off all the years of crud and grease !
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After pressure washing and engine degreaser about three or four times I finally got all the caked on grease and mud off. Time to put her in the booth to begin seam sealing and final prep.
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Final prep continued .....
The fire wall had to be painted separately as I was concerned it would be too much to paint all in one go .
The fire wall had to be painted separately as I was concerned it would be too much to paint all in one go .
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Once the underside and firewall was completed, those areas were masked off so the exterior could be painted.
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I had to remove a lot of the sound deadening material in order to wed things up and straighten sheet metal . I didn't want the car sounding like a tin can afterwards so I opted to install Dynamat on the flooring and foam rubber dynamat on the firewall .
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