Sunny Sunday and I attacked it with gusto, well sort of, I got the spanners out and the grinder out to play for a little while.
Decided to get the RH inner wing de-rusted and cleaned up, needed to get it properly primed too as the Bonda wants 24hrs drying before applying another solvent based paint, I want to get it seam sealed and painted with the black Hammerite tomorrow night.
Got the scraper out to get the worst of it off the inner wing top.
The white powdery stuff is from the chemical reaction between bare steel and bare aluminium.
Pinged out the spire clips and hit it hard with the wire brush on the drill and wiped it clean with meths ready for painting.
From a rusty mess to red primer.
Had to slice and dice a nut and bolt on the passenger seat to allow me to get that out of the way, and while I was there I decided that it would be fun to poke the sill to see how bad it was.
Well, it wasn't pretty, at all........
Ho hum, there is indeed a length of box section to replace it and happy days will come again when I get that welded in.
I also got a prezzie in the post.
So I have a good bit of work to do and I also have a decent underbody protection to go on and keep the tin worm at bay in the future.
More in a few days I reckon.
