Cleaning the inside<\/h3>\n
The inside of the wings are protected with a very tick layer of tar which protected the inside from rust.
\nFrom the photo it is clearly visible that it did his you very well. The right side, the part behind the mud shield, which was not protected is much more affected by rust.<\/p>\n
After the layer of tar was removed with a small torch and a\u00a0putty knife the undamaged metal\u00a0became visible. When the whole surface was cleaned\u00a0with a poly-carbide steel brush the front wing looks like new again. All difficult to reach area’s are now sandblasted so the inside is now ready to receive the first layer of epoxy primer. Due to long lasting condensation inside the headlight pod the lower part has been damaged by extensive rust. First the lead, used to smooth up the connection between headlight pod and front wing, is removed. Now all by rust affected material is removed and the holes in the front wing are welded. Now we know how much material is missing we can start with producing the new pieces.<\/p>\n The new pieces are fitted for the last time and welded unto the headlight pod. The last step is reapply the lead to smooth out connection between the wing and headlight pod.<\/p>\n When I was investigating the headlight pod from the right side front wing (which is not rusted at all) i found a small hole in the lowest part. My first impression was that there was a small hole due to rust but after looking in more detail to the inside area it looks like a small hole to drain water. I will make such a hole in the left headlight pod as well.<\/p>\n The holes in the left front valance, which are certainly not original, needs to be removed. \u00a0In total 9 holes where drilled. With this amount of holes it is better to just remove the hole affected area as one piece and remove it for a new piece.<\/p>\n The inside inclusive the valance will be painted in the following order:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the last big metal work pieces are the front wings. After the left front wing was cleaned thoroughly the following repairs need to be done before the wing can be painted inside. The valance assembly has several holes of 1″” \u00a0drilled for some unknown reason. Headlight pod has extensive rust in the under […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-wings","category-left-front-wing","category-46-id","category-80-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"LeftFrontWingOriginal\"](\"http:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LeftFrontWingOriginal.jpg\")
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