Hello!
Some of you may have read my other hello post with details about my first puma... if you haven't, I won't bore you too much with the details, but its a 1998 plate 1.7 in Jewel green, 2 owner from new, FFSH 65k car with all extras out the factory. For the costly sum of £200 as it was in need of a CV boot, an exhaust box and a couple of sill patches.
Now, as Puma's go, rot wise, mine wasn't too bad at all. However, if left, I know it will be (hopes and dreams aren't an effective rust inhibitor sadly). So far I've whipped my arch carpets out, front and rear, given them a good pressure wash out and allowed them to dry and also done the inside of both front and rear arches with waxoyl. Now I've decided to attack the extremely light surface rust pitting on my sills with a wire wheel and a drill....
As you can see, they weren't too bad at all really, with most of the old crap being cleaned up to this (shiny shiny)
I know it's been covered a hundred times on here but each report seems to contradict eachother even if slightly, so I'll ask anyway... what's the best thing for me to do with regard to keeping it clean and rot free? I've asked a friend who's completely rebuilt his mk1 golf from the ground up and so far my plan is:
Jenolite any left over pits that I can't get 100% clean (maybe 2/3 treatments)
Acid etch primer
Gravitex/similar stone chip protection
Grey primer to build up some layers
Top coat
Lacquer.
Also use some form of cavity wax in all box sections/inside the sills (is this possible?)
Any advice/suggestions welcome re that process, as this is a job i'd like to do once and once only! Also, any advice as to what to do with this? It's the only sign of rot on my rear arches, I'm not fussed about it being there and it's certainly not cause for me to replace the arch, however I'd like to stop it getting worse! Am I right in thinking that removing the rear trim inside and using some form of cavity wax/waxoyl on the seam inside will help slow/stop the process? If there's any rot there already I'll jenolite it first.
This isn't going to be a concourse motor, but it's been bloody well looked after over the years and good, clean early Puma's are becoming thin on the ground! My plans so far are to:
Clean up and protect any rot
Cambelt and W/P
Possibly lowering springs?
Fit my full Milltek system
Drive it!
Oh, also cleaned my carpet and seats with a wet vac too... seats were in a sorry state but they cleaned up well! (photo shows seat base cleaned, back left for comparison!)
Josh
Some of you may have read my other hello post with details about my first puma... if you haven't, I won't bore you too much with the details, but its a 1998 plate 1.7 in Jewel green, 2 owner from new, FFSH 65k car with all extras out the factory. For the costly sum of £200 as it was in need of a CV boot, an exhaust box and a couple of sill patches.
Now, as Puma's go, rot wise, mine wasn't too bad at all. However, if left, I know it will be (hopes and dreams aren't an effective rust inhibitor sadly). So far I've whipped my arch carpets out, front and rear, given them a good pressure wash out and allowed them to dry and also done the inside of both front and rear arches with waxoyl. Now I've decided to attack the extremely light surface rust pitting on my sills with a wire wheel and a drill....
As you can see, they weren't too bad at all really, with most of the old crap being cleaned up to this (shiny shiny)
I know it's been covered a hundred times on here but each report seems to contradict eachother even if slightly, so I'll ask anyway... what's the best thing for me to do with regard to keeping it clean and rot free? I've asked a friend who's completely rebuilt his mk1 golf from the ground up and so far my plan is:
Jenolite any left over pits that I can't get 100% clean (maybe 2/3 treatments)
Acid etch primer
Gravitex/similar stone chip protection
Grey primer to build up some layers
Top coat
Lacquer.
Also use some form of cavity wax in all box sections/inside the sills (is this possible?)
Any advice/suggestions welcome re that process, as this is a job i'd like to do once and once only! Also, any advice as to what to do with this? It's the only sign of rot on my rear arches, I'm not fussed about it being there and it's certainly not cause for me to replace the arch, however I'd like to stop it getting worse! Am I right in thinking that removing the rear trim inside and using some form of cavity wax/waxoyl on the seam inside will help slow/stop the process? If there's any rot there already I'll jenolite it first.
This isn't going to be a concourse motor, but it's been bloody well looked after over the years and good, clean early Puma's are becoming thin on the ground! My plans so far are to:
Clean up and protect any rot
Cambelt and W/P
Possibly lowering springs?
Fit my full Milltek system
Drive it!
Oh, also cleaned my carpet and seats with a wet vac too... seats were in a sorry state but they cleaned up well! (photo shows seat base cleaned, back left for comparison!)
Josh