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My 1987 Two Door Crown Victoria AKA THE BROWN BLOB
Started work on the booster. Brake cleaned it off really well as there was a lot of brake fluid and penetrating fluid on it from the master removal. I taped off the bosch parts sticker on the booster as well as the area of the check valve after I pulled it out and its rubber grommet. Wire wheeled the threads where the master mounts as it was really crusty with corrosion due to the two dis-similar metals then started wire wheeling all of the rust. Went over the entire unit with a DA and 80 grit, red scotch brite and another through cleaning then tac ragged it off. I sprayed two thin coats of eastwoods rust converter on it. Its is now sitting until Wednesday when it will get coated with rust encapsulator after a scuffing secession.
Here is a pic of it ready to accept its first coat of convertor.
I cleaned up everywhere I possibly could. Hopefully the convertor along with all of the following top coats will keep the remaining rust at bay.
... I cleaned up everywhere I possibly could. Hopefully the convertor along with all of the following top coats will keep the remaining rust at bay.
What about sandblasting?
2000 Grand Marquis LS HPP, a hand-me-down in 2008 with 128,000 km; 175,000 km as of July 2014
mods: air filter box 'tuba', headlight relay harness, J-mod (around 186,350 km), 70mm throttle body, KYB Gas-A-Just shocks, aluminum driveshaft, ARA3 PCM
I’ve never used one, and I don’t have an immediate or foreseeable need for one, so I have no idea how good (or bad) they might be. Hopefully someone with personal experience will chime in.
2000 Grand Marquis LS HPP, a hand-me-down in 2008 with 128,000 km; 175,000 km as of July 2014
mods: air filter box 'tuba', headlight relay harness, J-mod (around 186,350 km), 70mm throttle body, KYB Gas-A-Just shocks, aluminum driveshaft, ARA3 PCM
I have read the reviews and watched reviews and they were not too favorable. If I am gonna get something I would get an enclosed cabinet to work in as well.
If you're gonna buy one, buy one that doesn't suck. The cabinets are nice, but you need a good bit of air to run one. We had one at the marina and I had to connect up the second air compressor to make it run. They were little old 2 cylinder 20 gallon wheel-around types. Nothing impressive in the CFM department and I'd bet money that they were not in optimal shape, but even so I'd imagine that a typical single stage 2 cylinder pump would have a hard time keeping up if you were running a bead blast cabinet at full pressure.
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