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Mike Israel
Guest
Hi All,
Amongst the many late night discussions at Celina was the topic of
how best to deal with the rear quarters in that pocket between the
inner and outer panels. Would be interested in thoughts and
experiences of others.
There seem to be three options with pros and cons to each.
1) Fill them with epoxy or something. The advantage here is that
if you can keep water out then you should have no future problems
with rust. The problems seem two-fold. If the seal is broken due
to vibration or anything else, water will definitely be trapped with
no way out other that to eventually start oxidizing metal.
Likewise, if the space is filled, it would make doing a spot repair
more difficult as you could not just easily cut out a coin sized
piece and weld in a patch.
2) Leave them open. Water will get in there and how do you then
fully dry it out? At the same time, easy to keep an eye on what is
happening and you can use maintenance treatments such as waxoil.
3) Leave them open but put some sort of small drain plug at bottom
of each panel. Not sure on pros or cons here?
Your thoughts?
Mike I.
Amongst the many late night discussions at Celina was the topic of
how best to deal with the rear quarters in that pocket between the
inner and outer panels. Would be interested in thoughts and
experiences of others.
There seem to be three options with pros and cons to each.
1) Fill them with epoxy or something. The advantage here is that
if you can keep water out then you should have no future problems
with rust. The problems seem two-fold. If the seal is broken due
to vibration or anything else, water will definitely be trapped with
no way out other that to eventually start oxidizing metal.
Likewise, if the space is filled, it would make doing a spot repair
more difficult as you could not just easily cut out a coin sized
piece and weld in a patch.
2) Leave them open. Water will get in there and how do you then
fully dry it out? At the same time, easy to keep an eye on what is
happening and you can use maintenance treatments such as waxoil.
3) Leave them open but put some sort of small drain plug at bottom
of each panel. Not sure on pros or cons here?
Your thoughts?
Mike I.