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rust rears its ugly head...when does it become a lostcause? (long)
Almost never. See http://together.net/~manycj/59Olds88.htm
Also, click around and see the Mustang he did. I'm not sure why he starts
with such rusty cars - must be a masochist.
Chris
At 05:12 PM 02/22/2003 -0800, Jeff Toomasson wrote:
>I had suspected that there may be some deeper rust issues because I found
>that the strut towers showed some beginning signs of separation.
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>Well, I finally got around to getting under the carpet and under the noise
>padding and found more crud. Photos can be seen at:
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><http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/jtoomasson/lst?.dir=/My+Photos&.view=t>http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/jtoomasson/lst?.dir=/My+Photos&.view=t
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>The only two points where there are actual holes is near front of the
>passenger side floor pan and towards the front of the rear passenger side
>pan. Both holes are no bigger than a dime and the surrounding metal feels
>intact for the most part.
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>But I started doing some more digging. I stripped off a little of the
>bondo near the fender flares to see how easy it would be remove in case I
>had to remove the fender to fix the shock tower situation. That's when I
>found the PO had gone nuts with the rivets...
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>When I start adding all this up, I get nervous. I do not have problem
>welding two, three, four, five patches in to fix all this stuff, I do not
>have a problem grinding out all the rust from the pan, I do not have a
>problem welding the shock towers if I could be assured they'd come out
>good as new or better...but patching 50+ rivets holes with no guarantee
>there isn't already rust behind them?? I want to have mk1 that's going to
>be CLEAN - I don't want to spend 5000 hours and $5000 only to have it fall
>apart in a couple of years...
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>At what point do I call the coroner? Did I make a poor choice? I mean, I
>got the thing for $200 primarily because it had an original ragtop which I
>could remove if it came down to it. I could easily get that money back
>from parts...I keep hearing that Cali rocs have little-to-no rust. Should
>I start again?
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>Thanks for letting me rant. Jeff
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