rust treatment?

[NavySEAL2B at insightbb.com (GTG)]

> Best thing to do is to go to Napa, buy a brake line flaring kit from 
> OTC/Stinger for about $30 (ISO
> Metric) and a basic line bending mandrel/tool.  Run a new line.

Could you expand more on this process or direct me somewhere i can read up 
on it?
I also have rusted brake lines that i hit with a wire brush - it ate clear 
thru them.  I cut it and pinched it off so as of now i'm without rear brakes 
at all, but replacing all those lines is my first priority for when i pull 
the car out of storage this winter.  I'm actually planning to replace the 
whole system from the MC to the rotors, but the extent of the project 
depends on $$$.

As for rust treatment - I resorted to using a sandblaster on my car (i keep 
meaning to do a full write up, maybe this coming week) but also had a lot of 
success with a wire brush and a paint stripper pad.  If you go to home depot 
or autozone they have these big round hard spongey looking things that go 
into a drill that will do a pretty good job of getting loose rust and paint 
and whatever else is there out, then hit it with POR-15.  I went a step 
further and got out ALL the rust before painting, but i hear you can even 
use that stuff right over pretty bad rust.  If you blast a hole clear thru 
the metal somewhere, there are patch kits that work well with POR15.  Not 
sure if they're made by the same company, necessarily, but porstore.com i 
think it is sells them in kits with it.

-Grant-
Annapolis, MD/Louisville, KY
1980 in storage :(





----- Original Message ----- 
From: <SequoiaGLX@twcny.rr.com>
To: "Allyn" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>
Cc: "scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: rust treatment?


> I'd be scared to death of a brake line like that.
> Trust me, I've had them fail.  Granted, it was on a
> 5000 pound pickup truck....
>
> Best thing to do is to go to Napa, buy a brake line
> flaring kit from OTC/Stinger for about $30 (ISO
> Metric) and a basic line bending mandrel/tool.  Run
> a new line.  The line nuts and line should be less
> than $10.oo.
>
> Don't mess with rusty brake lines.  It's freaking scary.
>
> John K. Gates
> --
> Rome, NY
> '97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
> '85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new
> house/shop for a complete
> teardown/buildup sometime soon...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Allyn <amalventano@sc.rr.com>
> Date: Saturday, September 4, 2004 9:35 am
> Subject: rust treatment?
>
>> ok, i know POR15 is the stuff to get if you want
> to paint to seal
>> in a
>> surface that has started rusting. the question is,
> what is the
>> good stuff
>> that i can use to treat a surface that is _really_
> bad. you know,
>> when it
>> looks like its an onion peel (feels like it too).
> some surfaces
>> under the
>> passat i'm afraid to even touch (the major one is
> a brake line
>> that runs
>> across the rear, right by that fuel assembly
> thing). normally i
>> would just
>> wire brush something like this to get the loose
> stuff off, but i
>> dont want
>> to start leaks if i can help it...
>>
>> thx
>> Al
>>
>>
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