Date:         Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:20:53 -0400
Reply-To:     Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ENTIRE interior is out... any odd jobs I should be doing?
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George out of curiosity what was the new color for the volvo? Dark or light?

On 8/10/05, George Goff <THX0001@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 8/9/05 10:04:02 PM, mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM writes:
> 
> << spray the entire inside with Krown's anti-rust oil. >>
> 
> This is overkill and it may have at least one shortcoming.  I once restored a
> Volvo and did a color change on it.  Since all of the interior trim was out
> anyway for the color change, I had a buddy completely cover the insides of all
> the body panels with the wax based compound he used in his rustproofing shop.
> The stuff was similar to Waxoyl.  All was right in my world until the weather
> got warm; then the rustproofing became a thermal mass which turned that car
> into an oven.  Have you ever been in the attic of a house with an asphalt
> shingle roof on a sunny day?  Similar effect.
> 
> Since I have yet to see an undamaged body panel start rusting at its center,
> all that is really needed is to coat the bottom of the panels on the inside
> and, perhaps, spray a band of the rustproofing on the panel seams.
> 
> George
>