Date:         Tue, 4 Apr 2006 21:31:32 +0200
Reply-To:     Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@ZORCK.DK>
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From:         Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@ZORCK.DK>
Subject:      Update on rust-bucket project - and radiator undertray warning
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Hi all

I think that I forgot to mention that goal on rust-bucket-bus, is to
have it for 2 years, and a max of 3000 km.

I do not drive that much.

Tomorrow is big day, we'll get it on a lift and see from below how
the options are.

Today I attacked some of the rustspots in the floor in the passenger
compartment.

Some was very fast grinded away, but in one area I got a surprise,
when I began sanding, it showed that the bottom is so thin, that
itjust got more and more holes! Sigh.........................

Sprayed the bare metal with zink-paint,    90% zink :-)

BTW, looked in at the frontgrill.

Found a VERY wet piece af "mat" in there, attached to the lower of
the radiator. According to Haynes it is the radiator undertray - but
it was soaking wet.

SO I understand some of the bad rust at the front,    as the radiator
undertray has acted as a sponge, keeping the area very wet.

Check out your radiator undertray, and make sure it isnt a sponge.

Seems like something

/JJ