Re: IML: Hood Rust

["Frederick Joslin" <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi David:

 

I had a similar experience with a fender that I purchased for my 69 LeBaron. For this I got the biggest one of the plastic storage totes that I could find and put about 5 gallons of generic Coke in it and added some rust remover. After a couple of weeks it had done some good to the part that was in the solution. My problem was the shape and size of the fender. These things are monsters.

 

Your hood is pretty flat. Could you get some plastic sheeting and set it up as a catch basin for your rust removing solution. I bet you could set a frame of 2x4s on a garage floor around the hood to hold the sheet. Coke works OK to remove rust. Phosphoric acid is better and there are the commercially available products. Another option is to set the hood up so that you can spray the rust remover onto it and have it drain back into some catch basin.    

 

Let us know.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Dimitriou"
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: IML: Hood Rust
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:50 -0700 (PDT)

I'm working the hood right now of my 62 restoration project. It has some light rust along the seams. After removing it I've discovered that it must have a fair amount of rust on the inside. I was a bit surprised since the car is rather rust free other than some on the tail below the trunk lid. But when turning the hood from side to side and end to end there results a good amount of rattling and clatering as the rust debris moves about. I actually sheared a bolt when I took it off. But that's another story. What I am asking about today is has anyone has dealt with this kind of rust on the inside of a hood before. I need to treat the rust but have no real access other than the few openings in the bottom panels. I'm sure I could give a shop lot's-o money and they would dip the entire thing in something caustic to treat it. As you know that hood is gonna take a pretty big tank. So I was looking for a solution that did not include the lot's-o money part.

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Fred Joslin