blasting...

At this point I have found so many problems (rust) it looks like my order for pressed sheet metal will be to replace every thing on the bottom of the car and a lot more. The next step is to clean the inside of the car out (no more rubber coating under the paint and no more rust) this way i can see all the seams and lips on the sheet metal so i can replace entire panels and make it appear to have never been changed to begin with. For this I chose a local media blasting company (Premier Dustless Blasting) who came to my house set up a tent in the driveway and blasted the inside of the car with a mixture of glass and water so there is no dust cloud covering my house and my neighbors homes. Difficulties they ran into; the undercoating inside the car, under the car and in the wheel wells proved to be a resilient opponent but time and lots of glass proved to overcome, hard to reach places on the car inside the rear fenders and under the car (because I did not make a rotisserie the underside of the car proved difficult to blast but they worked hard and were able to clean up every thing I needed.

Because the blasting process incorporated water to keep down the dust it also induced flash rust on the car this was taken care of in the clean up process where the excess glass was vacuumed and blown off and the flash rust was wiped off and treated with a rust inhibitor.

the resulting finish will need to be gone over with a wire brush along the seams and then I can move on to the installation of the new pans and repair work to any other effected panels and parts. Now to wait for the panels to arrive!!!