JimKueneman
Mopar Nut
Well my Coronet is going on almost 8 months of the SPI make over and the other day I was Fast Waxing it and noticed on the rear quarter panel way down low behind the rear wheel a rather large (to my way of thinking) number of bubbles under the paint developing .....
I did metal work in that area so I am having a hard time believing it is rust coming back through, especially with the number of them. The car has not seen water since I have restored it. The panel was solid but it had some weak places and I patched it. My gut says the problem is I really suck at welding almost upside down (the panel rolls under the car in this area) and I have some places where I did not get all the residue from the weld out of a few pinholes here and there and it is outgassing. I did fill the area with waterproof fiberglass reinforced filler so I should have filled them but.... Just won't know till I dig into it. I should have bit the bullet and sandblasted the area after I welded but I only wire brushed and sanded it.
Question are should I completely strip the paint from the area, rework it or do I just work the areas with the problems and sand off what I need to? The car has a really sharp body line about 12" up from the bottom behind the wheel so there is a perfect place to blend it in and make it impossible to tell I reworked. Even a if the color does not exactly match the change in angle at the body line make the hit this area radical different anyway so it won't be noticeable.
Thanks, from what I read this is not really an uncommon thing to occur. Is that true?
Thanks,
Jim
I did metal work in that area so I am having a hard time believing it is rust coming back through, especially with the number of them. The car has not seen water since I have restored it. The panel was solid but it had some weak places and I patched it. My gut says the problem is I really suck at welding almost upside down (the panel rolls under the car in this area) and I have some places where I did not get all the residue from the weld out of a few pinholes here and there and it is outgassing. I did fill the area with waterproof fiberglass reinforced filler so I should have filled them but.... Just won't know till I dig into it. I should have bit the bullet and sandblasted the area after I welded but I only wire brushed and sanded it.
Question are should I completely strip the paint from the area, rework it or do I just work the areas with the problems and sand off what I need to? The car has a really sharp body line about 12" up from the bottom behind the wheel so there is a perfect place to blend it in and make it impossible to tell I reworked. Even a if the color does not exactly match the change in angle at the body line make the hit this area radical different anyway so it won't be noticeable.
Thanks, from what I read this is not really an uncommon thing to occur. Is that true?
Thanks,
Jim