2010_06_18 Marlene: Interior Rust Repair
November 12- Laurens’s Metalwork and Water Test
Here’s Tim prepping Laurens’s Mustang for the metalwork we’ll be doing over the next couple of days, replacing all the bondo with lead filler! Pat’s also doing some work, but this time around he’s running a water test to see if we need to do anymore fiberglassing on Laurens’s cowl. As you can see, there is some leaking on the passenger’s side, so Pat and the crew have a little more work to do in that area.
October 30- Laurens’s Cowl Work Update
October 28, 29- Laurens’s Cowl Repair
Here’s our fiberglass work on Laurens’s cowl vents. As you can see, we’ve installed the repair collars and are using fiberglass to do the rest of the necessary sealing. We will be water-testing this work extensively to ensure there are no further leaks, then we will clean up the rough edges of the fiberglass and paint over everything so it looks nice.
October 24- Laurens’s Metalwork and Cowl
Here’s some more pictures of us doing cowl-collar repair work and metalwork on Laurens’s shock tower aprons and suspension mounting brackets.
October 23- Laurens’s Cowl Work and Suspension
We’ve ground away the rust on Laurens’s Mustang’s cowl, and will begin repair and conversion work ASAP. Also, we’ve included shots of the shock aprons and suspension mounting locations on his Mustang, which will need cleaning up and maybe some rust conversion as well before we install the new and restored suspension parts.
PARTS! We have a new shipment of parts in, check them out here: Laurens’s Restoration Page, go down the Parts and Labor section.
October 21- Tom’s Cowl Check
While we’re reassembling Tom’s Mustang, we got up under the dash and checked out his cowls, and they look really good! There isn’t any damage or major rust, so we just converted the surface rust and re-installed the air vents.
October 22- Laurens’s Cowl Inspection
Whew, we’re getting a lot of cowl work coming our way! This time around it’s Laurens’s Fastback, and while it’s not in as bad of condition as we’ve seen before, it does need a little converting and work done on it.
October 21- Adnan’s Cowl Inspection
Yep, we’re doing Adnan’s cowl, too! Unfortunately, the cowl is one area of Mustang restoration that many amateur restorers overlook or simply skip due to the time consuming process needed to properly restore them. This means that we get in Mustangs very often that have cowl leaks. We’ve disassembled Adnan’s interior and are getting up under the dash to begin his cowl repair. As you can see, the cowls (especially around the vent holes) have a lot of rust and some damage, so we’ll need to deal with the rust but also with the missing metal–we usually use fiberglass for these kinds of repairs.
October 20- Laurens’s Cowl and Close-Ups
Here are just some more pictures of what we’ve disassembled and what we’ll be working on under the dash. As you can see, the cowl has a lot of rust on it, but it doesn’t appear to be damaged or have rust rot, so that will mean we shouldn’t have to do extensive repairs to the metal so long as we treat and convert the rust.
