Hi Simon,
My 4/4 had also spent much of its 8 years before I had it doing nothing.
Rust had started under the wings - although it had been undersealed in 80s
style, the stuff was coming off in sheets, revealing light surface rust
beneath. If there had been any primer on those wings before they were
undersealed, it came away with the underseal. I tackled this the first
winter I had the car and am jolly glad I did. I stopped the rot pretty
effectively and top-ups since have helped maintain the wings in pretty good
shape.
Cheers,
Owen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Fay" <[email protected]>
To: "mogtalk2" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Wing management
Thanks Owen,
I suppose my question was is it likely that I can preserve the life of the
wings significantly by trying to tackle this now. I mentioned the edge
issue to Kevin vernon when I first noticed it and his comment was that the
die had been cast long before my ownership of the car. The car is waxoyled
now and I think it had been done prior to my stewardship, but I think the
car had been a bit of a garage queen in its previous life, but I don't
think much preventative medicine had ever really been done - I think it
had only ever been serviced when it changed hands for its first 21 years
Simon
On 11 Aug 2012, at 10:52, Owen Jenkins wrote:
Simon,
Older wings have the edges rolled around wire. If you have corrosion
coming through from the inside, there is very little you can do about
it, if you failed to arrest it early on. Waxoyl is very effective at
stopping corrosion (by excluding water and oxygen), but you must get
things properly dried out before attempting to do so. Drying out water
from inside rolled edges is no mean feat.
My 4/4 is 24 years old, but it has had lashings of Waxoyl splashed around
under it over the years, topped up regularly. The result is that it is
not doing this. I was looking at a chum's 42 year-old 4 seater on
Thursday and he has plenty of rust coming through in the same place as
yours. Rusty though it might be, the original wings are still in place.
So, it's up to you - stay with the low-cost, temporary remedial action
and think of it as patina, or get the wings off and really do the job on
them (blast cleaning etc.), if they are otherwise still sound. If they
aren't, it's time for new wings.
Cheers,
Owen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Fay" <[email protected]>
To: "mogtalk2" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 9:57 AM
Subject: [mogtalk2] Wing management
Following on from Tims comments re wing degradation. Some views on
management would be appreciated. My 4/4 is almost 24 years old with
original steel wings and paint. I have noticed over the last 12 months
or so some increasing bubbling along the wing edges. and there are a few
chips on the front faces of the wings.
I have been using one of those touch up kits from halfords, here and
there, but I wonder what longer term strategy I should employ. Is it
worth (or possible) to deal just with the bubbly edges getting then
smoothed out and repainted - the rest of the pain on the wings is in
pretty good shape. Or should I just keep on touching up the flaky paint
on the edges and replace the whole wings when they are thoroughly
rotten.
Cheers for thoughts
Simon
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