Long time no hear part 2

One of the next big steps was to have the doors put back on the car. 

So after the prime painting the parts with the 2k-Epoxy ground I have covered all the important welding joints with a kind of silicone sealing which is used especially in the car industry. It was Terroson 9100. There is also Terroson 9200 which is the same product but it is black.

 After this, the hinges were also treated with Terroson and the doors were put back onto the car.

Just a word of advice here: You need 1-2 additional pairs of hands to put the doors back into the place. My girlfriend helped me, but even with her extraordinary help we needed to use the car jack to put everything 100% together.

To align everything properly, You need to close the door and make the first alignment so that the clearance between the door and everything else on the back is correct. After that i have tightened the bolts and put the fenders on the car to see if the clearance to the front is correct. After this, remove the fenders, open the door carefully, unscrew the two lower bolts going into the body of the car and lift the door slightly higher than they will be after closing them. I found out that this step is needed as the door is very heavy and after opening it it has no more support at the back and due to the weight lowers itself between 0.5 and 1cm. You can clearly see it by closing the door.

After this tighten all bolts and everything should be in perfect order.

 

The final part was to paint the hinges in the color of the car after a healing period of 2-3 days for the Terroson. I wanted to have it in the outside color as the hinges will be slightly visible from inside of the car after opening of the doors. After two coats of KH0, i have applied another 2 coats of clear coat. The outcome is not the best one but it doesn't have to be perfect.

Finally, after I found some small rust bits in the wheel arch I decided to remove the front suspension and the suspension frame. Nearly 30 minutes of work alone, but moving everything around is PITA if You're alone.

The reason behind removing everything was that since I want to do everything properly i also wanted to remove the found surface rust! At first I wanted to do this with the angular grinder, but after two minutes of overhead work which caused severe pain in the shoulders and hands and the disability to access all corners i decided to switch to centrifugal grinder which, I found out after few Minutes of work, was a bad idea as well because the grinding paper was ripped off by the sharp edges.

So, since I still had the sand blasting material and tools in the garage I decided to give the wheel arches a proper sandblasting! The good thing about this was that on the same day I will get to sandblast the rust treatment in the engine bay as after 3 months of waiting this treatment still wasn't dry and ready to be painted. More on this in the next post :)

CYA