Protecting the chassis

[billm]

Having stripped the chassis right down, I've painted it with a primer containing Zinc - which looks similar to the old Red Lead. That should help protect it from any future rust problems. And inside box sections will be sprayed with standard clear Waxoyl.

My options for covering over the chassis primer are either:

1. a black "chassis paint" product
2. POR15
3. black Waxoyl Underseal

but which one ?

Any comments, advice or preferences ?

thanks

[billm]

Hi, smooth black paint finish as factory standard from what I can see.

Its a 50 year old car and it hasn't rotted away yet although that's probably because its been painted in Red Lead and also undersealed at some point over the top of the factory black paint.

Then on top of that was 50 years of muck, oil and grease - so much that when I managed to scrape it all off the chassis was imaculate beneath it.

I guess thats a point to consider. Maybe we get "conditioned" into thinking that we have to over protect the chassis with all these new products when in actuality the miles this car will do in the next 10 years is going to be negligable and certainly won't be during the winter months.

So maybe I should just paint it with a thick'ish smooth black paint

[billm]

Hi Mark
thanks for the advice. I've already applied the etch primer/zinc rust inhibitor now. I'll scotchbrite it to flat it off and then panel wipe it as you did.

However I've been told that black "tractor paint" is the best to spray on a chassis as it has good resistance to oil/petrol/grease etc and a bit tougher than standard paint.

Out of interest what is "mismatch" paint ?

cheers

PS .. your cars looking good .. well done