Just undersealed her. Yuk.
Discussion
Having bought my first Cerb on Wednesday, I intend to use her daily, and as such the first stop (after the obligatory couple of days driving to see if I can manage to kill myself on the cold, wet roads) was to clean her soft underbelly and seal her up against the nasty Mr Salty Road.
Took her down to my mate's workshop Friday lunchtime and cleaned the underside, albeit taking Craig from TrackVRoad's advice to steer clear of the engine bay! (we like dry engines that start and run on all 8 cylinders). Then tucked her away in my mate's heated workshop overnight to dry off.
Went for a few beers that evening. Then we might have sneaked a cheeky Tequila or two in. And some Jaegermeister. And a couple of cocktails.
Ow.
Sat morning was particularly unpleasant but a couple of bacon'n'egg McMuffins, 3 hash browns, half a litre of diet coke (I'm watching my figure, don't you know) followed by a couple of meat'n'potato pasties later on just about brought me up to some sort of functional, sub-human level.
Got the car raised up and went through the underside with a stiff wire brush and cleaned off any remaining crud (hardly any) and any flaking powder coating. It had been previously undersealed (looks like the outriggers have been Schultz'd) and was in really very good nick. Yes, some flaking powdercoat but no nasty rust surprises whatsoever - a testament to it's previous owner
So I scrubbed her down and then (after a few brews to warm up) we got serious with the Waxoyl.
Why Waxoyl and not Schultz? Talking to TrackVRoad, Craig strongly reocommended it over Schultz because if you use the clear Waxoyl you can still see the chassis, and any creeping problems that may occur. With Schultz, although it's good, it totally hides everything it covers so you can know nothing of, and therefore have no chance to take early preventative measures against, any developing problems.
The only downside to spraying Waxoyl at -3 degrees is that it's relatively solid. It needs warming up to make it thin, watery and sprayable, so we plonked the tins in a sink of very hot water and kept having to pop back to it every few minutes once the Waxoyl turned became more wax than oyl. Oil. Oily oyl. hmmm.....
Anyway, the conclusion is that Waxoyl stinks and is horrid stuff to breathe in. The whole car (and the whole Jim) had a fine waxy coating afterwards, as the stuff just gets atomised into the air - so do NOT roll the car out of the bodyshop and think to yourself "Hmmm. The windscreen looks a little mucky. I'll just put the wipers on.....". Instant horribly smeared waxy glass.
But she's well coated underneath now and I just need to give her a nice hot soapy bath/wash to clean off the waxy residue from the bodywork. A nasty job well done. Have to say that it'd be a much, much easier job up on a set of hydraulic ramps rather than axle stands, but it's thoroughly do-able as a DIY job nonetheless.
Am thinking I might just do the Waxoyling every winter - it's got to be a good habit to give the whole chassis a good checking over and recoating, but I'd thoroughly recommend NOT drinking a skinful the night before
Took her down to my mate's workshop Friday lunchtime and cleaned the underside, albeit taking Craig from TrackVRoad's advice to steer clear of the engine bay! (we like dry engines that start and run on all 8 cylinders). Then tucked her away in my mate's heated workshop overnight to dry off.
Went for a few beers that evening. Then we might have sneaked a cheeky Tequila or two in. And some Jaegermeister. And a couple of cocktails.
Ow.
Sat morning was particularly unpleasant but a couple of bacon'n'egg McMuffins, 3 hash browns, half a litre of diet coke (I'm watching my figure, don't you know) followed by a couple of meat'n'potato pasties later on just about brought me up to some sort of functional, sub-human level.
Got the car raised up and went through the underside with a stiff wire brush and cleaned off any remaining crud (hardly any) and any flaking powder coating. It had been previously undersealed (looks like the outriggers have been Schultz'd) and was in really very good nick. Yes, some flaking powdercoat but no nasty rust surprises whatsoever - a testament to it's previous owner
So I scrubbed her down and then (after a few brews to warm up) we got serious with the Waxoyl.Why Waxoyl and not Schultz? Talking to TrackVRoad, Craig strongly reocommended it over Schultz because if you use the clear Waxoyl you can still see the chassis, and any creeping problems that may occur. With Schultz, although it's good, it totally hides everything it covers so you can know nothing of, and therefore have no chance to take early preventative measures against, any developing problems.
The only downside to spraying Waxoyl at -3 degrees is that it's relatively solid. It needs warming up to make it thin, watery and sprayable, so we plonked the tins in a sink of very hot water and kept having to pop back to it every few minutes once the Waxoyl turned became more wax than oyl. Oil. Oily oyl. hmmm.....
Anyway, the conclusion is that Waxoyl stinks and is horrid stuff to breathe in. The whole car (and the whole Jim) had a fine waxy coating afterwards, as the stuff just gets atomised into the air - so do NOT roll the car out of the bodyshop and think to yourself "Hmmm. The windscreen looks a little mucky. I'll just put the wipers on.....". Instant horribly smeared waxy glass.
But she's well coated underneath now and I just need to give her a nice hot soapy bath/wash to clean off the waxy residue from the bodywork. A nasty job well done. Have to say that it'd be a much, much easier job up on a set of hydraulic ramps rather than axle stands, but it's thoroughly do-able as a DIY job nonetheless.
Am thinking I might just do the Waxoyling every winter - it's got to be a good habit to give the whole chassis a good checking over and recoating, but I'd thoroughly recommend NOT drinking a skinful the night before
Jim27 said:
The only downside to spraying Waxoyl at -3 degrees is that it's relatively solid. It needs warming up to make it thin, watery and sprayable, so we plonked the tins in a sink of very hot water and kept having to pop back to it every few minutes once the Waxoyl turned became more wax than oyl. Oil. Oily oyl. hmmm.....
I think that was my problem when I did mine the other xmas. It was too cold to do properly. I waxoiled the garage walls, floor and myself more than the car.
MackemPete said:
What did you use to clean the underside? A Pressure washer?
Pressure washer with soap on lowest pressure - used it on the whole of the underside from the gearbox back. At the front I carefully used it just in the front wheelarches. When the car was up on axle stands we then used a cloth to wipe clean under and around the engine itself, where we hadn't dared use the washer.No misfires or any other problem - old girl runs like a dream so looks like we did good
Kojak - we had a sink of boiling water and kept topping it up with fresh kettle loads as fast as we could boil them. Left the Waxoyl tin in the sink so it was nice and hot and then just kept putting the spraygun & cast feeder bottle in the water for a couple of minutes every time it go a bit too thick to spray. Took ages but worked a treat
Edited by Jim27 on Monday 24th December 13:41
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