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I picked off a steering knuckle from a junkyard Celica, removed the ball joint and wheel bearing, and cleaned it with a wire wheel to the point where it seems rust and yuck free. Now it is almost all bare metal and I have two questions:
1) What is the best/easiest way to remove the remaining rust? (I don't have a sand blaster.) 2) What is a good/long-lasting way to protect the bare metal from rusting again? To show what I am talking about I include a photo of the newly cleaned SN next to my Celica's SN (the one with with bent ears). The junkyard SN is the lighter of the two, the golden rust colored one; it came from a red 1995 Celica and is going on a white 1994 Celica: ![]() ![]() Thanks to anyone who takes time to help me by discussing these questions. |
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![]() eastwood. cheaper in home depot ![]() so many products in my picture you see the chassis black extreme, chip resistant and brake fluid resistant. powdercoating is better, i dont have tools, nor do i want to pay a lot... -------------------- Learned a lot in 10 years... I hardly log in anymore, last login Today Sept 6 2019, and I was forced just to clarify a post. LOL
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Enthusiast ![]() ![]() Joined Apr 24, '14 From Durham, NC, USA Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) ![]() |
![]() eastwood. cheaper in home depot ![]() so many products in my picture you see the chassis black extreme, chip resistant and brake fluid resistant. powdercoating is better, i dont have tools, nor do i want to pay a lot... So many products is right. Spent my morning visiting places, looking for the Deox-C and Eastwood paints. At Home Depot the paint fellow told me they did not carry Eastwood, nor did they have Deox-C, but did have other auto spray paints, most by RUSTOLEUM, and a rust eliminator made by KRUD CUTTER. Didn't buy anything. Went to Advance Auto. They didn't carry Eastwood paints or Deox-C. While I was asking about rust removers at Advance Auto, I stumbled into a chatty fellow who said that NAVAL JELLY (now owned by LOCTITE) was just the thing I needed. Claimed he had been a mechanic in the air force for a long time and worked on various high performance Jets, including a lot of rust removal, knew that NAVAL JELLY was a very good product, so long as you kept the reaction out of the reach of oxygen by putting the coated parts in a squeezed down zip-lock or equivalent. Then he went on and identified the more than a dozen classic cars he has bought and restored (including three Porches), but never could bring himself to sell any of them! Offered me the use of his sand blaster whenever I needed! Turns out he lives within a mile of me and spends many hours down as the LKQ junkyard! Maybe we are birds of a feather?. . . maybe an American Eagle and a sparrow. . . ![]() My wife outside in the Tacoma was waiting on me so I was trying to cut the conversation short (we did have frozen foods in the back), yet I was excited by talking with this guy, so as I was saying good bye to him, I just left the store with the bottle of LOCTITE NAVAL JELLY in my hand, and didn't realize I hadn't paid for it till we were almost home and noticed a police car driving right behind me. ![]() Just phoned that branch of Advance Auto and turned myself in! BTW: Would that "Prep & Etch" phosphoric soln be the best thing for my case, or is the Naval Jelly good enough just before painting? Went and read all the info on the HD website, and it seems like it would do the job, and I have some other, smaller parts that could use what's left of it when I finish. This post has been edited by Langing: Jun 15, 2014 - 1:10 PM |
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