Fortunately the channel is in good shape after sanding and removing rust that has built up over the last 25 years or so. The weather strip is in good shape with the exception of rust that is kind of embedded into the weather strip. I washed with dawn and a 3m abrasive strip and there is kind of a rust embedded in some of the weather stripping. I wonder if there is a product to remove the residue??
I was thinking of using the pad again; but this time with it dipped in muriatic acid. What do you guys think of this? I think the muriatic acid that comes in a plastic bottle will not harm the rubber weather stripping. Is there another product that I could use that you would think might do the trick?
I ended up using BartendersBestFriend and steel wool. Yes $25 plus ship, plus tax. My $100 hood repair has turned into $1000. That extra $40 will buy me a new tool to help with the trunk repair.
Hood is completely stripped and was painted in epoxy primer last Friday. The paint camera has found a color with a 1.0 match, evidently anything with a 2.0 or less is suppose to be a good match. The painter will do a couple of spray outs and fine tune from there. The weather stripping cleaned up fine with minimal effort and is in excellent condition and is a replacement (maybe in late 90’s).
The trunk weather strip channel was in excellent condition except for the very back 5’ with some surface rust. If the car was to be repainted now that area would have to be completely taken down to bare metal and refinished. I did remove all rust from that area then applied a rust converter and then put the weatherstripping back in.
The $100 figure was just an emphasis figure not realistic. I paid $450 to fix 1 paint fracture on the top of my SS hood along with stripping the bottom and repainting the bottom.
-- Edited by jim larson on Sunday 23rd of February 2020 09:18:47 AM
-- Edited by jim larson on Sunday 23rd of February 2020 09:40:28 AM