Refurbing wishbones ?

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:38 pm

IIRC Uldis and someone else had a bash at this any tips / comments ? When workign on the car yesterday it did make me shiver looking at the state of the them.
Is it a car os getting them off, wirebrush attachment and then hammerite them ?

How about bead blasting etc ?

At what point do they become dangerously corroded ?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:41 pm

Hammerite won't last long, need powder coating really I would think.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:47 pm

What about the getting rid of the rust et c?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:59 pm

Probably not worth it...

woody · Post by **woody** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:13 pm

its just surface grot, wouldn't worry for the next 20 or so years.

IMO, refurb would have to be off car plastic media blast, followed by a heavy grit blast and powder coat to be worthwile. Probably ITRO £15-20 a wishbone.

jj · Post by jj » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:30 pm

I am sure someone on here with a VX220 posted up pics of theirs after they had been done.

edit; found it here http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... =wishbones

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:24 pm

I would not bother with removing the rust,.. but I'm sure removing the mole grips would tidy things up a bit

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:30 pm

Mike make stopping in a straight line easier too...

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:03 am

I had mine shot blasted then just painted and they come up like brand new. It was a mate that did for me and he charged me 60 quid so not out of it. Trouble is he needed them for a few days so you need to do without your car.

Uldis · Post by **Uldis** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:42 am

That was one of the things I wanted to do to my car. A whole suspension refurb, same thinking, don't like rust.

There are two ways IMO, sandblast and powder coat (needs removal) or wirebrush, rust inhibitor and rust chassis paint (can be done in place).
Can't find the links now, but somebody in the UK does a very good rust cleaning dip and following paint that supposedly stays forever on.

Not sure which way I'm going yet. Guess it depends if I remove/change the balljoints (which are perfectly good, but in my line of work you change things that are perfectly good BECAUSE you don't want any failure).

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:13 am

Frosts do something called POR15 which is supposed to be very good. Not cheap though!

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:05 pm

heres a pic of mine after shotblasting and painting.

come up really well.

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:18 pm

Cleaner than the inside of the car too!

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:53 am

Be fair rich

The car was in a million bits at the time!
PS Just been checking for as show blaster and sealey sells one for £60. Still you need a big compresser and sand, gauntlet gloves are not included. Still its quite reasonable.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:50 am

You got a link as I know a man who might be interested as he restores a lot of old cars...