Cowl Painting question

[blascrw]

OK guys...

here is a question...

My cowl is not rusted at all...maybe some real light surface rust inside from 85 + % humidity and storage...

my question is this...

how do you remove the "flaking" paint from inside the cowl, and how do you paint the inside of the cowl?

any suggestions or ideas?

Ron

 

[69 302/351c]

What year are you referring to? Mine (69) removes with a few small bolts.

 

[allcarfan]

Ron, if you are referring to a 65-68....its a PITA. You can have it media blasted out, then blown through your fresh air ducts into your interior and then Vacuum it out. In order to paint it...phew.....you can dump some black paint in there and smear it around with a long, think paintbrush, but....I dont know how that would look.

 

[blascrw]

an idea...

What do you guys think...

somehow media blast it out...

then seal off the top vents and spray plenty of paint in through the windshield washer holes and hope for enough atomization that it coted the inside???

I DO NOT want to open it up just to clean/paint it...since there is NO rust to be seen, felt or detected....

It is a 65.

Ron

 

[allcarfan]

I say....


Good luck.

BTW: PM ME your number. I have to pick my stuff up from the machine shop on wednesday. Im either going to be in Opelika or in columbus. (They said they would deliver my stuff to columbus and I could pick it up, not sure if that offer is still good or not though)

Shane

 

[67coupe351w]

I had the same situation and the best thing I could come up with came to me when I was staring at bottles of spray on bed liner / undercoater. It has a rust inhibitor in it and connects to a gun on the air compressor. I am not refering to the areosol cans.

I covered the grill opening and sprayed the coating in from the drains on both sides angling the gun in all directions I kept spraying until it started to run out of the drains. I got complete coverage of the inside of the cowl. The product drys hard as a rock so I did have to run a tap through my windsheild wiper mount holes.

The coating is flat black when it dries so it looks fine, and it actually looks blue when you look through the grill opening because of the over spray that went through from painting the exterior.

 

[Ozsum2]

JC Whitney has some undercoating stuff that is tanish in color and comes with the straw type spray system. You could attack it from the cowl vents and or by taking out the glove box and heater box and spraying it in that way and if you put enough in, it could run down hill by jacking up one side. The stuff when dry has sort of a waxy feeling. Like bee's wax. It should seal what ever rust is in there.

 

[Himark]

use a airiator type tube spayer most frequently used by Ziebart. Or make a long wand with holes in end that will spray 360 degrees.