hi,
washed (in complete darkness with an LED headlamp, so not exactly the best wash)>
still not a pretty sight
, sharp eyed viewers would however noticed the original Viva club stickers are in tact and still in good condition
I treated the passenger floorpan with the phosphoric acid and a wire brush. so when i left it it had a slime mush of rust brown goo left on the floor.
I can back the next day to take a look and the liquid had evaporated (the fan heater is still installed) , leaving a clean floor. the rust had mainly dissolved and turned black, leaving a floor and the blue paint showing.
the neat thing is the remaining "black" residue is stable and hard and can be painted directly over.
i did a stamp test on the floor pan and it is very solid so even if the rest of the car turns out to be a headache, the front passenger floorpan is good to go
said floorpan, i had brushed it with a wire brush to check for loose stuff etc.. may give it a second brush coat of the acid as some untreated brown bits showed through after the wire brushing.
Have been removing loose rust in the boot wells and under the bonnet as well as duct taping over the topside holes so as to keep the rain out (it is stored outside).
not had a lot of time to work on it though so will resume rust stabilising somewhen this week possibly.. stopping the rust cycle seems a good start , before attacking the holes and cosmetics.
Redex in engine oil..
I used a bit of logical thinking with redex some years ago, it is napthan which is a petroleum based detergent/lube and at the time i had had bought for next to nothing a rover 820 off somebody as it had an engine problem.
The service history was huge and all related to a problem with sticking valves one one cylinder. sure enough it would randomly lose a cylinder and not return it for many miles , which was rather inconvenient, not to mention dangerous.
I had a chat to an ex rover engine guy and he confirmed it was some design clearance issue. this most likely that meant even the smallest amount of oil caking onto the valve stem would make it stick..
i lobbed half a bottle of redex into the oil, it is a gum dissolving detergent, it will co-exist with oil.. the car was cheap, if it didnt work, nothing lost etc...
within 10 miles the problem vanished and never came back.. i was happy , the former keeper less so as he had driven it 20k with the problem (masochist?!). I drove that around the country for a couple of years and eventually disposed of it when the front suspension went all odd.
I did similar with an old carlton, drove that until 195000 miles, the end of life for that car was its bodywork fizzed away and at that time the need for a car for work meant i had no time to spend trying to patch it up.
The only caveat i would say is don't use it if you think you may have a weak head gasket as a peugeot 306 had unknowingly been bodged to hide a HG leak and the redex found it and cleaned out the bodge nicely.
but then as i suspect engine flush has a similar behaviour then it would equally be unwise in that extreme.
I have the new oil filter and oil on standby.. need to check the fuel tank to see what condition it is in. unsure as to why it was unplugged from the pump. could be somebody wanted to try and fire it up without putting fuel in the tank , or the tank has a hole in it , pipes leaking etc...
Want to run it on fast idle with the redex in both fuel/oil for longer than the makeshift tank will allow before doing the oil+filter change.
cheers
Bill
HBPeter wrote:Brilliant, if the floors are good and it runs ok, maybe not as bad as it first looked. Never heard of redex in the oil before. Be a good idea to change oil and filter before you run it for longer periods.
Peter