Again im lost with this car ive never painted an engine or even leaned one lol.. whats the first step i was thinking?
1. oven cleaner
2. pressure wash it or garden hose
3.sand old paint off
4 wipe down with a prep paint or varsol on a cloth
5 paint
Right?
427carl said
May 7, 2011
sounds good
4SPEED427 said
May 7, 2011
You'll get many opinons!
All I ever do is wash it down with brake cleaner and paint. Don't use varsol as your final cleaner because it's a petroleum base and not what you want to use for that. To degrease it's fine but final cleaner should be alcohol.
Canadian Poncho said
May 7, 2011
And don't wreck your mom's driveway..
jonathanD said
May 7, 2011
here is the issue the driveway is gone =) ill put some ply wood under it to save whats left =)
Pontiacanada said
May 8, 2011
Jonathan,
If you are going to run this engine in the car until you rebuild your 283 (you said that in another thread), don't go too overboard on it. Save your time, labour, and $$$ for other things. Just give it a quick clean up, and rev it up.
I had a '77 Cutlass that had a trans leak. It ate a nice-sized crater in my parents driveway ... I never heard the end of it!
2drpost said
May 8, 2011
scrub, scrap off the dirt, grease with varsol,
get one of those cheap wire wheels that mount in a drill, clean the remaining loose crap off,
brake clean it all, blow dry and paint it.
'chevrolet orange' of course.
Captain Beaumont said
May 8, 2011
Safety tip!!! have lots of ventilation when using the brake cleaner, and NO SPARKS!!!
the fumes from it are NASTY.
-- Edited by Captain Beaumont on Sunday 8th of May 2011 10:56:07 AM
jonathanD said
May 8, 2011
My paint i got ON Sale soooo it only only 5 bucks a can so i bought green..... LOL i thought it would be cool =)
Tin Man Auto said
May 8, 2011
jonathanD wrote:
Again im lost with this car ive never painted an engine or even leaned one lol.. whats the first step i was thinking?
1. oven cleaner
2. pressure wash it or garden hose
3.sand old paint off
4 wipe down with a prep paint or varsol on a cloth
5 paint
Right?
Hey Johnathon, what we do is use a degreaser on the motor, oven cleaner works, we power wash it, then we take a torch to it on low heat and it burns out the grease in the pores then last steps is we use laquer thinner as a final wipe down (not varsol~has a oily base) and never had a problem with flake off at all. Good luck dave
Beaumont4008 said
May 8, 2011
jonathanD wrote:
My paint i got ON Sale soooo it only only 5 bucks a can so i bought green..... LOL i thought it would be cool =)
Would that be John deer green. At least if you get any on the neighbors grass he might not notice. LoL
jonathanD said
May 8, 2011
Beaumont4008 wrote:
jonathanD wrote:
My paint i got ON Sale soooo it only only 5 bucks a can so i bought green..... LOL i thought it would be cool =)
Would that be John deer green. At least if you get any on the neighbors grass he might not notice. LoL
Grabber green LOL you will love it =)
Led Zeppelin said
May 8, 2011
jonathanD wrote:
My paint i got ON Sale soooo it only only 5 bucks a can so i bought green..... LOL i thought it would be cool =)
So you want to go green.Well if its not going to be in the car for a long time, go for it!
but you may get tired of looking at it
As for wasting time doing prep work and doing it right on a motor that is only going to
be in the car for awhile, I'd say your not wasting time if your learning something.It will
only make your next motor look even better because of what you have already learnt
here's a green motor from a 55 chev that I've done some work on..Kinda makes your eyes go krazy after awhile Keep in mind that this one has aluminum heads so you will see more green on yours
455gto said
May 22, 2011
Degreaser, wire wheel, dremel in the small area's then tach cloth it to get all the fine sanding off.
Again im lost with this car ive never painted an engine or even leaned one lol.. whats the first step i was thinking?
1. oven cleaner
2. pressure wash it or garden hose
3.sand old paint off
4 wipe down with a prep paint or varsol on a cloth
5 paint
Right?
sounds good
You'll get many opinons!
All I ever do is wash it down with brake cleaner and paint. Don't use varsol as your final cleaner because it's a petroleum base and not what you want to use for that. To degrease it's fine but final cleaner should be alcohol.
here is the issue the driveway is gone =) ill put some ply wood under it to save whats left =)
Jonathan,
If you are going to run this engine in the car until you rebuild your 283 (you said that in another thread), don't go too overboard on it. Save your time, labour, and $$$ for other things. Just give it a quick clean up, and rev it up.
I had a '77 Cutlass that had a trans leak. It ate a nice-sized crater in my parents driveway ... I never heard the end of it!
scrub, scrap off the dirt, grease with varsol,
get one of those cheap wire wheels that mount in a drill, clean the remaining loose crap off,
brake clean it all, blow dry and paint it.
'chevrolet orange' of course.
Safety tip!!! have lots of ventilation when using the brake cleaner, and NO SPARKS!!!
the fumes from it are NASTY.
-- Edited by Captain Beaumont on Sunday 8th of May 2011 10:56:07 AM
My paint i got ON Sale soooo it only only 5 bucks a can so i bought green..... LOL i thought it would be cool =)
Hey Johnathon, what we do is use a degreaser on the motor, oven cleaner works, we power wash it, then we take a torch to it on low heat and it burns out the grease in the pores then last steps is we use laquer thinner as a final wipe down (not varsol~has a oily base) and never had a problem with flake off at all. Good luck dave
Would that be John deer green. At least if you get any on the neighbors grass he might not notice. LoL
Grabber green LOL you will love it =)
So you want to go green.Well if its not going to be in the car for a long time, go for it!
but you may get tired of looking at it
As for wasting time doing prep work and doing it right on a motor that is only going to
be in the car for awhile, I'd say your not wasting time if your learning something.It will
only make your next motor look even better because of what you have already learnt
here's a green motor from a 55 chev that I've done some work on..Kinda makes your eyes go krazy after awhile
Keep in mind that this one has aluminum heads so you will see more green on yours
Degreaser, wire wheel, dremel in the small area's then tach cloth it to get all the fine sanding off.