I have to swap a door from a Comet to my Maverick, and am mostly done disassembling. Questions: 1) should I attack the rust inside the door (see pic) or just POR-15 what is showing? 2) should I remove the heavy black "bedliner" stuff from inside the door, or assume that it is keeping a good block on rust and live with it? 3) Should I (or can I) take out the window lifter? It moves pretty smoothly, probably could use a lube job. How hard is an electric window lifter at this point? 4) How do I remove to replace the rubber and felt guides on the window runners and the seal where the window goes up and down into the door? Any other suggestions before I get too much further into this would be appreciated.
1. I would just coat it with one of those good rust preventer paints. 2. Unless there is rust under it, I would leave it alone. Its worked this good so far. 3. I've found the window regulators are rivited in on some cars. If it has bolts, its pretty easy to remove, If its rivited, you will have to drill and rerivit, or use hardware to reinstall. If it works smoothly, it probably dont need fixing. Contact Craig and see if he has the March/April 2004 issue of Short Horns availble. There was an article in there on installing power windows by Tom Hackman. 4. The glass run weather stripping just pulls out. Its much easier to replace of you remove the glass first. AutoKrappers has the correct replacement stuff.
most doors that have the surface rust wont rust all the way through.. unless there is a scratch that exposes bare metal, then it will start to go ... most cars have that rust look on the inside, and are generally ok... its the outside that gets scratched and then starts to rust through
Cool, only rust on the outside is at the top and is only surface rust, just a light sandpaper and it will be gone. None of those rust holes at the bottom, where most of our doors are eaten through. This project just got a bit easier, since I don't have to totally disassemble, or sandblast. I am already about halfway done
I will mess with the inside of the door first, as that will be the hardest to work on, then the outside will be easy...only one small ding that I can probably pound out to almost straight from inside, then sand off the paint and shoot a new coat of something on there. Would I be better off doing a primer and paint coat, even if it is not the final paint color? Or would the next guy have to sand all the way back down to primer before he can do the real paint job? I might do a paint and primer mix, with maybe 15-25% paint, just to add some color and better sealing to the primer...anyone ever done this? Saw a car locally where the guy added a little red paint to his gray primer, and ended up with a shade of purple, which I didn't reallly like, but it was different, and seemed like it would seal out the elements better than the primer alone. I could mix in black or some other color and get a darker gray or something closer to the maroon we will finally paint.
scoop, i would suggest to wear gloves and a shirt you can toss when through. por15 has to wear off the skin and don't let it drip anywhere you don't want it to be for years. ...frank...
Yeah, I have used it twice now. I tend to work in shorts, t-shirt and flip flops. I have permanent black speckles on my toenails. The wife is kind of jealous, little leopard print toes I bought single use rubber gloves for all future work. Use them, then when it is time for the second coat, flip the glove inside out and use it again. Then toss.
I was fortumate enough to have had someone work on my door before I ever bought my comet. They just put a thin thin coat of straight up grease all over everything except the window itself. I've never seen the tinyest bit of rust inside either. Granted, it's dirty as hell.
