![]() ![]() Next job remove 30 years of grease and grime. This meant removing the steering rack, brake servo, and wiring, to facilitate engine bay painting. Now we are going to repaint the engine bay, courtesy of our local body shop. Originally we were only going to address a few minor areas of corrosion. Here's how the chassis leg, which had the big hole hiding under the K-Jetronic airbox, is looking now, as the major welding nears completion More progress on the repair to correct corrosion by the front subframe mount With the panel now welded in place the repair is taking shape, by the time we've finished it will be hard to see where the repair was ![]() New Repair Panel in place - this steel has light zinc coating - great for long term life, but you have to be careful to remove the zinc coating by the area you are welding. ![]() Here we've cut all the old rot away - next step to fabricate a repair panel This hole developed from a poorly executed previous repair, which allowed water to enter the box section and then it rotted from inside out.Īlthough repairs were made near the subframe - this corrosion was not seen under the airbox, and here water entered to wreak havoc on the existing chassis repair When you see a bit of corrosion on an old car - it's usually worse underneath.īe very wary when you see great globs of underseal - when removed it's probably hiding a less than professional repair, which is rotting underneath the underseal Balance Motor Works have recently finished restoring an Audi 90 Quattro (well it started as an engine rebuild but look what we found in the engine bay) ![]()
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