I have not made any major progress over the past two weeks. Today was supposed to be a day of working with the intake manifold, but I ran out of free time quickly. I did start restoring a few parts such as the front turn signals. One of the gaskets had leaked on the right housing and it was completely filled with rust. I am using Rust-Oleum rust converter on the small rust and it did a good job. It goes on milky and turns into a black epoxy when dry. I used a good primer over that and added the reflective paint. It actually came out good. I think I will sand and do one of them again. As you can see from the picture, the reflective paint shows anything not completely smooth. I think a second coat of primer and some light sand paper will make it look new.
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| 2nd attempt after wet sanding |
I have not made any major progress over the past two weeks. Today was supposed to be a day of working with the intake manifold, but I ran out of free time quickly. I did start restoring a few parts such as the front turn signals. One of the gaskets had leaked on the right housing and it was completely filled with rust. I am using Rust-Oleum rust converter on the small rust and it did a good job. It goes on milky and turns into a black epoxy when dry. I used a good primer over that and added the reflective paint. It actually came out good. I think I will sand and do one of them again. As you can see from the picture, the reflective paint shows anything not completely smooth. I think a second coat of primer and some light sand paper will make it look new.
I cleaned the exhaust manifolds, which always leaked on the right side. They are shot. There is a lot of pitting around the gasket area and there is not much left to be milled. I had forgotten that one of the bolts broke off many years ago and it was drilled out. The bolt is not threaded correctly. 
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