Actually these are a sort of woven fabric and are fairly heavy, just not overly so. I do agree about the POR-15. Found that out the hard way some many years ago. Fortunately it had not dried and I was able to remove it PDQ. I just finished turning my newest pair into camo by the simple expedient of doing a rust and scale removal exercise under my Monte prior to repainting the floor of the rear kickup over the rear end. The rear end, for its part, has cooperated nicely by not being there, at all! Took it out last year to work on it and ran out of time to stuff it back in, so it has been sitting on its dolly for almost a year now.
Plan is to refinish the floor, install the UMI cross brace and new KYB shocks, and then rehang it.
Did get the frame rails coated with a liberal layer of Rust Mort this afternoon as well. That was also a bunny suit, complete with full face mask and nitrile glove exercise. Took a combination of roller and brush to apply it as the brush works well for tight crevices and getting into corners and the roller moves material at a faster rate so good for flat surfaces or doing lots of surface in a hurry. That will be drying overnight tonight and tomorrow is the first coat of Rust Check anti-rust primer. After that, the sequence will be exactly like what I did with the S-10 frame.
Along the way I will also be rehanging the driver's door as it has now been mated to its new outer door skin and the adhesive is in the process of curing overnight. Sorry, no pictures of the assembly process, maybe of the semi-finished product; was too busy digging out all the clamps I owned to make sure the seams and edges got mated to each as tight as possible. Blew through pretty much a whole 2-part cartridge of Fusor to do it. Not that I was messy with the application, simply that when you start running that bead of adhesive, there is a lot of running seam to lay bead to. I must have gotten it close to right as there was very little squeeze out between the mated edges when I clamped them. Plus the additional blobs that secure the skin to the side anti crash internal door bar. Steve from the supply shop and I discussed that and he commented that the factory actually used a foam product that attached the skin to the bar but really wasn't an adhesive. It was more about eliminating rattles and oil canning than anything else, which sounds about right because I have salvaged samples of the stuff and it was fairly easy to scrape away from the metal. I don't think the Fusor will release that easy and I doubt that it will be me who tries to do it. (LOL)
Nick
