Front Beam

16th October
Complete disaster.  Turned the floor pan right side up, and started looking at tiny bits of reaction of the KBS coating on the frame head.  One thing lead to another and in an attempt to investigate, I ended up taking the entire coating off.


Even though the 3 step process was followed to the letter, the coating has not bonded to the metal at all, and although there was no surface rust before, surface rust was found under the paint.

 

So the Rust blast obviously didn't work, and the rust seal paint didn't bond.  The big question is what to do with the entire floor pan?  Do I strip it off now or hope that it has bonded better.

I have checked the pan, and at the minute I have left it as is.  See below a photo of the front end now re-sprayed in Hammerite and rebuilt front beam fitted.


The steering box came up pretty good after a good clean.