SERIES III 2.25 PETROL
Meet Gerald
The latest addition to my Land Rover family. The Series III 88'' Petrol affectionately named Gerald.
Just a few days from the initial message about the Land Rover going for sale, the car arrived via trailer and was parked on my driveway.
Time to scrub up!
My first job was to give the Land Rover a good clean, which I did with a jet wash, some TFR, a brush and a lot of elbow grease.
SHIELDER CHASSIS
Preparing the chassis
Applying the Mordant Solution T-Wash to the chassis ready for painting.
For those that don’t know - you cannot paint directly onto the fresh zinc as the paint will not adhere to it. It must first be given a key to stick to which is what this product does. It’s basically an acid that etches the surface. From what I’ve read it also stabilises newly galvanised parts.
I have decided to paint the chassis for a few reasons - To give it further protection, make less eye catching to thieves and also to give it a more original look.
Applying the primer
Spraying the primer, this is the first of two coats of Corroless S.
All edges were stripe coated first. The paint was completely touch dry within 2 hours. Hard dry and ready for another coat in 4 hours with the ambient temperature being around 18 degrees.
Applying the top coat
Applying the top coat - Corroless RF16 Glass Reinforced top coat.
Paint gun used was just my budget HVLP with a 1.4mm fluid tip, thinned around 10%.
I will also note that the Corroless S primer was a much thicker paint, for this I used a Devilbiss FLG5 with a 1.8mm tip. Though to be honest I could have done with a 2.0mm tip as I ended up having to thin to around 30% to get enough paint through the gun. Ambient temperature again around 18 degrees.
The finished chassis
That’s the chassis painting now done!
The galvanised Shielder chassis now has two coats of Corroless S and two coats of Corroless RF16.
All that is left to do now is treat the internals. So sticking with Corroless, I shall be using their CCI 450 clear corrosion Inhibiting Wax.