{"id":115,"date":"2004-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:11:54","slug":"bel-air\/back-half-frame-gets-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Back Half of the Frame Gets Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve run out of doors, and have no space in the garage for any more panels. It also looked like a warzone, so I decided to tidy up a bit and clean the frame off in preperation for fitting the axle. I pulled the plastic sheet off the engine, and put all the boxes that were sat between the rails out on the drive. It was raining on and off, so I put the sheet on the boxes and a coat over the motor. It washed a load of the dust off anyway. After a few hours with the grinders I had the majority of the rear two thirds cleaned.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"249\" alt=\"FrameFront.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/FrameFront.jpg\" \/>  I did the underneath with a wire brush to get the worst of the dirt off, and I&#8217;ll hopefully tip the frame on it&#8217;s side when the motor comes out again and paint it then. I gave it a quick sand, and cleaned it all off with thinners. At this point I vacced up and blew it all clean ready to paint. I used the clarke gun again, with the pressure set higher than last time, and a bit more thinners. I sprayed two quite heavy coats on, and it only ran where I put loads on to try and fill inside a bracket. Gave it twenty minutes or so to harden up a bit, and then tried to push it back in. God knows how I did it last time, as it nearly killed me pushing it. I ended up having to lever against the wheels, as I just couldn&#8217;t get it up the little ramp. The sooner the axle is on, the better.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"325\" alt=\"FrameEtched.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/FrameEtched.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve run out of doors, and have no space in the garage for any more panels. It also looked like a warzone, so I decided to tidy up a bit and clean the frame off in preperation for fitting the axle. I pulled the plastic sheet off the engine, and put all the boxes that were sat between the rails out on the drive. It was raining on and off, so I put the sheet on the boxes and a coat over the motor. It washed a load of the dust off anyway. After a few hours with the grinders I had the majority of the rear two thirds cleaned.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"249\" alt=\"FrameFront.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/FrameFront.jpg\" \/>  I did the underneath with a wire brush to get the worst of the dirt off, and I&#8217;ll hopefully tip the frame on it&#8217;s side when the motor comes out again and paint it then. I gave it a quick sand, and cleaned it all off with thinners. At this point I vacced up and blew it all clean ready to paint. I used the clarke gun again, with the pressure set higher than last time, and a bit more thinners. I sprayed two quite heavy coats on, and it only ran where I put loads on to try and fill inside a bracket. Gave it twenty minutes or so to harden up a bit, and then tried to push it back in. God knows how I did it last time, as it nearly killed me pushing it. I ended up having to lever against the wheels, as I just couldn&#8217;t get it up the little ramp. The sooner the axle is on, the better.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"325\" alt=\"FrameEtched.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/FrameEtched.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}