{"id":117,"date":"2004-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:11:08","slug":"bel-air\/painting-rear-axle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Rear Axle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the old wheels from behind the shed and put them on the axle so I could clean it off with the grinders easily. It was much easier to do, and I soon had it all looking shiny. I cleaned it all down with thinners, then masked up the brakes and the pumpkin nuts etc. ready to paint it. I&#8217;d run out of the cheap etch, so I bought some Lechler 2k etch and some 2k black to do the chassis and axle. It sprayed much better, and was a bitch to get off the metal cups I use to mix, so that&#8217;s got to be a good thing!. It&#8217;s grey as well, not yellow.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"426\" alt=\"AxlePrimed.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/AxlePrimed.jpg\" \/>    I opened the big tin of black paint, which was really thin compared to the primers. I mixed it up and thinned it a little as well. It&#8217;s not the correct thinner, but it&#8217;ll be OK for the axle, as the only people who will see it will have been run over. It went on well, and I put a thick coat on and did not worry too much about runs or sags. I only got two where I was trying to spray inside brackets, and overall it looked good. While I was painting, it started to rain and the shell got soaked on the drive. There are a few bare metal patches that have got rust spots on now, but they&#8217;ll get done as soon as it&#8217;s back on the chassis.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"469\" alt=\"AxlePainted.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/AxlePainted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the old wheels from behind the shed and put them on the axle so I could clean it off with the grinders easily. It was much easier to do, and I soon had it all looking shiny. I cleaned it all down with thinners, then masked up the brakes and the pumpkin nuts etc. ready to paint it. I&#8217;d run out of the cheap etch, so I bought some Lechler 2k etch and some 2k black to do the chassis and axle. It sprayed much better, and was a bitch to get off the metal cups I use to mix, so that&#8217;s got to be a good thing!. It&#8217;s grey as well, not yellow.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"426\" alt=\"AxlePrimed.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/AxlePrimed.jpg\" \/>    I opened the big tin of black paint, which was really thin compared to the primers. I mixed it up and thinned it a little as well. It&#8217;s not the correct thinner, but it&#8217;ll be OK for the axle, as the only people who will see it will have been run over. It went on well, and I put a thick coat on and did not worry too much about runs or sags. I only got two where I was trying to spray inside brackets, and overall it looked good. While I was painting, it started to rain and the shell got soaked on the drive. There are a few bare metal patches that have got rust spots on now, but they&#8217;ll get done as soon as it&#8217;s back on the chassis.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"469\" alt=\"AxlePainted.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/AxlePainted.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-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}