{"id":61,"date":"2003-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:58:09","slug":"bel-air\/cleaning-front-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning The Front End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was 47 years of grime covering the front end of the car. After scraping half an inch of oil and underseal off it looked a load better. Now I could actually see the brake lines, I could take them off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/FrameScraped.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FrameScraped.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They are kinked and crushed in places, so I hacksawed through them and removed the master cylinder. After 5 minutes with a wire brush, I got the drill out and used the wire brush attachment!.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/FrameCleaned.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FrameCleaned.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three hours later, I had clean metal but it was starting to get dark and rain. Rather than leave all this bare metal in a damp garage, I decided to clean the grease off with white spirit followed by thinners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/FramePainted.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FramePainted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick coat of black Smootherite later, and the frame started to look as good as new. I&#8217;d rather have to paint this a couple of times than leave it all bare, as the garage is seriously damp for some reason. I need to get some spring compressors so I can take the suspension off and clean it without removing an eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was 47 years of grime covering the front end of the car. After scraping half an inch of oil and underseal off it looked a load better. Now I could actually see the brake lines, I could take them off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/FrameScraped.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FrameScraped.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They are kinked and crushed in places, so I hacksawed through them and removed the master cylinder. After 5 minutes with a wire brush, I got the drill out and used the wire brush attachment!.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/FrameCleaned.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FrameCleaned.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three hours later, I had clean metal but it was starting to get dark and rain. Rather than leave all this bare metal in a damp garage, I decided to clean the grease off with white spirit followed by thinners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/FramePainted.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FramePainted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick coat of black Smootherite later, and the frame started to look as good as new. I&#8217;d rather have to paint this a couple of times than leave it all bare, as the garage is seriously damp for some reason. I need to get some spring compressors so I can take the suspension off and clean it without removing an eye.<\/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-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}