Biggs, Where Are You?!

 

 

 

So, a couple weeks ago I went to work and used the blast cabinet to clean up Matilda's bumper brackets.

 

They all looked pretty junky when I started, dirty and rusty.  I worked my way through one of each type and then took before and after pictures.

 

Before:

 

After:

After I did one of each type, I worked my way through the rest, starting with the biggest one and working my way down to the smallest one, so that it would seem like it was going quicker as I went.  Then I took everything back to the truck and discovered that I had left the two biggest brackets in the truck.  Nuts.  So the last two took me an hour each.

So then this past weekend I took some more stuff over there to clean it up.  I spent a solid eight hours there on Saturday, and then went back for another hour and a half or so on Sunday.  By the time I was finished, I think I was just starting to get good at setting up the cabinet for best results.  There will probably be more stuff to blast before I'm done, though.

Blower motor housing and heater core housing:

Oil pan and rocker covers:

Timing cover and intake manifold:

So now my big concern is how to make sure I get all the blast media out of the engine parts before they get assembled back on to the engine.  I think I'm going to try out the parts washer at work and see how that goes, then hopefully just blow everything off with Brakleen, and then paint it all.

Moving along....