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Originally Posted by psraff
How are you guys cleaning the inside of the frame before your first coat of any product? I've pressure washed as much as I could from any of holes, but it would be nice to run some kind of snake through it. Or at least an air line with a special tip applied to blow out it's sides (angling forward).
(thinking out loud here....)
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I used a coat hanger cut and with a hook on the end to shove in there and loosen up everything I could. Blow out with longer air nozzle with bent tip. Blow towards back to get it out. The powerwash through every hole. Enlarge every hole so you can put your finger in to feel around. I drilled one more hole on one side of the bottom of frame near LCA bracket. The other side already had a hole.
Then I got a hand spray bottle and sprayed methanol all in the holes so it dripped out profusely. Then acetone. Then blast out with air again.
Then I sprayed Ospho (nasty stuff) in all the holes. Let it sit overnight. Wash out next day and let dry for a week.
Then sprayed Eastwood coating in all holes using a cut piece of plumber's snake as a guide for the curly tube that comes with it. After this you can put your phone up to a hole with a flashlight and get some good pictures of what is going on in there rust wise.
I wasn't happy with the rust flakes that remained on the welds (for some reason the welds rust first). So I then sandblasted where I could. Then had to use the garden hose and blower to get all that sand out. Let it dry and applied more coating where I blasted. Still need to finish that off, it was incomplete coverage. With the green paint you can easily see where you painted and missed.
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