William Fissell
Member
Hi, all,
There was a nice post a few years back from a man who painted his 35 w rustoleum. I planned to do the same.
repeainting a MF35 on the cheap-ish after rebuild. Rebuilt the Z134 engine, had it hot tanked and magnafluxed at an engine shop, reassembled it, scrubbed it w Dawn dish soap then rinsed dried wiped down with naphtha finally painted w phos-x. Sprsyed rustoleum rusty metal primer on the block using compresseed air spray gun. Project got left aside inside for a year in conditioned space. Primer is peeling off block, worse on manifold side. Engine has not been started or heated up. Has not been out in the weather.
Any suggestions? Im assuming residual oil in the block interfered with adhesion and I have to scrape anything loose and rewash w naphtha, but I thought I would ask the experts. The peeling starts as a star-shaped crack in the paint and the the peaint curls back from there.
thank you in advance.
Bill
There was a nice post a few years back from a man who painted his 35 w rustoleum. I planned to do the same.
repeainting a MF35 on the cheap-ish after rebuild. Rebuilt the Z134 engine, had it hot tanked and magnafluxed at an engine shop, reassembled it, scrubbed it w Dawn dish soap then rinsed dried wiped down with naphtha finally painted w phos-x. Sprsyed rustoleum rusty metal primer on the block using compresseed air spray gun. Project got left aside inside for a year in conditioned space. Primer is peeling off block, worse on manifold side. Engine has not been started or heated up. Has not been out in the weather.
Any suggestions? Im assuming residual oil in the block interfered with adhesion and I have to scrape anything loose and rewash w naphtha, but I thought I would ask the experts. The peeling starts as a star-shaped crack in the paint and the the peaint curls back from there.
thank you in advance.
Bill