Well things are coming along well with the body repairs so far. Since we already had the rear windows out for the rust repairs, and were soon going to remove the front windscreen for a bit more rust work, we came to the decision that while they were out we might as well replace the headlining , oh and respray the roof as well! The roof was still in its original paint and was starting to show its age, and so was the roof lining.
Anyway after a couple of hours of carefully working the rubber with a screwdriver the front windscreen was out in one piece:
The roof lining was removed.
That cardboard kind of lining stuck to the roof was removed after a few hours work with a paint scraper to reveal...you guessed it.... more rust!
Gave it a hit with a wire brush for a bit of a tidy up. Thinking of using por15 to treat the inside of roof section after reading some positive posts about it.
The roof has been taken back to bare metal. I have never done this kind of work before so was keen to learn some tips of the trade off Ron.
We first applied a reasonably thick coat of paint stripper to sections of the roof. After 15 minutes or so we worked the paint off with a paint scraper. This first step basically removed the top coats of paint and left the brown coloured primer still pretty much intact on the roof.
Next we applied a thinner coat of paint stripper, only this time we worked the remaining paint off with some coarse steel wool , regularly rinsing the steel wool in water.
Next we applied some rust converter and let it sit on the roof for bout half an hour.
We then rinsed the whole roof down in water and dried the roof off.
The roof came up well. It took the two of us the best part of a day to get the roof up to this stage. Just two tiny dings in it to be repaired. Ron is going to sandblast the gutters today. If all goes well the roof should be in primer by the end of the day.
