

| Subject: | Re: ENTIRE interior is out... any odd jobs I should be doing? |
| From: | Christopher Gronski |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:20:53 -0400 |
George out of curiosity what was the new color for the volvo? Dark or light? On 8/10/05, George Goff <THX0001@aol.com> wrote: > In a message dated 8/9/05 10:04:02 PM, mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM writes: > > << spray the entire inside with Krown's anti-rust oil. >> > > This is overkill and it may have at least one shortcoming. I once restored a > Volvo and did a color change on it. Since all of the interior trim was out > anyway for the color change, I had a buddy completely cover the insides of all > the body panels with the wax based compound he used in his rustproofing shop. > The stuff was similar to Waxoyl. All was right in my world until the weather > got warm; then the rustproofing became a thermal mass which turned that car > into an oven. Have you ever been in the attic of a house with an asphalt > shingle roof on a sunny day? Similar effect. > > Since I have yet to see an undamaged body panel start rusting at its center, > all that is really needed is to coat the bottom of the panels on the inside > and, perhaps, spray a band of the rustproofing on the panel seams. > > George >
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