Spot on mate! It's worth doing, and a full treatment of Dinitrol can never hurt! Prevention beats cure and chasing rust. So if you've got a nice 300, FFS treat it first and prevent the rust!
I see the usual rust trap on the 360 near the fuel tank in the chassis rails. I must look out the pic that I took that demonstrates perfectly why this happens. I cut the floor of a scrapper out and peeled it all back to reveal inside the chassis rail. I'm undecided as yet whether drilling a drainage hole and then painting the edges to prevent that rusting is the way forward, or which bits to try and fill up with Dinitrol in the chassis rails and where from in order to prevent or slow down the problem, as one bit was a sealed in section from memory.
Looks like they've done a decent job. It's hard to find a place that takes any interest in restoring a car that hasn't reached classic status. They all seem to think they need bodging to get through another MOT, not repairing properly! My Uncle is a top welder and is learning his way around the 300's! He's done the chassis rail sections on one of my 360's, and just recently he's done the inner floor and sills, and replaced the outer sills and fabricated part of the rear arch sections on my Grandmothers 340. It's structurally spot on now, just needs a little bit of tidying up.
Good work mate, well worth the investment!
Pete
Pete
G reg 360 GLT, G reg 340 GL Variomatic, plus many more..........
Hoping to do the same for mine where necessary very soon.
I've had the chassis box sections waxoyled through out, the garage idiots have dented them by using them as jacking points! so only the arches and usual drainage areas will probably need this treatment.
Saw "Dinitrol" mentioned is that any better than "Waxoyl"?
Both are certainly better than nothing, however Dinitrol is thinner and more oil like, so it penetrates into gaps, seams and into the heart of rust spots to stop it, where as Waxoyl is thicker and tends to coat things not allowing moisture and air in.
Dinitrol isn't cheap, but I'd recommend it. I bought a huge can of Waxoyl, purely out of convenience. One of the places Dinitrol is available to the public is through Frosts online.
Pete
G reg 360 GLT, G reg 340 GL Variomatic, plus many more..........
Certainly explains the availability of Dinitrol being more costly than Waxoyl then.
Must admit while using waxoyl i did find it sits on the suface rather than penetrate at room temp. But slight application of heat seems to do the trick though, which would mean Dinitrol would have been the ideal consistency i was actually after in the first place.
I'll try Dinitrol next when i have the chance. Thanks for the link Pete.
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so only the arches and usual drainage areas will probably need this treatment.