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Scraping
When the underside of the car was soda blasted, the wheels were still attached, so the wheel arches could not be stripped of the old underseal. So this needed to be done the old fashioned way. A scraper and elbow grease.
Finishing
After a number of hours it looked like this. I then set about the final reside withwire wool and white spirit. Finally I could see the steel and the panels which had obviously beed replaced at some point. The panel gaps between the inner and our wing sections were not good, but there was thankfully very little rust. After treating the surfaces with Rust Buster Fe-123), I filled the gaps with seam sealer and gave the whole wheel arch a good coat of epoxy paint (Rust Buster epoxy mastic 121). I will give it another coat, but it looks much better even now and I have the peice of mind of knowing that the metal is sound and protected.
