How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

So much welding....hed. My plan is to drill a hole in a spot that will be covered once welded to the box. Once I'm ready I'll use a small funnel and pour POR into the channel. Then I'll rotate it all around to cover and soak the inside. I did that with the doors and it worked rather well. This also means I won't be burning any off from welding.

Next up will be finishing the side channels and then welding them on. The bottoms of them are open so I'll be able to spray POR inside them once done.

Hi Jordan

Which POR poduct are you planning on using? POR15 does not stick well to fresh steel, it just peals off. Also bare steel has coating that needs to be clean off before the steel is etched to get a good adhesion of the paint. If what you are planning to use is self etching then it should work well.

On box tube truck beds I've welded up over the years I followed a similar plan of drilling holes into any closed compartments and filling them with oil and then draining the oil out. Seamed to have worked, the body on my old plow truck is 30 years old. On the platform bed for my C60S did a similar thing but put plugs in holes, couple of years later went to renew the oil coating when unscrewed the first plug water ran out. One of my welds must have had a leak on the top side. Any way removed all the plugs blew out the closed sections, then filled the closed tube with oil again. Drained again an left the plugs out, since then every couple years use a compressed air syphon gun to blow oil through.

Great thread enjoyable to read.

Cheers Phil