Before I can paint the top of the frame there is a couple of things I gotta do. The e-brake cable run partially inside the frame and partially outside. So I am creating a couple of brackets to hold the nylon cable guides to route the cables to the lever assembly.
After I finished priming the bottom of the frame, I painted it with heavy duty chassis paint. I will give this a few days to cure and then flip it back over upright. I can then focus on finishing the frame paint.
First….that black stuff on my fingers is POR 15 seam sealer (bad idea) it took 2 weeks to wear off. Anyway I am preaty much
finished with the primer coat on the bottom of the frame. The primer is the Eastwood rust encapsulator and it went on very
smoothly. After I paint it with the gloss black chassis paint I will flip it back over to finish the other side.
The VW bug’s frame is ready to be painted on the bottom. I will apply the primer and make sure that I get it into all the cracks and crevices, then I will put on any filler and repaint those parts.
More paint prep. Cleaning, scrubbing, filing and sanding I will soon paint this thing. This step has been along time coming.
Before painting the bottom of the frame I have a bit more welding and grinding to do. This boring video is basically a frame bottom wrap-up. Getting ready for paint.
I now have the e-brake cable sheaths mounted to the VW bug’s bottom plate. The next step is to locate and drill out the holes that will allow the e-brake cables to pass through the bottom plate. I will work on the nylon guides once I turn the frame upright again.
Now that I have my mounting locations for the e-brake cable ends, I have welded on the nuts that will hold everything in place. I am constructing two plates that will hold the cable ends in place using the factory indentions to insure that they stay solid.
Now that I have the e-brake mount locations, I am going to weld nuts to the bottom of the frame to hold the e-brake cable mounts. I will also be constructing small ramps to protect the mounts. Small steps to get the final product.
The emergency/e-brake cables will exit through the bottom plate of the VW bug. I am planning on haveing the cables exit below the fuel tank. So after a bunch of measurments I can start to get the mount lcations.