300SD Rust Restoration Project - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

JamesDean · #1 11-15-2010, 11:09 AM

Hello everyone,

Some of you might remember, I have a rusty 300SD that I'm working on, I just bought a welder (Eastwood Mig 135) and a tank for it. I'm no expert welder so I've handed most of the welding off to my uncle. He better than I am.

We started up in the front of the car:

Originally there were two areas, both sides of the car, around the sway bar areas. However, I removed the battery tray and found more rust. I started hitting things with the back end of a screwdriver and found more weak spaces so I tore out some metal. I ended up removing the fender lining under the car and exposed a nice area just adjacent to the hood spring. Let this be a warning to you! Check the area around the tray too! Fix them washer bottle leaks!

New sheet metal was welded in place. The remaining surface rust will be treated with Eastwood's rust encapsulator system. Which comprises of the following

1) Eastwood PRE (cleaning up residues, etc)
2) Eastwood Rust Converter (converts surface rust to hard intert material)
3) Eastwood Rust Encapsulator (covers the new metal to protect against rust
4) Eastwood Extreme Chassis Black (to provide protection for the encapsulator, only comes in black, so it wont really match the factory undercoating which I'm alright with on this car. This isnt a show car or anything)

Internal areas which are closed off will be sprayed with Eastwood's Internal Frame Coating aerosol, pretty cool imo, comes with a nice want thing and actually looks like the factory stuff

Eastwood stuff came to around $140 or so...

Here some pictures of the work so far:

http://imgur.com/a/qX66R/1

I'll update this thread as I go along.
Thoughts/comments/questions are all welcome.