84 4wd Touring wagon

[sub1980s]

Paint matched to sample,of old colour cheers.

[sub1980s]

painted this week,was going to get someone with a spray booth to do it,as

less crap ending it, and it makes a mess.Plus if it goes wrong apply

2 pack clearcoat,as more work to fix and tidy up.I would rather only

spray a couple of panels at most.Some of the soft edge masking has a hard paint edge now,yes some bits are disappointing ,won't to any way.thanks for looking

Rowen.

[sub1980s]

was painted at home, not ideal, fumes, mess, neighbours

[sub1980s]

Did buy a Iwata AZ3 HTE 2 for topcoat as the cheap gravity feed gun I had bought using it as a primer gun only on this car.as owned a suction spraying

gun for 20 years,they still do a good job.

Spraying the 2 coat of clear found it difficult as seeing what I was

doing with overspay mist in the garage, and the shiny surface from the

from first coat, made hard to see an judged.And no iam not a spraypainter.

[sub1980s]

Have 6 places the size of a pea paint runs to fix up.

[WAGZ]

Looking good bud, my touring wagon gets painted next month.

[KiwiGL]

Looks mint, loving your restoration work

[Crazyeights]

Very nice work I have always wanted to do this to my 83 Wagon.

[sub1980s]

Finished painting bumpers in lacquer black textured bumper paint.The rest

painted in 2K matt black the tailgate handle fascia, door handles ,door mirrors,

window wipers,petrol flap,brake booster,headlight bases,wheel nuts,

done before winter sets in.

The bumpers needed repairs,a few scrapes here and there that needed filling.

Used flexible bumper body filler. the area I wanted to fill any dags

or ridges nock them off with sandpaper.I run the sandpaper in the gouges

so the filler has a good key to stick to.I think usd 120 grit.Final sanding

used 240 grit maybe a bit of 280 grit, sprayed a light dusting of plastic

adhesion primer twice, ten minutes between coats.Then primed the whole bumper

with grey lacquer primer 3 or 4 coats.

Enough of the boring talk its assembly,luckly I did take plenty of pictures

of car to help reassembly.As you do forget things ,where does go ???

looks simple enough at the time.

[sub1980s]

poor pictures.

[sub1980s]

Tidy up grille and headlight surrounds, cracked grille only super glued

with plastic patch on the side to give more contact area for strength.On

the top there was little broken piece broken, super glued it in,

see photo red arrow.Finish off with body filler,and sand it back.

[sub1980s]

filled a few gouges then,brushed some 2k primer on repair area.

[sub1980s]

Sanded back with 400 wet on repair area.Then went round with scotch pad

to ruff it a little any other bits that funny used some sander to it

nocked back.Mist coated some plastic adhesion primer,20 mins later grey

lacquer primer sprayed on.The next day used grey scotch pad gave it a

bit of rub.Then used degreaser on rag and wipe it all over, with another

clean rag wipe it dry.Sprayed the three items gunmetal lacquer paint.

job done.

[sub1980s]

Needs a few things finishing,drivers seat,badges,windsreen moulding

needs painting black and moulding on the roof drip rail.

[sub1980s]

Months ago went over outside of car to tidy up paint finish.The top surfaces

bonnet, roof had lots of dust,or crap in.The bonnet was orange peelin in

finish,not very smooth,but anyway it didn't matter as paint nibs as well,to

fix wet sanded it with 1500 or 2000 grit,over the whole bonnet.Ended up doing

nearly most of the roof as well.Once that's flated off,i would check by wiping

with a good clean towel. Seeing where iam up to,is the paint shine gone,

is any bits that need abit more sandind,move to next area,Iam only sanding it

enough.

as not to many coats there,if you sand through the clearcoat into the metallic

color you will notice it.And a respray will be needed be, or touch it the

the offending area.

 

Hosed of bonnet and dry with towel.Next used rotary buffer with cutting pad

attachment.Using cutting compound to buff up whole bonnet.For next was

the front guard any paint nibs sand with 2000 grit using very small sanding

block,may be 10 or 15 paint nibs,as the paint nib very small,you can feel

them with the tip you finger.Nibs sorted no more sanding as paint nibs removed

as wanted to keep sanding area as small possible.Then used buffer as above,

buffed paint in small areas id sanded,to bring back paintshine,It looks like

fine ,you would know that I touched.Next was drivers door then the next door etc ,etc.Took me a week to go round the car.A Spray booth you get less crap in,

dusty garage with junk all round never mind,not ideal,saving money?

[subnz]

Nice work / progress  - have always liked the look of these last 2nd Gen Leone GL touring wagons especially with the factory alloys fitted.

 

And original black NZ new registration plates - nice.

 

My 1st Subaru was an 83 wagon sort of similar but flat roof and with single uglier headlight enclosures (a lower spec one 2nd hand ex japan JDM  a mix of  DL / GL features.

Edited August 27, 2016 by subnz

[sub1980s]

Thanks thought show some pics,alloys looks alright,like look the brumby brat

steel rims?on the wagons.

[sub1980s]

1600 in car,to be taken out.

[sub1980s]

pushed outside to clean garage.

[sub1980s]

Needs drivers door moulding.

[sub1980s]

Bought front windreen rubber from OZ Auto Moulds & Rubbers, for sub brumby

rubber

approx. $120.00 NZ dollars. Reused old mouldings ,some of the black alloy foil?

peel off,will paint mouldings paint black later.

[sub1980s]

Cleaning engine EA81.Have another crank shaft and conrods.Did get someone to

look at pistons and rings,said I needed news ones,as rings to loose on pistons I think,

and being a flat four would be a oil burner,so rebore 20 thou piston and rings.

.New main bearings and conrod bearings.So will take to someone else not sure

who to use for engine reconditioning.Plus they want me to buy pistons & rings

bearings etc.Hard to source pistons in NZ for some cars I think as less

engine reconditioning being done.One place in Auckland would get them for

$400.00 NZ for 4 pistons and rings from Aussie.Not sure where this is heading

but will get something sorted soon.

[sub1980s]

The tired pistons and rings done 240.000 kilometres.

[sub1980s]

Cylinder head Frost plugs rusty not far off from leaking water in the engine

oil.

The nail in the picture sitting in the hole.Other side cylinder

head frost plug, brown more rusty, pushed through like card board.

Removed the six plugs new ones soon.

[sub1980s]

The wash down of car and engine removal nearly 2 years ago.before

complete strip down,i nearly gave up on it?