WillRace4Food

I've seen some pics of some guys who did a great job cleaning/painting the undercarage/rear end. Can you guys give me some advice. Did you take it apart to do it or with everything on the car? Do I just need to get under there with some degreeser, high grit sandpaper and paint?

This is what I'm starting with minus the exhaust. With no spare/exhaust its gonna out in the wide open so I want it to look better. Any help is greatly apreciated.
http://www.ipsb.net/herringt/76corvette/76lift.jpg

Tim

stingraymaniac

looks like its kinda clean so just do as i did:
i just brushed and painted the areas that were a little rusty with some rost protection and then some undercarrage paint.
i didnt take so much things loose but it went great!
i painted the spring silver and the calipers red
i dont have the spare either so every things shows from behind
now it looks really nice
:smash:

sb69coupe

It will end up looking much better if you take everything apart. It's hard to paint individual parts witch everything installed. However, if you do not have a good reason to tear it down, you should just leave everything in place and do the best you can. A simple tear down of the rear would get you access to most everything.

Remove the rear spring, disconnect the half shafts at the hub and at the differential and remove the half shafts. Remove the strut rods and strut rod bracket if possible. Leave the differential and trailing arms in place. You can clean up the spring, strut rods, half shafts, etc with them off the car, then the rest is much more accessible with that stuff out of the way. You should probably consider replacing u-joints and bushings "while you're in there" and check the side yokes, rear bearings, trailing arm bushings, etc for wear. More than likely, you'll find some more items that need to be replaced. Welcome to the fun world of small projects spiraling out of control.

Hence my recommendation of leaving well enough alone unless you really want to start digging in :D

Shannon

WillRace4Food

most of that stuff is new so I may be ok there..lol. I need to change the rear end fluid anyway so I may just take the easy stuff off to make cleaning it up/painting easier. Only Thing not new is trailing arm bushing and i'm thinking about getting offset trailing arms anyway.

PRNDL

Nice lift! :) The cleaning part is easy, but when you start painting you will wish it was apart... MJ