I decided to go for por-15 again - despite not being overly impressed by their engine enamel. I was thinking that maybe the rust preventative paint would be better. So I bought a tin of rust preventative por15 and top coat - both in black.
I first left the parts in a bath of deox-c for a few days to remove the rust. I have since found out that por15 rust paint bonds better to rust so I should have left them as they were.
I then used the por15 marine clean followed by the metal prep. The pics below show the parts covered in the metal prep.
I then did 2 coats of rust preventative paint - leaving a couple of hours between each coat. This was followed by 2 coats for top coat. Before applying the top coat I roughed up the service with some fine sand paper.
Over all, the parts look pretty good and I'm quite pleased with the finish.
I also took a drive down to Redditch to pick up my diff from Russell Ram. Russ has done a fantastic job and the diff looks as good as new. Money well spent.
I decided to have a go at zinc plating the fulcrum bolts. These also turned out pretty well. I used a home plating kit from Gateros Plating. The kit uses a battery charger to power it. The set up looks a bit basic but the results are okay. This will give a bit extra corrosion protection.
