Keep a good eye under your cars!!! It starts me thinking again about Stainless Steel or Hot dipped galvanising. Chris P ----- Original Message ----- From: <jus4sho@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [DML]Front section Frame PICTURE > David, it looks like you ran into about the same thing I did on 02650. I had > to drill out the spot welds to remove the rotted section. I'm going to clean > the inside of the frame and recoat it before I weld in a new piece of sheet > metal. FYI, the bad corrosion in that area is the result of a combination of > things: 1) As you mentioned, there's no drain hole and 2) The epoxy barely > made it into this section, leaving about half the metal inside this area > completely bare. (Once I removed the lower plate, I could see how the epoxy > must have came in the little hole at the top, and barely made it halfway down > the sides before tapering to a paper-thin edge.) > > You can see the shots of the frame cut open on my site: > http://www.angelfire.com/md2/projectdelorean/fr0101.html > > Steve > VIN 2650 ("Project Delorean") > > > Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: > www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderator@xxxx >