Renovating Metal engine parts

Ok folks i have a few rareish metal parts off the 1500CC engine, there rusty as hell, for instance the timing belt cover, however some are actually ok.

Now usually i take a wire brush to the bad parts,bit of emery paper and slap some smooth hammerite on, but wat id like to know is what is the better more reliable way of doing this? to stop rust coming back for example?

Also this project im doin with the gf's little bro,so its on a tight budget.

any ideas or advice?

TIA

Check out Bilt-Hamber deox-C, http://www.bilthamber.com/deoxc.html, it chemically converts the rust to a dissolvable salt and also gives a phosphorous coating to the metal, this is temporary and easily removed. It will still need wire brushing and probably rinse and repeating, but its wroth a go.

For painting, I think powder-coating is the way to go, it provides a tougher chip-resistant finish.

I got a few bits shotblasted and powercoated and was relatively cheap. Look in yellow pages for your nearest.

Got my rear axel and a few other bits done for ?30. Brilliant job - and apparently very hard wearing

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After……..

ok but if funds still dont allow for powdercoating,nice thin coats of smooth hamerite then?

Anything else out there?

Rustbullet or Por-15 is supposed to be good.

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after



coated hubs with bilt hamber de-ox ,covered with plastic bag and left for 3 days then just washed it off

not exactly hard work  

Wow!.. good job on the rear axel, looks like new again.  
The hubs come out good too, are you going to power coat them aswel or painting them.

Regards
vw_tees

for small items i think the bilt hamber gel is excellent

for larger items like the rear beam shot blast is definately the way the go

mine is getting blast cleaned next week and powder coated

with the rear hubs prob just high temp spray in black


micko your rear beam looks spot on