Prepping the New Frame

First thing to do was dig out the donor frame. Boy these are heavy and cumbersome.

This doesn't have any evidence of being in an accident and aside from surface rust there is no severe rust inside or out. I checked with a borescope.

Here is the donor frame from another 1966 galaxie 500 and the heavy duty Ford 9 inch axle from the 1966 galaxie 500 XL. They are ready to be wet sand blasted.

This is what I use to wet sand blast. The pressurized hopper is a Harbor Freight deal, the pressure washer is a 3100 PSI gasoline chain store buy and the wet blasting wand was from Northern Tools. You can only use fine blasting media as the course will clog up the nozzle.

After metal prep application.

During the painting process. Since this is not a show room build, I wasn't going to spray the frame on the exterior, it's just brush painted POR 15 semi-gloss. My primary concern is corrosion control since these love to rust out from the inside.

The interior was sprayed with Eastwood's internal frame coat. Took about 6 cans and then after that cured it was internally coated with POR 15 with a spray gun with a long wand attachment. I hosed it in liberally till it ran out. It's well coated on the inside.

For those wondering about the costs as you need to budget for something like this. The Eastwood internal frame coat was ~150 and POR 15 ~100. So 250 for the paint. The blasting sand was another 100 dollars. So just for supplies 450 dollars to prep the bare frame.

The next post will be the suspension parts.

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