Restoring/Cleaning Wheel Wells

[workmeistr]

Due to the P.O.’s run-in with freshly-painted white paint, supposedly years ago, I redid the wheel wells with Napa #4501 Body Shield, rubber-based undercoating. The chassis grime is best removed by Simple Green and paper towels (no green pad or other harsh scrubber as to introduce scratches into the paint), followed by a “waxing” of Meguiar’s Cleaner Wax in the maroon jar. The cleaner wax removes the Simple Green residue and cleans the harsher areas where the Simple Green missed. It’s a great product and I learned of its cleaning ability while restoring Land Rovers. Once cleaned/waxed, the chassis is must easier to maintain, especially after mudding activity.

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/P1010024.JPG http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/P1010020.JPG

I’m not completely off my cleanliness rocker, here. I’ve always enjoyed routine maintenance more when I have a clean area to work with.

[Ldub]

WOW...that looks showroom clean...:thumbup:

[kodiak]

Nice! Looks good, I need to do that.:eek:

[OHVX'er]

Very impressive! That does look great

[tom4bren]

"I’ve always enjoyed routine maintenance more when I have a clean area to work with."

I can relate - I spent 30 minutes per side cleaning all that up on Friday before I started the CV boot replacement.

Your wheel wells look great - you can do mine when you're here in Jan:)

[nfpgasmask]

Bren,

That does look really nice, I have thought of doing something similar. I also need to figure out where all the dust is coming in from my rear wheel wells. Whenever I go offroad, I end up with loads of road dust inside me driver's side storage compartment (where the stock bottle jack goes). I think there must be some sort of hole or something that the tires kick loads of dust up into. I really need to pull of my interior panels and get to the bottom of all that.

Bart

[etlsport]

Bren,

That does look really nice, I have thought of doing something similar. I also need to figure out where all the dust is coming in from my rear wheel wells. Whenever I go offroad, I end up with loads of road dust inside me driver's side storage compartment (where the stock bottle jack goes). I think there must be some sort of hole or something that the tires kick loads of dust up into. I really need to pull of my interior panels and get to the bottom of all that.

Bart

bart, check out the vents that are under the cladding in this picture.. maybe something around those isnt sealing right.. or the cladding is loose or somethin

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/vx_rear1.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11730)

they are kind of hard to see.. dont have a straight on photo of them though.. there are i think 3 vents under the cladding there

[workmeistr]

My Range Rover has similar "over-pressure" vent(s), visible fron the outside at the base of the rear side pillars. Without some form of vents (and I've known someone whom this has happened to, even with vents), the pressure of shutting the rear hatch (on a newer Rangie), the rear window blew out; shattered.

Surely they have more to do with fresh air circulation as part of the HVAC. Of the two Rangie vents, only one is functional (right side), and it has a rubber flap, presumably to allow air to move from the interior cabin to the outside, but flapped seled for air/water to move from outside to in.