Monthly Archives: December 2021

20. Group Photo of All Coating Products — Media Blasting Underside The most economical media for blasting is coal slag. It’s effective and leaves the metal well textured so paint should adhere well. Figure 1 shows the car rolled outside for blasting. Figure 2 shows the work in progress, and Figure 3 shows the completed blasting of the […]

Media Blasting Underside and Applying Coatings

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2021 by saabyurk

10. Testing Fit of Jack Mounts — Splash Guards This is a short post showing the last few bits of underside work before media blasting and application of coatings. Figure 1 shows a donor splash guard for the driver’s side. The original was a bit too crumbled to be reworked. Having surplus 304 stainless sheet, I decided […]

Finishing Underside Body Work

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2021 by saabyurk

18. 304 Stainless Battery Tray Installed — Driver’s Side Reinforcement Plate Factory Saabs had a pair of 16 ga reinforcement plates/straps welded from the engine bay floor to the cabin floor, one on each side. One of mine was removed to repair a rusted section of floor. Figures 1-2 show the installation of the driver’s side replacement. […]

Miscellaneous Body Work and Stainless Steel Battery Tray

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2021 by saabyurk

23. Firewall/Cowl Rust Repair Finished — In the portion of the cowl near the bottom corners of the windshield at the A-pillars, it appears that Saab stuffed some open cell foam under the cowl, perhaps as an air stop. It was, however, very effective at holding water and rusting out the cowl from the inside. Figure […]

Cowl Repairs Below the Corners of the Windshield

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2021 by saabyurk

12. Door Seal Stop Plug Welds — First off, it’s been a while but I did some work in the fall of 2020 and this summer. This is the first in a series of five posts describing the progress. Now, regarding this post, I don’t know what the subject parts are called because they are not separately […]

Replacing Door Seal Stops

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2021 by saabyurk