Sara bought me these seasonal tire totes and felt protectors.
The felts go on the wheel side of the tire to protect it from scratches and I used the shipping cardboard that came with the snow tires to make a cover for the backs of the wheels.
Once the tires are in the totes, they are very easy to carry with the built-in handles.
My dad came over to help just as I was covering the last tire. We hauled the tires upstairs to the storage closet, and then removed KITT's fenders.
Next we removed all four wheels from KITT.
We swept out underneath KITT so the creepers would roll smoothly and we could get underneath to mark all the spots that need to be touched up with POR-15.
This is the driver side rear wheel well.
This is the passenger side rear wheel well.
Mario must have used some kind of a floor jack under the cross member to move KITT around. It ended up eating through some of the POR-15. I need to repaint these areas with POR-15.
These are chips on the A-arm. I think Troy and I did this damage when we were trying to put the springs in. I will reapply POR-15 to these areas.
This is another area that is missing coverage, again along a seam.
This is the drain plug for the differential. Troy had to use a torch to get the old plug out, and after the prolonged exposure to the heat it removed the POR-15. This needs to be repainted.
Another seam/pinch weld we missed. My dad and I tagged all these areas with blue tape so I can find them again to repaint.
The next two pictures are of the mount points for the Panhard/track bar. Just a few areas that did not quite get the coverage they need.
Another seam spot we missed.
Sara brought home dinner for us, and then we all went back out to the garage to start cleaning the wheel wells and wheel well inserts. Sara cleaned the passenger side wheel wells with POR-15 Cleaner Degreaser.
My dad cleaned the driver side rear wheel well and the wheel well inserts.
I cleaned the driver side front wheel well, and then started taping.
We masked off all the areas we did not want undercoating sprayed on.
It looked like matte black paint, and nothing like the textured covering indicated on the can.
Thinking that we might have gotten a dud can, we switched to the second can. We shook this one for about five minutes and then I started spraying the entire wheel well. It still did not have the texture we were expecting.
Dad held the light wand to make sure I had sufficient light to see that I was covering everything.
The overall look was nothing like what we wanted so we decided to test it on a small spot on the gray primer in the rear wheel well.
In the meantime, we decided to continue taping and masking off the wheel wells.
Here is the driver side rear wheel well.
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