Need A Bit Of Advice

[Joe1968]

What the best way to treat / deal with this spot of rust .. ?

[Joe1968]

Might be able to see better on this

[KevJTD]

very difficult to erradicate it for good without surgery.
at best it needs taking back to bare metal with a shot blast gun but the corrosion will most likely have spread from around the edges, either from the bumper side or the rear 1/4 join. so any treatment to the face would be short lived without treating the source of the issue.

maybe JB will come along with a more possitive solution

[Joe1968]

To be fair, its been like it for a year or 2, .. but I haven't paid attention to it given I wasn't expecting to still have the car. The plan was to have the Graemes company car when it came out of lease ( this month ). However I have had to take a year off work, so it wont be happening now. So its time to tidy up the old boy and invest a few quid ( again ). Apart from the rust issue he is going in for Clutch and DMF next week, new injectors the week after and a Cam Belt and W/P the first week in December. Seem to be at that point when I'm spending a ton of cash again. In the last few months its had 2 rear Shockers, top arms , bottom arms and drop links . I reckon ive spent over 10k on this car in the last 4 years!

[alfachris]

On the clutch autolusso do a solid flywheel kit which is a twin spark flywheel thats been skim and re drilled to use a gta clutch

[PETROLHEAD]

On the rust spot, i'd spot blast back as kev suggests, see how far it really goes, remove what you can see, Jenolite or POR15 treat the exposed area, and then a little skim of filler and smart repair.

as for the clutch, i'd use C and G Motorsport. I used one of their stage 2 clutches for my tuned 2.4 jtd a few years ago, it was brilliant performance and value compared to the stock Valeo stuff at twice the price from Alfa.

http://www.clutch-specialists.co.uk/


Catch a tired clutch early enough and you don't necessarily need a dmf aswell.


Good luck Joe