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1979 VW Beetle - Parts ready to go to blasting

Murbella – Day 16 – Suspension off to soda blasting!

Posted on 2020-05-10

So all of the rear suspension parts are as ready as they will be for blasting.

After doing some research and talking to my son I decided to tape off most of the surfaces for where the outer wheel bearing and the inner grease seal sit on both arms.

1979 VW Beetle - IRS Trailing Corrosion
1979 VW Beetle – IRS Trailing Corrosion

From the pic above, you can see when I’ve decided to go through all of this sanding, blasting, and then recoating/restoration of the parts.

While that undercoating was gunked over quite a lot, there were whole areas where none was applied and surface corrosion has started to really take root under the original paint.

1979 VW Beetle - Pivot Scratches to repair
1979 VW Beetle – Pivot Scratches to repair

Now as to the inner part of the pivot joints, I discovered some problems that will need to be sanded down. I assume this happened when I had to punch the old OEM style bushing out.

This will all be sanded down and the bushings will be the polyurethane ones I bought online yesterday.

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