Waxoyl

Silka flex is the stuff for sticking the plates n back on -they won't cause any more trouble after that!
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mike

I'm getting ready to drill holes in the sills step region but just as I expected there is another skin inside the sills. I assume it is the same as on the Vitara sill and a cross section would look more like a Ш or Ф than a Ц.

I need to get the Waxoyl on both sides of that skin or the untreated side will continue to rust. I've seen this a few times when years later the sill covers have been taken off Vitaras and the sill has rotted away. You find there is a lot of untreated metal.





Looking down the hole for the step cover clip I can see the centre skin is just inboard. So I am assuming I need to drill at where the red marks are - is that correct?

I think that there are access holes to the inner box under the carpet. I'll have a look tomorrow.

There is a nasty cavity under the front of the rear seat, the vertical wall is double skinned.

When you get the waxoyl out, remove the seatbelts first!

Both front & back reels live inside the cavities, and will get waxoyl splashes on them, that shows when you pull the belt out. (Guess how I know)

I can't remember how I got it off, likely fairy liquid and warm water.

Oh, I used dinitrol, having had the usual lack of success with waxoyl over the years*, and it is just as useless

*Have you noticed that the bottom of your waxoyl tin rusts through and leaks, but the other tins on the shelf next to it don't?

facade wrote: I think that there are access holes to the inner box under the carpet. I'll have a look tomorrow.

There is a nasty cavity under the front of the rear seat, the vertical wall is double skinned.

When you get the waxoyl out, remove the seatbelts first!

Both front & back reels live inside the cavities, and will get waxoyl splashes on them, that shows when you pull the belt out. (Guess how I know)

I can't remember how I got it off, likely fairy liquid and warm water.

Oh, I used dinitrol, having had the usual lack of success with waxoyl over the years*, and it is just as useless

*Have you noticed that the bottom of your waxoyl tin rusts through and leaks, but the other tins on the shelf next to it don't?

Hehe yes thanks, I used to use Dinitrol and I don't know why I changed but I have the gun that screws on to the Waxoyl tins which I just refill. I think I switched because Dinitrol got hard to find.

Holes in the side of the sills would be a blessing.

My seat belts are linked to the explosive system - I don't know if I want to mess with them. TBH the REAL concern I have is with sills and door bottoms. You may have noticed I tend to have 20 year old motors (classic car insurance innit :laugh: Also, cheap on tax. ) and the sills are really all that bug me.

I have a few tins of Waxoyl that have been on the shelf in my garage since I did my Pajero back on '04 and no signs of rusting yet! Must be lucky. :laugh:

Front of the rear seat - thanks for the heads up. There is the same in the jack space at the back - double skin - and of course mine has suffered but I don't care about that. I don't know why we don't hack it out, make good the edges and just leave a gaping hole covered by that MDF or even put a plate across?? Why the jack was put there I'll never know. Under the hood was the best place ever because I junked it and made use of the space. :laugh: I carried a bottle jack in me tool bag instead. Anyhooo, I wasn't really intending to go inside the cab, just doors, sills, ladder chassis and tubular cross members; in fact anywhere that I can stuff the lance easily. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I am putting the job off until the MoT which I'll get done early next month early. I have only had it for a short while and it is a smoker and apparently started to smoke with the last owner who hasn't seen the mota for a year. If it fails on emissions or any other substantial work I'll reconsider my situation but I am not paying out cash on tins of Waxoyl just yet. It would be a shame to scrap it because physically it is in fantastic condition particularly underneath; you can put mechanicals right mostly but rot spells the end and this has none to speak of. I am looking to see this reach its 25th birthday.

There are access holes under the edge of the carpet with large plastic bungs in them.

facade wrote: There are access holes under the edge of the carpet with large plastic bungs in them.

Nice one.

Just been and looked - they look nice and big too so that should give access to the inner side of the sill cavity.

If I open out the middle one of the step cover clip holes I should get access to the outer side of the cavity and reach all the way to the front and to the back. I think I will defo have to do that.