Wax injection of cavities

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Sat 2 Oct 2004 19:14
Wax injection of cavities - hugh
Due to the weather the Peugeot 205 cabriolet has just been taken off the road for the winter - I feel I ought to try and rustproof it with waxoyl or similar. Does anyone know where I can buy blanking caps, and is there a source of information for where to drill holes to get the wax into the right cavities? I saw a website with data sheets some time ago but can't find it again.
Many Thanks
Hugh
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Sat 2 Oct 2004 22:00
Wax injection of cavities - Schnitzel
Try..
www.vehicle-wiring-products.co.uk/
I normally get such sundries from there by mail order.
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Sat 2 Oct 2004 23:25
Wax injection of cavities - Big John
If the car is more than a couple of years old there is a danger of some internal rust already being present. If you inject waxoyl (or equivalent) it will sit on top of the rust layers with little effect. When restoring cars in the past I have cut through many a underseal, multilayer crispy rust and waxoyl sandwich. My tried and tested method is to inject an oil and warm waxoyl mixture, (have you ever seen a rusty oily engine bay!) the oil soaks into the rust and the waxoyl put preserves.
I used to use a modified waxoyl pump, discard the useless spray attachment attach long plastic pipe (fuel pipe?) plug the end of the pipe with a bolt and drill 4 holes into the end of the pipe, puncture the top of the pick up pipe. This carries the mixture down the pipe and splatters it around using the added air bubbles.

Any underside external rust should be painted with an engine oil/waxoyl mixture followed by something like waxoyl underseal, and yes it does cover on top of oil!

Squirting light oil into seams through drain holes etc helps(ie door bottoms/boot lids etc..)

A Moggy Minor I did in 1988 for someone still remains rust free, most cars that were new then are now in the scrap yard.

PS DO NOT USE OLD ENGINE OIL.

PPS IT makes an unbelievable mess.



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