Yesterday I took a box of suspension parts to a local shop and rented their bead blaster for 25 minutes and removed nearly all of the remaining surface rust from the front suspension parts. Very satisfying work and for $25 and change it was money well spent. Shiny metal showed through. It was difficult to totally clean up the front springs...there were trace amounts of light rust left which I treated chemically before painting. I had to continue to remind myself this is not a 100 point restoration and perfection does not need to be the end result. A "fit for purpose" approach will get my car back on the road in a reasonable amount of time. The pursuit of perfection takes much longer and costs $$$ more. The springs look fine and with a couple of coats of Eastwood Chassis Black they will look as good as new!!!
I cleaned off the remaining abrasive material with compressed air and primed all the bare metal. It is still cold and raining here and I didn't want to leave the metal exposed so I fired the furnace in the garage and kept the temperature above 60 degrees.
I am not going to paint the rest of the parts until the weather clears up and I can apply the paint outside.
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