painting timingbelt cover

[Peter Berrevoets]

I used a double part process on this and it has been holding up well.

First I cleaned and scraped all the grunge off the cover using a wire brush,
sandpaper and disc brake cleaner (spray).

Then I used Tremclad high heat rust paint in gloss black. Baked it on in the
oven at 160 deg F. Then used a Canadian Tire product known as Rubberized
Rocker Guard Paint for two coats. Builds up a thick flexible surface that is
highly resistant to stone chips and bug teeth. It's not high heat but it's
been three months and looking fine after 6000K at some pretty high
velocities. Ontario's cottage country is well known for it's bugs and gravel
and it hasn't touched this stuff.

HTH

Peter
1990 200TQ

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of JordanVw at aol.com
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:23 AM
To: bg20300 at binghamton.edu; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: painting timingbelt cover


In a message dated 9/8/00 9:15:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bg20300 at binghamton.edu writes:

<< Hey all.. my timingbelt cover is real nasty (all the black paint is gone
 :).. Anyways, i have now tried twice to paint it and both times it looked
 really nice but within a week had pitted and within a month was back to
 looking nasty...

 I am using the black paint that i got from autozone which is supposed to
 be heat resistant.

 Also, on the second try I tried getting rid of the old paint (over cleaner
 pulled it right off!) .. but still no better...
  >>

you can't paint over grease/oil...... clean it first with solvent/wire
brush.
   use VHT engine block paint..i use that stuff to paint exhaust systems, it
stays on..
chris
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