Hi all,
Happy to report, after three and half years of patiently waiting in the garage, the 404 is about to go back on the road. My son is just a few weeks away from his P's now, so the time has come to do a quick touch-up of the paintwork and get him going.
Mechanically I am pretty happy with the state of the car. We got it running nicely for the Bay to Birdwood back in 2015, and I've chased down a few brake bits following a white knuckled experience at the end of that rally.
So the plan is to do a basic refresh of the paintwork, deal with the few minor rusty bits, like the boot channels leaking water into the boot.
Progress is good, with my son putting in 7 hour days in hand sanding. I'm doing the minor bog work on the various classic little supermarket car-park dents. All in all, no nasty surprises so far.
But I did hit one job I'd forgotten about. The inner door gaskets on the car are all reasonably good, but the doors appear to have remains of some melted, but no rock hard gooey gasket "stuff" on them. It looks like it might have been some kind of "outer" door gasket?
My questions are:
1. Is it worth chasing down replacements for these gaskets?
2. What was their function? (might be answered by question 1 I guess)
3. Any tricks for removing the horrid melted mess from the doors?
Matt
Happy to report, after three and half years of patiently waiting in the garage, the 404 is about to go back on the road. My son is just a few weeks away from his P's now, so the time has come to do a quick touch-up of the paintwork and get him going.
Mechanically I am pretty happy with the state of the car. We got it running nicely for the Bay to Birdwood back in 2015, and I've chased down a few brake bits following a white knuckled experience at the end of that rally.
So the plan is to do a basic refresh of the paintwork, deal with the few minor rusty bits, like the boot channels leaking water into the boot.
Progress is good, with my son putting in 7 hour days in hand sanding. I'm doing the minor bog work on the various classic little supermarket car-park dents. All in all, no nasty surprises so far.
But I did hit one job I'd forgotten about. The inner door gaskets on the car are all reasonably good, but the doors appear to have remains of some melted, but no rock hard gooey gasket "stuff" on them. It looks like it might have been some kind of "outer" door gasket?
My questions are:
1. Is it worth chasing down replacements for these gaskets?
2. What was their function? (might be answered by question 1 I guess)
3. Any tricks for removing the horrid melted mess from the doors?
Matt