Bus and bumper

The bumpers take their time. The front bumper is ready painted and assembled. There is a slight difference in color between the bumper and the car, probably the old paint can, so it needs a respray. It does not have the highest priority. But today I cleaned and buffed the bonnet, to see if the color difference could have been was caused by the older paint from the car. I also fiddled to mount the front bumper on the car, and at last I partly succeeded. I'm not in a hurry.

 Ready to go.

It's on! Color difference?

In the meanwhile I looked at the cut little bus at the bumper's right mountingpoint. The rusted screw was to loosen from the bumper but it didn't cooperate. So I had to cut off the plastic cylinder, as shown in my last post. The solution is to mount a little piece of petrol tube to substitute the bus. But still, I'm not in a hurry.

The first thing to do now is to buy a new battery for the sportqwagon, I getting bored from dismounting the 146-battery and installing it in the sportwagon and the same in the reversed order.

By the way, from a friendly co-Alfist I got a rearwindow screenwiper motor from an Alfasud. Alass it didn't fit on my sportwagon rearwindow. Right on both pictures is the Alfasud motor. which is now for sale. Thanks all the way, Bert.


Oh, and this one. Since my daughter got an iPod, I also play a little game on it. Especially I like this game. In a few weeks I got to the 4th tier (from 5) and now driving an Audi R8. There are no Alfa's in this (probably) american game, besides some Chevrolets, Fords and Nissan's, there are some BMW's, Audi's and Mini's in progressive types and engine versions. The game is a typical muscle car game: driving in straight lines and as fast as the motor pulls. Nice is the upgrade option of the game: winning earns you money and upgrades are to be mounted. You can even hire a mechanic and the effect in the handling of the car is remarkable.

Painting the frontbumper

Two jobs get mixed up now and I'll have to focus on the older one. So, finally I got the paint for the bumpers, although it were only two cans while I ordered three. One of them was very old, I noticed it when I was home. I decided to give it a go, so I could finish the project. I regretted that later. I bought a can of plastic primer too, so is would cover the the damaged paint layer on the bumper.

The can in the middle has expired 2010, the new one expires 2022! But it was good enough to finish the front bumper and the little foglight spats. 

The two testpanels, the foglight spats. The quality of the paint on the bumper is fully dependable on the underground surface of the plastic, when one don't want to fill the surface with filler. Two different spats: left very smooth, right really rough.

Color check on the car. The Blue Lord is 23 years old, some refreshment of the paint wil be necessary, some day.

The front bumper after sanding and the first layer of plastic primer in my backyard

Strange stuff, that primer. It looks aweful, but when the paint is on, al irregularities are gone.

Didn't I tell you? A few layers of paint and the world looks different again.

Rough plastic surface, here too.

Commandant 4 (cleaner) and some old cloth to make an effort for more smoothness. 

Right on the bleu paint, no clear vernish on.

After some polishing. Somewhat better results.

Oh yes, that nasty mounting point I had to demolish to get out that %^*(@#$-corroded screw. 

I fiddled about a few hours to get the screw out.

This is how it's originally. Some thinking will be necessary to mount it good on the 33.

More bumpers, front

Now the front bumper is to disassemble. Luckily the rust isn't that worse on the attachement elements. So only the bumper itself is to be sanded and painted, I reckon,

Rear bumper mounting elelmetnts, rust had some grip on them.

Front bumper with rusted screws and nuts. Maybe I'll leave it so.

Motip has two colours of Blu Lord. Alfa Romeo number 428 is the color Blu Lord, Alfa color 438 is  listed in the Motip catalogue as Alfa blu 8C. The 428 number has listed the years 18983 to 1988, 438 the the years from 1988. so I decided to order the 438 number, Alfa Blu 8C, because the year AND the number were compatible with my car. I'm curious what colour I eventually wil get.

Bumper disassembly

Today I disassembled my QV rear bumper and I sanded it. The inner structural elements were also sanded and treated with Brunox. I realised I already emptied 9 little cans of that anti-rust stuff. Now  I think I need a bigger bottle (400 ml instead of 150 ml). The linked adress is the cheapest in the country, when you'r ordering one at a time. Others are cheaper when you're ordering 12 bottles at a time. This seller is the cheapest in bigger volume orders. Maybe we have to put us together for a really great order. Someone interested?

Now I saw the plastic bumper is not wholy painted, there are some spots where there is no paint on the plastic bumper. So some plastic primer is to be sold to treat the surface right. Also there are some dents and scratches int the surface, #$#$%#$^%$#, so I need to put some paste on it to make it really smooth.

Maybe I'll do some internet courses to learn how to do it.

Unpainted spots on the QV rear bumper

Square towing hook sapce on the underside, scratches on top, 

bumperless SW in background

Mounting elelements with some layers of Brunox

Mounting elements drying in my garage

Front bumper in better shape, with small gray QV rim underneath,

no foglights mounted