Stripping, Cleaning and Painting Jenvey ITB's-one now painted

badger5 · Jun 27, 2011

beaniegti said: ↑

I forgot i started this! Never mind, i shall update incase anyone is interested.

In the end time was running short on my holiday and the garage was bloody cold last winter so only one of the bodies got done-turned out ok though and the other has been 90% prepped. I also didn't have the time nor inclination to search out for chemicals or other methods and finishes so i stuck to what i'd done on previous engine components.

Anyway, first thing was to strip them down. Easy peasy.

Although they'd already been given a very quick degrease when i first got the engine it had clearly been a bit of a token effort so i used a bit of bilthamber to shift the restof the grime-good stuff this and has served me well.

After that the 'fun' began.

As i would be painting them i needed to get rid of some of the casting texture. I didn't want to go all out and have them super smooth as it would take forever and it would be very difficult to maintain a good surface with just hands and a dremel-for me anyway!

I did get carried away on the easy bits and smoothed the edge of the flange that meets the head and the one that meets the trumpets.

you can see the shiny smooth flange here.

I also couldn't resist quickly polishing up the brass vac fitting

Although they look quite polished at this stage its only because i'd gone over them with a wheel on the dremel as i did briefly consider the polished look. Fortunately i'm not that much of a glutton for punishment/idiot!

I then quickly rubbed over them again just to be sure they were decently keyed, blew them out thoroughly with an airline and began masking.

I had a bit of 'mare trying to mask some areas with tape so stumbled on the idea of using blu-tac. This turned out to be a master stroke as it could be modelled into area's my clumsy hands just couldn't reach with tape.

With the fiddly work done i got out a can of PJ1 satin black and sprayed until my lungs bled (i did use a mask but not a particularly good one). This stuff, although it smells like no other aerosol i've used, is ideal as it doesn't require primer and goes on very nicely from the can.

So the final result....

Overall i'm pretty pleased-they aren't 100% perfect as there were some strange imperfections in the cast and extra bits of material here and there but i seem to remember Bill B saying these were the development bodies for the DTH Jenveys (?) so i was reluctant to start grinding anything away.

The trumpets have seen better days with numerous little dings here and there but they came up well enough with nothing more than autosol and some good old fashioned elbow grease. Stainless bolts have also since been ordered and fitted so they should look pretty good. Fingers crossed they still work

All i need now are some nice, polished Jenvey or Badger5 logo's Oh, and to do the other one
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you've had these a while dude.
they do look better painted

beaniegti · Jun 27, 2011

Tell me about it!! Must have been 2 years or more now and they've still not made it into the car

Although i actually only see the car for 5 weeks of the year, so if you think about it like that i'm making cracking progress

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