Restoring/Cleaning Wheel Wells

[workmeistr]

Due to the P.O.’s run-in with freshly-painted white paint, supposedly years ago, I redid the wheel wells with Napa #4501 Body Shield, rubber-based undercoating. The chassis grime is best removed by Simple Green and paper towels (no green pad or other harsh scrubber as to introduce scratches into the paint), followed by a “waxing” of Meguiar’s Cleaner Wax in the maroon jar. The cleaner wax removes the Simple Green residue and cleans the harsher areas where the Simple Green missed. It’s a great product and I learned of its cleaning ability while restoring Land Rovers. Once cleaned/waxed, the chassis is must easier to maintain, especially after mudding activity.



I’m not completely off my cleanliness rocker, here. I’ve always enjoyed routine maintenance more when I have a clean area to work with.

[Ldub]

WOW...that looks showroom clean...

[kodiak]

Nice! Looks good, I need to do that.

[OHVX'er]

Very impressive! That does look great

[tom4bren]

"I’ve always enjoyed routine maintenance more when I have a clean area to work with."

I can relate - I spent 30 minutes per side cleaning all that up on Friday before I started the CV boot replacement.

Your wheel wells look great - you can do mine when you're here in Jan

[nfpgasmask]

Bren,

That does look really nice, I have thought of doing something similar. I also need to figure out where all the dust is coming in from my rear wheel wells. Whenever I go offroad, I end up with loads of road dust inside me driver's side storage compartment (where the stock bottle jack goes). I think there must be some sort of hole or something that the tires kick loads of dust up into. I really need to pull of my interior panels and get to the bottom of all that.

Bart