Hi
What I am trying to do is inspect the cavity around my windshield to see if there is any serious corrosion.
I am "happy" to take a wing off and drill a small inspection hole. Drilling a hole is not an issue as long as it is small. I will rustproof it and seal with a bung afterwards.
I have seen some inspection cameras but they all seem to need reasonably large holes apart from one which has a 5.5mm diameter head. That one does not have a light on it though.
Does anyone here have any experience of these things. Should I just give up on the idea?
The problem I have is that if I inject the rustproofing fluid into the cavity it will make a future repair more difficult if there is in fact some serious rust.
I have a couple of bubbles on my sill for instance. With that I was able to get a light source into the sill through one of the slots that retain the cover and then look through a different hole and see enough of the corrosion to make a judgement call. In fact the corrosion was fairly minor so I gave the inside of the sill a good blasting and injected the bubbles with rustproofing fluid through a hypodermic needle from the outside. That should slow the corrosion down a lot if not pretty much stop it. At some point I will have the sill repainted and a proper inspection done then.
All the best
Berni
What I am trying to do is inspect the cavity around my windshield to see if there is any serious corrosion.
I am "happy" to take a wing off and drill a small inspection hole. Drilling a hole is not an issue as long as it is small. I will rustproof it and seal with a bung afterwards.
I have seen some inspection cameras but they all seem to need reasonably large holes apart from one which has a 5.5mm diameter head. That one does not have a light on it though.
Does anyone here have any experience of these things. Should I just give up on the idea?
The problem I have is that if I inject the rustproofing fluid into the cavity it will make a future repair more difficult if there is in fact some serious rust.
I have a couple of bubbles on my sill for instance. With that I was able to get a light source into the sill through one of the slots that retain the cover and then look through a different hole and see enough of the corrosion to make a judgement call. In fact the corrosion was fairly minor so I gave the inside of the sill a good blasting and injected the bubbles with rustproofing fluid through a hypodermic needle from the outside. That should slow the corrosion down a lot if not pretty much stop it. At some point I will have the sill repainted and a proper inspection done then.
All the best
Berni