Finally got my arse into gear and working on the project again. I chipped some of the passenger side of the trans tunnel and have found some curious things. There is red oxide paint on the bare metal but only part way up.

From memory, Datsun didn't apply any primers to the floors or tunnel. They just applied the tar sound absorbing mats. The link below clearly shows that the area has been sprayed before.

My thoughts are that a PO has made a huge modification and stripped the body before and applied red oxide paint then replaced the tar stuff, then re-sprayed the entire car.

Anybody care to shed some light? Good news is that the metal is lickable. Yippe, I was thinking the worst.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1122/transtunnelbaremetal0if.jpg

LICKABLE!!!

i love it, but i nearly spit out a mouthful laughing.

sorry i don't have any info for you but i had to express my appreciation for a good laugh.

thanks,

bart

Bump.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

did you hit any animals while you were driving? maybe it got caught in there... i dont recomend licking it in that case....

Are you positively sure that's primer? To my eyes it looks as though it may have been the original Red paint, but I could be fooled by the lack of shine.

However, as you pointed out, it wouldn't be far fetched for someone to have taken the time to "protect" the metal with primer.

2¢

Enrique

Thanks Enrique,

The paint "looks" like that red oxide paint that you apply to RSJ's. It isn't the same paint that you can see on the consol mounting bracket.

Very strange it being there.

I wonder if any other members noticed the same thing when they stripped their pans out????????

It looks like its been brushed on. If so some time after manufacture of the car.

G'day to ya too! This looks curious indeed. Was it bare metal under the tar paper?

When I stripped the tar paper off mine there was the factory dipped primer. The beige color primer. You can also tell that they applied the tar paper over the primer then painted it color. That's why there are "patches" of paint.