[rechinca]

Lower cowl patch and repair completed. I treated a bunch of the areas around the fresh air vents with Permatex rust convertor after scraping out all of the old seam sealer and sanding down any rust I could get to.

** little tip her me for rust on the bottom side of the vent holes *
- I used Emory cloth as well as some 80 grit paper cut in strips and ran it back and forth like you were polishing metal. Cleaned up a lot of the heavy scale rust hidden up under there!

I hit everything in the lower cowl and the vent area with Eastwood Platinum Encapsulator. I brushed it on and it covers very well. Do yourself a favor and buy a couple of decent brushes though. I spent $10 total on good 1 1/2” and 2 1/2” Ace Hardware brand brushes and it left zero brush strokes.

Next up will be covering all of the seams with fresh seam sealer and then painting before welding in the new inner cowl panel.