Just finished bead blasting and installing new bushing on my lower control arms. I'd like to give these the factory look.

Weren't these covered with cosmolem for shipment from the factory? I'm not sure what color to paint but I'm thinking of clear coating when complete.

Any suggestions and pictures would be of great help.

Thanks, Doug

Heres one dipped in cosmoline! They were held at the ball joint end.

nice

Used Resto Ricks Quasimoline urethane. Nice dry finish, no sticky problems to deal with.

Those look very nice.

Did you coat the bare metal on the ends with anything?

I dip mine in real cosmoline just like the factory did. You end up with highlighted streaks that you can't get with spraying them. Besides, how are you going to get paint coverage way down in the middle of the arm? The bushings are installed AFTER dipping.

To those guys that dipped their's, where did you find the cosmoline and what process did you use?

Thanks,
Joe

Just did a web search...Here's one for instance

http://www.mil-specproducts.com/cosmo_l.aspx

Thanks,

I had previously searched and am aware of this vendor as well as others online... I am more interested in finding out from those that have already done it, what source they used... As you can see from the two postings, the color/tone appears different and I was trying to find out what source each used...

Thanks again for the suggestion,
Joe

It is a CRC product I bought through Fastenal Supply, I bought a 5 gal pail which works out perfectly to be deep enough for dipping.

Thanks...

I appreciate the details,
Joe

I bought some spray cans from Schafco, who owns the Cosmoline trade mark. They explain their products on their website. I mixed and matched and bought a case.

Have yet to experiment.

http://www.schafco.com/cosmoline.asp

what other parts are on a car that needs cosmoline?

Hate to rain on your parade but...... Houghton owns the rights to the Cosmoline name they are the original makers of this product.... the real name of the product is; Cosmoline 1102.I have a 20 litre pail of the stuff, it's the real deal.

Later, BUZZ

I bought a block of the stuff from an army surplus outlet, you heat it up and it thins out nice and you can dip your arms in it, works well but it does stay a little tacky like the oe stuff,

Here's the CRC in a spray can. It could be applied heavy to get the run affect. I cleaned my arms and washed off all the org while rebushing the ft end. My arms weren't blasted or painted as I am not doing a resto just trying to preserve it, so there was some surface rust I had left alone. Seems to work very well and only need to get 1 can insted of a bucket.

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And the arm. I did mine laying flat, should have hung then and let it run

The CRC spray on stuff looks pretty good to me.