I finally got around to removing the front & rear glass and prepping the channels. [PS - as figured the front windshield is headed to the landfill. THe rear came out fine, but it has some scratches that may not polish out. May be looking at new front and rear glass, from what I understand this should not be a problem ].

I lucked out, no rot, just some surface rust that I was able to clean and treat with Eastwood Oxysolve. Once it dried I wiped down and sprayed with an etch primer. I intend to epoxy these areas but wanted the added corrosion protection in the window channels. My question concerns the dash. I DA'd up to the dash pad and figure I will shoot this with epoxy when I prime the body.BUt how do you treat the seam where the dash meets the roof pillar. Can this be filled in and smoothed? It had a caulking in there but it has a depression. THis area was rather rusty on both sides from leaking windows so I had to dig it out to get to clean metal.

Also, what is the max time for epoxy to sit. Prior to appying 2K or basecoat or isn;t there one. At the rate I am going I am hoping to apply epoxy from the firewall back as well as the hood and trunk next weekend. Then I will work on getting the fenders stripped and prepped. Bottum line - I may not get back to the filler and blocking for a few weeks. So unless things happen alot faster, I am looking at maybe late November to apply BC/CC - weather permiting. If the temps drop, the BC/CC will have to wait for warm weather.

One last thing - I will do a search, but just incase I don't find the info, what has to be disassembled to remove the dashpad?

Looks like I keep responding to your posts. :>)

Sounds like you need some seam sealer to fill those areas back in. I would clean it out really good, spray etch and then epoxy. BTW, Oxisolve is junk. I used that under my vinyl top and the rust came back worse.

Check with SPI with recoat window on their epoxy, I would imagine 1 week is normal.

To take the dashpad out. You really should pull out the dash out, it's too hard to get in there. You will also need to take out the glove box, there are a few screws behing there. Total should be 7 self tapping nuts. I just did this last week.

Thanks for the reply. I did wash all the excess Oxysolve out. I just wanted something to clean out the last minute pores of rust - just in case. I found that scrubbing the pits with the Oxy and a brass wire brush really cleaned them out good. Either way, there wasn't much to deal with, but I didn't want to take any chance on not killing the rust.