The first picture of this thread showed already the freshly repainted x-bar...: While it is a bit of work to remove it to get access to the pipes, it is a very good idea anyway, because it was very very badly rusted. And here in Australia cars really do not rust easily, thus, I don't even want to know, hwo those x-bars look in countries with snow and salt on the roads... The process from right to left: rusty, magic with wire brush on angle grinder (wear eye protection!), and painted with black Z