Hey everyone, due to the quarantine I?ve been doing lots of needed maintenance on my 85 245 that I?d been putting off. One major thing that I?ve been dealing with for three years now is rust. I?m in Northern Vermont where they load the roads with salt. The underneath is undercoated and I?ve never had any issues there, all my rust is popping up from paint chips on the hood and tailgate
I?ve ground the spots down past the rust to bare metal, treated it with rust converters, used automobile primer and paint on the spots, and yet year after year they pop up with rust in the exact same spots. I?m genuinely lost at this point. I?ve done some searching and found some advice from this forum to use different acids to neutralize the rust, and rather than using automotive primer, a machinist forum recommended a different bare metal primer.
I am going to try these things as soon as I can get to a store, but I was curious if there were any other suggestions out there, or maybe a thread with some great advice that I missed?
I?ve ground the spots down past the rust to bare metal, treated it with rust converters, used automobile primer and paint on the spots, and yet year after year they pop up with rust in the exact same spots. I?m genuinely lost at this point. I?ve done some searching and found some advice from this forum to use different acids to neutralize the rust, and rather than using automotive primer, a machinist forum recommended a different bare metal primer.
I am going to try these things as soon as I can get to a store, but I was curious if there were any other suggestions out there, or maybe a thread with some great advice that I missed?