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I have a beater truck, a '94 Chevy C2500. It's mostly pretty solid for a truck that's old enough to drink, and being a Southern California truck, it doesn't see road salt, so the panels and frame are okay. But there's this on the roof: So do I sand it out to bare metal, then prime and paint? Treat it with rust neutralizer and paint? Something else?
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Jun 9, 2016 19:02
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Jo3sh posted:I have a beater truck, a '94 Chevy C2500. It's mostly pretty solid for a truck that's old enough to drink, and being a Southern California truck, it doesn't see road salt, so the panels and frame are okay. But there's this on the roof: If it's truly a beater, leave it alone. It's the roof, the part most people don't see. If you want it fixed properly you need to neutralize it, sand it, add filler, sand again, sand the rest of the roof, mask and tape the rest of the truck, prime, sand, paint, clear. You might be able to eliminate the filler if you use a high build primer. Don't forget to sand.
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Jun 9, 2016 19:28
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Sand out as much as you can, use a converter/neutraliser to help arrest anything left in pits. Then prime and paint. That'll stop it and put you back to a baseline. If you want it to look "nice", treat the prime and paint stages as a "bodywork" exercise rather than just "protecting the metal".
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Jun 9, 2016 22:40
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Depends how long you want to keep the truck and how much money you want to put in. If you don't see yourself owning it in about 5 years, sand it down to bare metal and use any cheap rust killing primer. Otherwise do what the previous posters have said.
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Jun 9, 2016 22:57
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POR-15, followed by paintscratch.com's finest factory color... or just the POR-15 followed by some other topcoat. You could probably roll on Tremclad or Tractor paint with just a quick sanding of the roof. It'll be a 20' paint job, but it's the drat roof.
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Jun 10, 2016 03:16
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I'm not hung up on how it looks. It is a beater truck, after all. I just don't want to get to the point that it rusts through and dumps water in the cab. Maybe I'll paint it white to reject some heat from the sun. Thanks, all.
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Jun 10, 2016 04:15
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Two tone time! Get a cool white roof.
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Jun 10, 2016 04:23
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Just clear coat it Is called patina.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:03
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Personally I'd wire wheel rather than sanding, but yeah, just get the rust down to reasonably bare metal, apply rust converter paint, and you're done, depending on whether you want to go full beater mode or actually attempt to match the paint.
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Jun 10, 2016 18:48
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kastein posted:Personally I'd wire wheel rather than sanding, but yeah, just get the rust down to reasonably bare metal, apply rust converter paint, and you're done, depending on whether you want to go full beater mode or actually attempt to match the paint.
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Jun 10, 2016 19:18
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I just like it because it doesn't have a tendency to strip metal just as well as it does rust, like sanding does. A light sanding just to provide something for the paint to stick to after wirewheeling most of the rust off wouldn't hurt, you're right.
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Jun 10, 2016 19:35
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Just cut the roof off. It's a roadster now..
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Jun 10, 2016 19:36
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kastein posted:I just like it because it doesn't have a tendency to strip metal just as well as it does rust, like sanding does. A light sanding just to provide something for the paint to stick to after wirewheeling most of the rust off wouldn't hurt, you're right.
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Jun 10, 2016 20:10
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