Rusty Frame
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Rusty Frame
Well I have decided over this winter I'm really going to start working on my truck (1971 F-250 Highboy) I wanted to start with cleaning the frame. I went to town with a wire wheel, but without actually doing a frame of cleaning there are a lot of areas I simply can't reach. Is it acceptable to wire wheel what I can and then spray a rust stopper on the rest? I want to paint it all with POR15, but that stuff is expensive so I want to make sure I'm doing proper prep so I don't waste it.
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POR 15 has a metal prep product (or 2 steps) to use after your wire wheel.
As you know rust in cancerous so there is the potentiol of rust growing from where you can't treat it.
With the help of a few buddies you should be able to pull the bed off easy enough.
As for the cab. Probably the same buddies could help you lift it a few inches so you and prep and POR15 where the mounts are. And don't forget where the rad support mounts are. My '68 frame is real clean with light surface rust but for some reason one of the rad support mount holes is rusted bad enough that the hole has been enlarged and concaved.
Good luck.
As you know rust in cancerous so there is the potentiol of rust growing from where you can't treat it.
With the help of a few buddies you should be able to pull the bed off easy enough.
As for the cab. Probably the same buddies could help you lift it a few inches so you and prep and POR15 where the mounts are. And don't forget where the rad support mounts are. My '68 frame is real clean with light surface rust but for some reason one of the rad support mount holes is rusted bad enough that the hole has been enlarged and concaved.
Good luck.
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