I folks, My name is Phil & I am in the midst of rust repair salvage. My frame is bad & I'm doing what I can with it & addressing many issues at the same time. I'm doing this as the money comes in and it's turned into a pretty big project for me. I'm gonna post some pics. I hope you all enjoy them.

 

the bed supports were bad as well

 

after a few weekends of using an air scaler, disc grinder & wire brush It was clear my rear "X" member was bad.

 

lots of work to chip off a whole lot of rust.

 

That looks ugly, I hate rust.

 

I had to make a "X" member out of 2" X 3" box tubing & 1/4" plate steel. Also a spare tire lift rack & I'm also adding a piece of 3" channel across the rear of the frame rails. Grade 8 hardware where I can.

 

I used Corraseal rust converter. Then a couple coates of duplicolor engine enamel (held up to the weather better than any of the other paints I tried). Corraseal worked great.

 

Looks much nicer!

 

I'll post more tomorrow. I've done a lot to her. New parking brakes, brake backing plates, hub seals,discs, ceramic pads. New brake lines, hoses, shocks & rear cover. Installed new muffler & tail pipe. sneek peek.

 

That looks fantastic! Nice work. I cannot believe how much rust is visible in the grass after scaling it.

 

If you are going to have red shocks, you need to also paint the calipers red.

 

Nice work! Looks great.

 

You put in a ton of hours on that - good job!

 

That looks great!

 

That looks awesome, very, very nice!!!