Hey guys. With the weather getting to be nicer I'm going to start removing surface rust / flaky paint on my truck and want to know what products you guys like to use for rust conversion product that turns to primer / paintable surface so I can have some cans of touch up paint made for my truck to make it at least the same color for a while. I don't want more rust to form and really want to be able to paint after removing because there are quite a lot of spots I'm going to be wire wheeling. Thanks

 

Everybody has their favorites. For tightly attached and significant rust I like Eastwood rust encapsulator. It is black in spray can or brush. It can be painted directly or a coat of primer/surfacer then paint.

If you are wire wheeling to semi-clean steel, rustoleum red primer in spray can works well... or the brush type.

 

Stuff called Ospho works pretty good I like it

 

The most mentioned products on this forum seem to be products that are painted on and seal in the rust and protect it from further rust (if I understand the process correctly):
POR15
Eastwood Products
Chassis Saver

My father suggested a product (rust converter) called Corroseal which claims to be a "rust converter." There doesn't seem to be much info on that out there. Anyone heard of it or used it?

 

What mount is that as none of mine on my 81 were open like that and I know because I had the cab off the frame to repair rust.

Wire brush the rust the best you can then hit it with in a spray bottle.

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This works good for areas like this and doors because the skin is folded over the frame and if you were to un-fold the lip you will see rust.
When I have done doors I had them off the car/truck and would do a side and let sit over night then hit the next side and so on till all sides where sprayed and it had time to work in.

If you have surface rust with pits again after you knock down the heavy stuff spray it on and let it do its thing for a day or two before you go doing anything to the panel.

Areas you can get to with a brush like back side of fenders I have used

Eastwood Black Rust Encapsulator - Paint Over Rust
and for areas you cant, like A pillars, boxed in rockers panels, between hood skin & frame work, etc. I have used

Eastwood Internal Frame Coating 14oz Aerosol
And to strip rust and paint down to bare metal I use

7 Inch Cleaning / Stripping Disc System
That is my army to fight rust
Dave ----
ps: no I don't have stock in Eastwood just what I found works best when restoring a car that uses 1 year only parts that no one make parts for and the company went under back in 1988.

 

Here is the last member of my army to fight rust!
Removing rust using electrolysis. Rust removal by electrolysis


Yes I have used this started off small in a 5 gal bucket then moved up to a homebuilt pool to do fenders and hoods.


That is a fender and 2 bumper brackets in there. I do not have any of the hoods in the pool I did.
Fenders after the "swim"



If looking to make a pool I can tell you how I did it and what I used the 2x4's and 4x4's for after I did not need to pool and the family will enjoy it.
Dave ----