Is your frame rusty?
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From: Senoia, GA
oh ya.....well, well.... i used water colors from the dollar store and it did better than anyone else's!
nanny nanny boo boo!
i have used rustoleum on most of my parts and have gotten very good results but then again i sandblast everything before i spray it. i am too cheap to get the POR15
-cutts-
nanny nanny boo boo!
i have used rustoleum on most of my parts and have gotten very good results but then again i sandblast everything before i spray it. i am too cheap to get the POR15
-cutts-
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From: Remsen, NY
My father-in-law painted the bottom rear side edge of his supercab where they all rust a couple of years ago, it was just starting the bubble up a tiny little bit on his '96. I guess he scraped the bubbles off and used POR-15. Lo and behold a month later it was bubbling there again. So he decided POR-15 was junk. He wouldn't listen to me that the rust was coming from the back side of the metal. Water off of your feet runs into that trough along the rocker panel and sits against the back side of that sheet metal and eventually pinholes it and runs in between it and the paint on the outside and rusts from there.
The point is, without prepping it and completely sealing it from both sides, nothing, even something as good as POR-15, will work. If the water can get under it it will still rust. You may not have to get the rust completely off, but it hast to be clean of grease and you have to completely seal it from all sides.
The point is, without prepping it and completely sealing it from both sides, nothing, even something as good as POR-15, will work. If the water can get under it it will still rust. You may not have to get the rust completely off, but it hast to be clean of grease and you have to completely seal it from all sides.
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From: GANS
Originally Posted by Samsonitesamsonite
would it work to use it as a complete primer for the body?
rustoluem rusty metal primer isn't good for full body paint jobs. it is really soft, and you have to put it on real thin and leave it dry in between coats. That said, I welded filler into my fender bedside, then coated it with rustoleum primer. 3 years later, still no rust.
then again, I've seen it rust thru in a few months.
Like fishy said, the most important thing is prep work. Nothing works unless you have a good, rust & oil free surface. And it needs sealed as well.
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