Opinion Needed: Body Work help
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Right now it is tack welded right up against where the drip rail flange(mount) ends. It is going to be a long road cleaning it up, but I will try to get some pictures of the process.
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hey Ben that's looking good. Anyway that's the way I do it and I don't have any problems. I've got one truck I did this with in the early 90's and it sits outside most of the time and I've never had any problems-so far.
Once I grind down the welds a bit and massage some more I clean the bare metal and paint with DP expoxy primer, I then add the necessary amount of Evercoat/Everglass short strand fiberglass body filler, and shape and sand that accordingly, and then apply another coat of DP expoxy primer/and some primer surfacer/and then the finish paint. There's some controversy and differences of opinion about whether to apply epoxy primer "before the body filler". I try to and yet some gets sanded off a bit as I shape the later applied body filler, and I don't worry about it. I just keep going and feel I've done a good job of waterproofing when I apply a second dp epoxy coat over the finished body filler. The mfg-I believe-says to put primer beneath and on top of the filler, but I know plenty of expert users who say the body filler should go directly against the metal---who's right I dont' know.
That's how I do it. You can make other choices and variations for sure, but along this direction is what people generally do.
Goodluck Tom
Once I grind down the welds a bit and massage some more I clean the bare metal and paint with DP expoxy primer, I then add the necessary amount of Evercoat/Everglass short strand fiberglass body filler, and shape and sand that accordingly, and then apply another coat of DP expoxy primer/and some primer surfacer/and then the finish paint. There's some controversy and differences of opinion about whether to apply epoxy primer "before the body filler". I try to and yet some gets sanded off a bit as I shape the later applied body filler, and I don't worry about it. I just keep going and feel I've done a good job of waterproofing when I apply a second dp epoxy coat over the finished body filler. The mfg-I believe-says to put primer beneath and on top of the filler, but I know plenty of expert users who say the body filler should go directly against the metal---who's right I dont' know.
That's how I do it. You can make other choices and variations for sure, but along this direction is what people generally do.
Goodluck Tom
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If you do a search on applying body filler over or under epoxy primer its a 50/50 mix of what to do. I am applying mine over the epoxy for the simple reason that I cant get all the filler on and shaped before a little rust starts again do to limited time to work on the truck.So by applying the epoxy first I dont have the rust proplem.May start the 50/50 discusion on this but alot of boby guys even do this.
Nice work on the patchs.Slow and steady.
Nice work on the patchs.Slow and steady.
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