Ha-HA!! DSL! Glad to see you've overcome what I'm up against!
I fixed the b-pillars by forming new pieces and BOLTING them in, but I think I'm going to switch my focus back to the hot glue gun (welder). Looks like it worked good for you!
What paint technology did you use to deal with the rusty metal?
Anyone use undercoating before?
If I were to wirewheel or sandblast a rusted area, and spray it with asphalt undercoating, you guys think it would hold for a few years minimum? Would it stink too bad to be acceptable for interior sections of the floor?
Sandblasting is definitly the way to go. It'll get into places where the wheel won't.
I cheated by using the local sandblasting shop. Couldn't beat the price. 325 clams to blast, primer/seal and paint the frame, blast, primer/seal the cab, bed both bumpers and core support.
Heck, I couldn't buy the materials for that, let alone the man hours involved. The guys did a helluva job and are quite proud of the outcome as they demanded to see it completed.
The sandblasting alleviated all of the rust that I couldn't cut out and replace.
As far as paint went, I used the Napa Crossfire acrylic goodies.
Price was right since I have that jobber account. Bout 150 clams for a gallon of paint.
As you can tell I primer/sealed EVERYTHING then painted and cleared it all even underneath. I then undercoated everything under the truck. I think the cans of rubberized undercoating ended up at 12 cans.
Yeah that stuff aint cheap neither.
But tis what I wanted and so far it has made 2 winters of road seasoning and is holding up really well.
Agnem said:
I'd recommend visiting your local class 1 railroad mainlines, and relieve them of one of those large no tresppassing signs, that are always in the way of me taking my pictures.
Or I could just put in an order for ya hey Mel.