Rust

[Major Lazy]

My newly acquired '87 RX has some rust. The areas vary in size from about a dime on the body, to a larger area inside the door near the hinges. Many of the areas are very hard to reach, and even if i could they are very irregular and would be hard to sand. Has anyone tried products that brush on and are supposed to reverse and stop further rusting? Eastwood Rust Encapsulator is one I've found. If anyone has used this or anything similar I wold appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks,

 

Carl

[chef_tim]

Hey Carl, look up "POR15". A lot of restorers swear by it. I think the website is www.por15.com .They have a multitude of products, I tried a "starter kit" and it seemed to hold up well on spot repairs. Later, Tim

[Jerry DeMoss]

Hey Carl, look up "POR15". A lot of restorers swear by it. I think the website is www.por15.com .They have a multitude of products, I tried a "starter kit" and it seemed to hold up well on spot repairs. Later, Tim

 

I agree with your advice. POR15 is really good stuff.

[ScottG]

I've had good luck with a prodict called EXTEND, which I think is made by Union Carbide. it's been around for some time...I think I first used it on rust in my VW Camper (no longer have it) back in the mid 80s. I bought an underbody spray rustproofing kit from J C Whitney around 1998 and used EXTEND in it(I bought a gollon of the stuff at NAPA for $78) & sprayed the underside of my Isuzu diesel pickup (no longer have it). I also did the inside of the doors & inside the frame rails. I credit EXTEND with lengthening the life of my truck, which had extensive rust on the underside of the cab, including some rust-through.

 

Scott

[TheLoyale]

Yeah that stuff sounds good! I've used some rust solvent stuff like that too. it's mades by the "Bondo" compeny, It comes in a pink jelly/goo formula and the longer you leave it on the better it works. What it does is take the rusted/roted metel and turns it black and will stop that from rusting even more. but what i do is really goop it on the area and let it sit...... and sit..... For maybe an hour (Less time and it will work just as fine) Then apply some bondoglass (Bondo with Fiberglass reson in it) It's really strong and it will never chip off! But anyhoo the "Bondo rust remover" will work until you get around to fixing it right.

 

 

Best of luck with it!

-Tom

[dhise]

I used por15 on my wagon over the course of the spring and early summer. It had some pretty extensive rust being a MI car it's whole life and I was up for experimenting so we will see how it works on a daily driver in the rust belt. So far it is holding up very well, but I am curious to see how it will do in the long run.

 

-Doug

[Reveeen]

Seems to me we have been here before?

 

Unit body cars have two kinds of sheet metal.

Structure and decoration.

 

Structure has to be fixed properly, as in sandblasting, welding, and painting.

 

Decoration is up to you.

 

a larger area inside the door near the hinges

 

I would consider "structure" and treat accordingly.

[MilesFox]

my rx was rusty at the seams enough that the rear floorboards are now a sunoco food mart sign.

 

i have been using this "rust'n me"??? or something like that its's called, you brush it on and it eats up the rust. i have been using it with a wire wheel between apps and finally a coat of white galvanized primer brush-on.