Acid spill & Rust repair questions

Hi Angelo, For the rust in your truck, use a product such as Oxysolve to dissolve the rust and leave a zinc phosphate coating behind which will help prevent future rust. Then the area can be primed and painted as usual. For the pits in your window channel, I would just prime with Feather Fill (spray on two part polyester filler-primer) and block sand the pitted area until it is straight. You would be surprised how much filling the Feather Fill can do with just a couple heavy coats. Good luck....

Angelo,

The rust in the trunk area is not very important. As panteraufo says you can use some kind of rust devolving gel on that or media blast it. The area at the base of your windscreen looks quite bad. Poke it hard with a screw driver, if you go through you must weld in some new metal. If you dont go through you can media blast it. It's essential to remove all the rust form the bottom of the pits. You cant do this with abrasive belts ot discs etc because if there is any rust left in the bottom of the pits it will come back and spoil your day a few years down the road. Nobody likes having to pull their windscreen.

If you have to weld in new metal you could use some heat sinking putty to minimise distortion on the scuttle panel. This area is not too bad to work on as you do have some access to the inside through the holes where the grills fit.

Johnny

Angelo, neutralize the battery acid and flush with lots of water, dry and get most of the loose rust off with a wire brush, they use Jasco Prep and Prime...one quart at Home Depot is about $10 and would do your whole trunk and probably the entire engine bay...Prep and Prime turns the rust into Iron Phosphate...is super easy to apply with a paint brush, then prime it and it will never rust again.

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...use Jasco Prep and Prime...one quart at Home Depot is about $10 and would do you whole trunk and probably the entire engine bay...Prep and Prime turns the rust into Iron Phosphate...is super easy to apply with a paint brush, then prime it and it will never rust again.

That's the stuff I used to coat my inner frame rails.
http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/...=606101266#606101266


I also used it to neutralize any rust when I repainted the underside of my hood a few years ago:
http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/...0045562/m/6420018144

Thanks for the advice!
I'm now planning on soda blasting the car, that should neutralize the acid while cleaning things up. I've been scraping with the heat gun removing as much junk off of the car as possible before blasting. What a time consuming pain in the rear.

Hard to believe this project started with just a compressor replacement.

Thanks again for the advice.

Angelo