Bodywork advice, please...

[mitche]

I removed the left front fender today and revealed this:




What do you recommend doing.
I understand that I need to clean all the dirt and so forth. But do I really need to get down to bare metal?

Should I use a heatgun or maybe a "minisandblaster", all tips are appreciated?

Advice me

mike

[elflamo]

To me it doesn't look too bad from what can been seen here. I've tried several rust remover options over the past 4 years. If possible, I would always go for the media blasting, that will tell you for sure what the real state of the metal is.

Next best option for me would be the 3M nylon discs on an angle grinder, but they don't get into the pinholes. So you will have some 'rust particels' left. If you run into black pitting, only the media blaster does it for me.

Get it sorted before your rain gutters crumble away...

Good luck.

Elflamo

[BReyes]

I would say you need a complete restoration. For some divine inspiration you tore into your car. This is drastic but now that you have begun undercar restoration anything short of rotisserie is just that.

Wire wheel on a large electric drill. A POR15 type of undercoat. A top coat of 3M rubberized undercoat and Cobalt blue on the underside (It is Cobalt blue isn't it?). Will make the top of the car look like...

[HarryD]

I am not expert but if most of the metal is sound, I would treat the rust with a rust converter (Rust Mort, Naval Jelly, Extend etc), prime and paint and move on.

If you want to do a major restoration, of course that is an option too.

[burgermeister]

+1

A wire brush and a screwdriver should let you know if all is solid or not.

[joe_72T]

Can I get some avdice as well?

I have removed the door panels and pockets from my car in order to restore them. Both doors are very solid but there is some minor rust on the inside surface on one door (about 1/2 x 2 inches). It does not look like much but before I put everything back together I would like to do what I can without getting into anything major.

I was thinking of taking a wire wheel to this area and then coating it. Do you think this is ok?
Should I use the "rust converter" (rist mort, naval jelly, extend) as another member stated?
any other suggestions?

Thank you all

[Zeke]

Can't paint over goo. Just don't leave any bar metal between the fender and body and button it up. To the last question, treat it, but make sure that it doesn't go thru the metal and is covered up by recent paint on the outside. It will come thru no matter what if it's covered. Otherwise, hit it with The Must For Rust and then POR 15.