[john70t]

Got an Eastwood shipment yesterday and washed/waxed a couple cars with Meguiars ceramic car wax

Today I spent four hours rust-treating the underside of a 80k mile 17yo Michigan Toyota which was in surprisingly good shape overall. The old Subaru stayed still and the jack kept going up. Actually the clunky and binding NAPA Performer struts installed last summer had more rust. Most of that time was spent trying to get my HF HPLV touch up sprayer to work with the chemical. There is no thinning or cleanup instructions and I did try a little acetone which didn't make much difference. Ideally you want a small spray gun to get into the tight crevices of the suspension system without wasting product and making a drippy mess on rubber/brakes/etc. The car was parked on a piece of plastic.

Glasses and chemical mask for me, although it did not burn the skin or smell.

The Eastwood treatment liquid in the bottle is way too gelatinous and dried too quickly to work in a spray gun, even though the package suggested it. Drove me nuts. The spray bottle puts out way too much product by itself. The important thing to remember is that the rust is not sealed until it's covered on all sides of the pores. This gelatin stays where it lands and I wish it was slightly thinner. That would have been better when coating the hidden tops of objects. I ended up using a 3" chip brush to work it all in from a small container although a 2" or 1" would have been more precise in some spots.

The end result seems a bit like a hard lacquer coating. It needs 48hr curing before topcoat. I also bought 2 cans of chassis black, 1 can chassis primer, some 'encapsulator' direct paint, 2 cans 360 inner-rail paint, 2 cans high temp exhaust silver, 6 cans undercoat. I will wrap the sides.

And then I am done...except for the Fluid Film inner 360 inner chassis injection after that just to be sure. Plus touch-up on some paint boogers.
Hah. I stepped in it this time.