Rust Repair Part 2

[Blurred Talon]

Loaded up the Tracker and left the house around 10ish today. As you can see in the picture, snow, oh joy!

Once I got out to the car around 11:30ish the snow/rain had stopped and by 2pm it had cleared up so I started working.
Car still covered by the car cover and a fish net. I need a better car cover for next year.

I decided to attack the hatch first. As you can see it's rust but trust me when I say the one on my car is worse.

A flap disc to clean up some surface rust and a cut off wheel to cut out the real bad parts.

Next, I turned my attention to the back of the car. First I wanted to pull the spare tire holder. I had a set of cheap spot weld cutters that broke instantly when I tried to use them. I ended up just using a regular drill and my grinder to cut most of it out.

I then trimmed the rust out of the wheel wells and below the tail lights.

By then it was starting to get dark so I decided to start chipping the filler out of the Eagle emblem recess on the 97 bumper. This was an absolute bi***! I need to get a hand sander to finish it up.

That's it for today, not a whole lot of work but it's a start. More work tomorrow, should start welding on the car I hope.

 

[hurricanecris24]

I Hate rust!!!

 

[TheRealPVTRyan]

I can't wait to see the finished product. Looks like you're doing a really thurough job. What do you plan to do to prevent rust from coming back?

 

[Blurred Talon]

Right now it's just going to be good ol primer and paint. I'll be using a bit of Rust Check Rust Killer too as I've had good luck with it keeping rust away on my rebuilt shock towers.

Eventually I want to chemically strip the shell and use some sort of rust preventative coating on the whole thing (POR15, Rust Bullet or KBS).

 

[Chuck981]

Yup I'm gonna be using por 15 to revive my laser rs, the strut towers are good but underneath the car is a different story.

 

[JStrateger]

Man, this looks annoying but when you get done it'll be worth is hundredfold because you won't have to worry about rust again for quite some time.

I've never seen rust this bad on a 2G, any idea why it rusted so bad? Is it just Canada's cold climate?

 

[Blurred Talon]

This isn't bad trust me, I've seen far worse even in Ontario.

Out here in Newfoundland cars can rust pretty bad thanks to the salt sea air.