painting over rust on my grille?

[rtoney9]

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I just got my 2" body lift on and now I have some rust showing on the bottom edge beneath my grille slats. The support bracket in the center is also highly visible now that the lift is on. I was thinking that I could sand the rust off, prime it, and paint over it with black automotive paint? I thought about just making me a line that is even with the bottom of my grille slats and that way it would look like it was always that way. I will also paint the support bracket this way too. What do ya'll think? what is the best primer to use for this application. to seal the rust.

edited by: rtoney9, Jul 17, 2003 - 05:53 AM[addsig]

 

[jhiggins]

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POR-15 is the one and only way to ga ...best ever just my $.02 :-D [addsig]

 

[Jeeper89]

Welcome to the new forum

i have heard POR-15 is really good, but i just use Krylon primer or just the $.94 can from Wal-Mart and i have never had the rust spread with eather one of thoes, but i would say probly go with the POR-15 just to be safe

 

[84_CJ7]

Hammerite will do both.

 

[jhiggins]

POR-15 hands down ....I chalenge any others...

 

[jps4jeep]

Grind down the cancerous area to bar metal then apply the POR 15! Don't just slap it over the rust (even though it says you can) Rust will most likely return in a short time if this is what you do!

 

[rtoney9]

thanks for the input. I decided to just sand it down with a grinding wheel, prime it, and paint it. I did it this weekend and it looks good. I can't even tell that the black stripe I made (to cover the rust and the support bracket that was showing after my lift were on) was not part of the factory paint job. Thanks for the info guys.

 

[Snitty]

Good job... one mistake that many people make is leaving the rust... yeah, por15 does convert rust, but even then, there is usually an amount of rust that it never hits... it is always best to get rid of it all