I bought ym truck in October of 2016 and at the time didnt appear to ave any bad rust but since then the rear right wheel well and fender have gotten much worse. Recently the paint bubbles have been peeling off and leaving bare metal exposed underneath. I got quotes from a couple body shops for the work but it seems like a lot of money. I got my bed line-x'd recently and went back to them to see if they could spray the wheel wells and spray fender flares onto the body a bit. I am wondering if removing the rust, priming and spraying line-x onto it will keep the rust out of my life for a few years or if it will just come back. Guy at Line-x said it would be fine and would work well but i'm looking for some other opinions before i spend this kind of money.
Line-X to Fix Rust?
- Thread starter fraserg
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It won't fix rust, it'll just hide it until the bedsides or door skins fall off, it'll look ok for 6 months then it'll be white trash beautiful for sure.
They rust from the inside out, I'd replace the parts and keep them hosed out and oiled, plenty of holes in the fenders, doors, cab and bed to do so. I hit every hole I can everyone I wash mine and it looks like a southern truck.
They rust from the inside out, I'd replace the parts and keep them hosed out and oiled, plenty of holes in the fenders, doors, cab and bed to do so. I hit every hole I can everyone I wash mine and it looks like a southern truck.
Would sandblasting it and priming it not hold off rust for a long time though? Im new to this so I just want to make sure that the line-x will at least hold it off for the foreseeable future until I have enough money to get body work done properly. The Line-x quote is about 1/3 of what the body work would cost to get done.
In my experience, you're better off to find used body parts that are in good shape and just paint them, it's the labor in the body work that kills you.
Don't buy jap parts for anything especially the LMM-up, shits paper thin and rusts while the sun shines.
Don't buy jap parts for anything especially the LMM-up, shits paper thin and rusts while the sun shines.
IMHO, if you're trying to save money and not f yourself over, cut out all of the rot and get a cheap Mig and bottle and some new panels and weld them in as best you can. If you fin that you have a knack for it, then great. If you find that you are a hack, then Line-X over it to cover your sins. That would be a proper repair that'll stop the cancer from spreading. Anything else is pissing your money into the wind.
Fenders are cheap, beds are a grand, and if you look around you can find new take offs for 7-900 bucks, just gotta be patient, **** that patch panel shit, it doesn't work unless you have the rust inhibitor goop you smear on before you weld, and they still like to rust at the welds.
You could sand blast it, but the steel on these trucks are so thin if you aren't careful you'll warp the heck out of the panels and have bondo them to death, thus more labor for body work.
You could sand blast it, but the steel on these trucks are so thin if you aren't careful you'll warp the heck out of the panels and have bondo them to death, thus more labor for body work.
Yeah, the glue shit is still going to get junk between it and the old panel, and like I said, you can buy a whole bed for that.
If it's just surface rust, you could sand the shit out of it, line x it and keep the inside of the panels oiled to death to get you buy, but if it were mine I'd just get good used parts and swap them.
If it's just surface rust, you could sand the shit out of it, line x it and keep the inside of the panels oiled to death to get you buy, but if it were mine I'd just get good used parts and swap them.