boot floor rust - again

If your waiting for a long hot summer in England there wont be any of your jimny left to treat :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Daniel30 wrote: How about trying that primer/sealer used for painting ships I'll try and find the thread on the forum later

Do you mean Aquasteel? I used it on my Junior underfloor and did suggest Mike use something like that though it requires a full 24 hrs to work before overcoating. Here is my thread anyway.

www.bigjimny.com/index.php/forum?view=topic&catid=6&id=57316

To my mind some steel panels seem to have the rust in the steel.

Halford wrote: 2 days after painting - it's started already .......... rusty drops

and no it's not dog wee, she hasn't been in the car since it was done, still a mistery where it's from :huh:

This is exactly the reason I've decided to break my hardtop...I've got patches on patches now and I'm bloody sick of it :sick:

My soft top, which is a year older, is all but perfect, and I don't think I'll ever come to terms with how different two virtually identical models with the same level of care can finish up at opposite ends of the 'metal moth scale' :whistle: :whistle:

Cheap metal and lack of underseal from new is no good.plus hal we live on the coast which wont help matters.id say thats bleeding through the hammerite will slow it but only answer is chop and weld.

think you guys are right, luck of the draw

my 2007 is rubbish compared to Gaz's 2000 reg

when I was in the navy we had red lead paint which was great, but we also had mercury that we filled darts with to make them heavier, but that was the good old days ..... :blink: where am I :huh:

anyway will check out Aquasteel or maybe smother everything in tar to exclude H₂O and O₂

[strike]lost in[/strike] watch this space

:laugh: will hold off a little longer before getting me chopper out Gaz, but better get practicing with that MIG though

gaz3359 wrote: Cheap metal and lack of underseal from new is no good.plus hal we live on the coast which wont help matters.id say thats bleeding through the hammerite will slow it but only answer is chop and weld.

Oh it's a coastal car. :ohmy: :blink:

I've had a few used from the coast and there must be sea salt in the air that gets into the steel. In a way you'd think a 4x4 would be engineered (I mean in metal terms) to be able to take all types of punishment from desert sand to see salt.

If you give the rust patches some real welly with the rotary wire brush I wouldn't mind betting the layer of salt shows itself. When that happens and the salt is exposed it is a pig to shift but you have to get it gone completely even if it seems like 50% or more of the metal is ground away.