Progress Update

[55 Fargo]

Hi all, since my seat fire last Sunday, I have been busy working on the left rear fender, and inner wheel well.

I finally got the both areas inside the fender, the outer wheel wells, prepped to a point of, it was driving me nuts.

After all areas were stripped of rust, old paint, and undercoating, I then welded some holes and cracks.

These areas were all treated with Picklex 20, they were then primered with rusty metal red oxide primer, then inner fender and outer wheel well are getting a coating of rubberized undercoating, then will be topcoated with a Black tremclad and hardener.

The fender can then be bolted back on, the next step will be to do my filler work on the outside of the fender, that part I like.

My hands are again full of tiny cuts, infections, and I am having a hard time typing this thread, but at least the worst of this is over.

Doing the rear fenders, has not been my favorite job, it has been very time consuming and labor intensive, ths of course would have been much easier if I had a large media blaster, to blast all the metal for prepping, but no such luck.

I do not have any progress pics, as my wife's camera is not working........................Fred

[Jim Yergin]

That's great Fred. It is always nice when the worst of the job is over.

Jim Yergin

[55 Fargo]

Thanx Jim, the way I look at it is this way, the fenders themselves are kinda beat-up on the rear bottom section, where the bumper hides them and so will some gravel guard before paint. I will smooth them out now with filler, and high build primer.

If down the road I find another decent set of fenders, these can always be swapped out, nice part of the bolt on fenders........

[Young Ed]

Fred am I reading this correctly that you are spraying undercoating and then paint? I thought undercoating was always last.

[Plymouthy Adams]

It is less messy appling undercoating last..but in some sections of the body and upper corners of the fenders..applying the undercoating may be a good idea to get good coverage and then add a cover-up layer for to hde the overspray of final topcoat paint at the very end..

[55 Fargo]

Okay, I am uising paintable rocker guard coating, it dries on the flat side. Infact I have it already sprayed on the body portion , the inner fender is next.

I was thinking I would paint it, with gloss black, is it really not necessary then, should I skip the paint?

[Plymouthy Adams]

do not skip the paint..you could use the Tremclad black here for the inner panels..

[55 Fargo]

Okay, but if I have the rubber rocker gauidrd on over the primer on the body, should I now use the Tremclad over it to seal everything..........Fred ps the fender is still cooking off the primer, I rolled the first coat and sprayed on 2 more coats with the HVLP..........Fred ps Tremclad primer is a lot better to spary than the other Hardware store rust primer I have used in the past

[Plymouthy Adams]

NO..if already undercoated..leave the paint off..just apply another more undrcoating a bit later when this coat has fully set..