well decided to go ahead and start my body work. I havent gotten my taxes back, but i spent $20 bucks for sandpaper, black primer, and Rust-o-leum Bedliner spray.....well heres how it looks



Start








Some Body Work







Finish













Im currently working on pass. side doing the sheet metal, which should be done tomorrow if i can get to it....but let me know what you think....all this has been done with less that $50.....

 

Can't beat it for the price.

Certainly a hell of a lot better than rust holes.

 

BTW, im going to paint the WHOLE truck like that, due to my roof being compltely chipped, hood is starting to chip up, so im going to do the whole thing like that.

Ive taken it off-roading twice, and have rubbed sticks, branches etc, and the stuff doesnt chip....granted i put 2 coats of primer, and 3 light coats of the bedliner.

Also the front fender is uneven in the door corner due to rust. It was bubbling through the paint right there, so i sanded the whole corner.

 

Looks different! I like the look of the rugged lower liner on your blue and it looks soooo much better than the rust build up in the lower panels!

 

Thats one way to fix the rust. lol. Nice work so far.

 

it looks better than it did when you started out but the next time you see rust it may not be possible to fix.

 

first pic horrible rust, sec pic ehhh you do what you gotta do with what you have, last pic looks 2x better than it started out.

 

Thats not a bad solution to that problem. There really wasn't much else you could do without spending serious $$.

 

looks good man, i think the truck will look good all black

 

if you have tools to do the work or know someone that will lend you the tools to do the job it can be fairly cheap. between my dad and i we have all the tools to do body work fairly cheap. this summer is going to be interesting and full of body work between my 2 dodges and my dads ford. the only thing that suck is that i live in town and don't have a garage so i can't paint the trucks in the front yard.