rust repair?

[cmull]

im looking for yalls opinion on if i should bother with the little bit of rust on my truck.. the only places that really has any rust is passenger door, behind the rear wheel wells, and in the bed. still has the original paint that still looks good and has never had any sort of body work before. im trying to keep this truck as original as possible

 

[HotRodPC]

Are you any good with body work? Behind the bed fenders not as bad as yours is where my trucks have a little rust. I will be fixing it. I think as long as I catch it now while it's small, I think I can handle it myself. If I let it go and grow, then maybe not. So yeah, IMO, I think I'd fix it. Maybe not the spot in the bed. I'd probably just break that out and hit with some red liner spray or something so it don't spread and call it good. Or a redneck so good looking patch in the bed wouldn't bother me either. But I think that door and bedsides should be easy enough to deal with.

 

[HotRodPC]

After looking at pics again, your right side (I think this is your right side) is not so bad. That's about how mine are.

 

[GTME94]

Rust never stops and keeps growing. If it was me and I didn't want to do body work and have to repaint I'd try to at least put some rust convertor on the backside to slow down the rust. May not be the perfect solution but would slow it down.

 

[bucket]

Have it fixed. Being that it's all below the trim, the entire panel won't need to be painted so you will still have nearly all original paint. Just have the bad metal cut out and replaced, don't bother doing anything to it if it's just going to have bondo put over it.

 

[89Suburban]

This reminds me of what I went through with the '89.

 

[HotRodPC]

This reminds me of what I went through with the '89.

Phhbbtt !!! WTH you talking about Dawg? You practically rebuilt that whole truck 1 panel at a time. This is just a little fender well rot. Big difference son !!!

 

[89Suburban]

Take a rubber mallet and bang on that quarter panel and see how big the hole gets, lol!!

 

[Old77]

Definitely fix it and stay on top of it. if you don't, it'll just grow and eventually get bad enough that there's no turning back.

 

[HotRodPC]

Just posted in the salvage thread, but if you think your rust is bad....

Here's one that got a lot a little rusty.

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[cmull]

my first truck was an old toyota so needless to say ive had some experience with body work! haha

 

[TheBlueBomber]

Rust never stops and keeps growing. If it was me and I didn't want to do body work and have to repaint I'd try to at least put some rust convertor on the backside to slow down the rust. May not be the perfect solution but would slow it down.

That corner of the bed, eventually would that need a patch?

 

[Old77]

All your rust will eventually need a patch and by patch I mean cutting the rust out and patching in a new, rust free panel.

 

[cmull]

yeah I bought new panels to put in, I'm just waiting for all this rain to go away!!

 

[TheBlueBomber]

yeah I bought new panels to put in, I'm just waiting for all this rain to go away!!

I hear you on the rain part. The thing is I left the toolbox open on my 96 z71 yesterday after I adjusted the carb on the 79. I just went out to lay everything in the sun and guess what. More rain