Rusty Rallies

[TravisB]

Looking for some advice on a rust converting primer for some rallies.

The one on the left has been ran through a steel shot machine and I want to keep the rust from getting worse and paint them silver again.

What should I get to stop the rust and accept paint over it?

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[82sbshortbed]

I sand blasted mine and painted with rustoleum primer and black paint. Came out nice and i don't think they will rust again.

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[Camar068]

Ospho after brushing/scuffing them smooth. Or you can try naval jelly.

 

[TravisB]

Well, they didn't get perfect but cleaned up pretty good and have them in primer now.

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[Best truck design]

Well, they didn't get perfect but cleaned up pretty good and have them in primer now.

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Those are a great looking wheel

 

[KilgoreTrout]

So what did you do to them?

 

[TravisB]

So what did you do to them?

Before they were primed we ran them in a steel shot machine. It's a machine with a basket that rolls like a rotisserie inside a machine that fires steel shot around in there. Sort of like a sand blaster but instead of sand or whatever it uses steel shot like what you have in a shotgun shell. He has a starter and alternator rebuilding business and has that tool at his disposal. We tried sand/crushed glass in a cabinet blaster but it wasn't cutting it.

It broke off most the big stuff but the rust damage is still visible up close. I looked all over locally for argent silver and didn't find any. I tried a wheel paint in the color "steel" but I think it's too silver.

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[KilgoreTrout]

Before they were primed we ran them in a steel shot machine. It's a machine with a basket that rolls like a rotisserie inside a machine that fires steel shot around in there. Sort of like a sand blaster but instead of sand or whatever it uses steel shot like what you have in a shotgun shell. He has a starter and alternator rebuilding business and has that tool at his disposal. We tried sand/crushed glass in a cabinet blaster but it wasn't cutting it.

It broke off most the big stuff but the rust damage is still visible up close. I looked all over locally for argent silver and didn't find any. I tried a wheel paint in the color "steel" but I think it's too silver.

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10-4. That's pretty cool.
I was just looking at options for mine. I dont think, for me, that's one of my options. Ha..

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[TravisB]

10-4. That's pretty cool.
I was just looking at options for mine. I dont think, for me, that's one of my options. Ha..

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They are by no means perfect and the pics make them look better than they are. The sand blaster was doing a better job of it but it was so time consuming and required someone to actively be spraying them with sand. The shot machine had a timer so we just tossed them in there one at a time and set it to tumble for a while.

 

[fried_daddy]

Nice that you get to use a sandblaster!! I have two of mines stripped down and primered and I'm currently working on the other two. This is doing it by hand with a drill and abrasive wheels. Hope it comes out good with all this labor.