L Series Rust

dommie13 · Post by **dommie13** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:07 am

Hey, So my brother and I have known for a while that the rust around the windscreen of his L Series has been getting pretty bad, so we decided to do something about it.

Ingredients
Permatex Liquid Metal Filler
A Semi-rough file
Some fairly smooth Wet & Dry
Foam Sanding Block
Touch-up paint Primer
Touch-up Paint
Wax & Grease Remover
Small wire brushes
Masking Tape
Newspaper
Auto silicone
Clean Rags

We ripped all the windscreen trim off, Gave it all the good scrub with some wire brushes, filed all the rust we could off and sanded it all back to bare metal. Cleaned it with the wax and grease remover.

Top Right
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Bottom Left
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Top Left
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Top Center
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Used the Metal Filler to fill in all the holes in stages until they were built up enough. Left it overnight to harden and then filed and sanded until it was level and smooth.

Then cleaned again with wax and grease remover and did 3 coats of touch up primer. After that we did 3 coats of touch up paint.

Now the touch up paint is a little higher than the rest of the paint so it's looking quite strange, to fix this we very lightly sanded it with very wet, very fine wet & dry.

Then we just used the Auto Silicone to fill up any gaps and to seal the windscreen trim back in place.

In the near future this will probably be getting sent to a panel beater to get the rust cut out properly and new metal put in etc etc.

All up it cost about $55 from Super Cheap Auto.

Let me know what you think, please take in mind the pictures make the rust holes seem worse than they are, although they are quite bad.

Cheers

,Dom.

Post by **Captain Obvious** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:44 am

sounds like a good temp fix, only thing is what is undee the screen you cant see!! i wouldnt put off taking it somewhere and getting it fixed!!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:58 am

The sooner that L sees a panel beater to cut the rust out the better! Its only going to get worse from here which could mean increased cost of repair - or even worse too far gone to repair

Cheers

Bennie

twilightprotege · Post by **twilightprotege** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:49 pm

i did very similar to my leone rx recently. i took out my windscreen and really went over everything as much as i could. i also used rust converter to make sure all the rust was gone as much as i could do because even the smallest bit left will grow over time.

i think mine got bad because the little drain holes at the bottom of the windscreen were covered with the silicone holding the windscreen in, thus water was able to just sit there. make sure you clean those out so any water can run away

now for me it's just a matter of getting a new windscreen in!

chubby37 · Post by **chubby37** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:57 pm

the big problem with rust is that were you see it stop is not were you cut it out...you need to go half to an inch past the edge to be sure to get it...its just like removing cancer....and looking at them pics is going to be a big and exspensive job even done now....i would go get fertan rust converter...not cheap by any means but neather is a car...its used by the swiss army to stop rust...i have used and tested it and the results blew me away

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:03 pm

seconds on the ferten excellent stuff used it for years on the slaughter floor of a meatworks (think 80degree water to clean up every day!!!)
and think frog trying to weld while the cleaners were steaming the place up,
electrocuted on a daily basis lol

chubby37 · Post by **chubby37** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:14 pm

lol....that hurts huh

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:18 pm

yeah dont miss that job
happened too many times