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| | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 578 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 578 | What can I do about six little rust holes in my tailgate. Biggest one is about 1/4 inch. Putty? Lead? Fiberglas?
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 46 Member | | Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 46 | Have you clean up the rust with converter and also if you have holes on the other side of that panel could totally be rotted out.
Once you fix that I recommend that you use either metal filler or long strand fiber glass filler.
DUSTY G.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 203 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 203 | Jim, clean off the rust as best you can. Spray the entire tailgate with two coats of Zero Rust. Fill the holes with several thin coats of body filler (sanding between each). Prime and paint. It'll last longer than you will. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 662 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 662 | Use KittyHair or similar shredded fiberglass filler as a base coat and it will be much stronger and is waterproof as well. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | if you can get to the back side, you can fibre glass it, then spot putty the front after sanding, of course, after you rust convert with chemprime or some other phosporic acid treatment.
if the holes are big, sometimes we used screen door mesh to cover the hole.
you can also put sheet metal on inside and then weld/spot up. I am putting patches all over the place on my cab. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 146 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 146 | Mig weld and grind. It will just rust more under the putty.
if it dosen't need fixed, break it
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 33 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 33 | go with the weld repair,especially if you can get at both sides to grind it down and paint | | |
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