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I got the message that POR paints are not well thought of in the forum. that must be why it is not available around here.so moving on- I hope in the next month to get to the point of removing my doors to start cutting out and replacing some rusted spots in the lower corners like I have been on my rear fenders. and while I am in there my thinking is- it should be a good time to replace the window channels. is there anything extremely complicated in that task on a 61 model? thanks. Raymond

If you going to replace metal in the doors just go ahead and strip/gut them and rebuild them. Nothing complicated once you get into them.

well the main place I would use such paint if I locate it is the bed walls where the fenders bolt to them after going over them with a wire wheel. I am not going to blast it. what I can't de-scale and brush down with the wire wheel and have good useable metal will be cut away and new metal welded in anyway but there's a good bit of fairly light pitted area under those spots that I intend to clean the best I can with my power grinder and paint and move on.I have replaced around 1/4 of the length of the flanges on the fenders that are severely rusted, the rest is cleaning up good enough to suit me. I have stated before- I'm not going into this to build a show truck. I am 65 years old and having fun getting it up and running and with the price of gas it won't be a serious daily driver but when I want to roll it out of the shop and work it or get grandkids behind the wheel to learn to drive an honest truck instead of an airconditioned power assisted slushamatic drive it will be there.

That's exactly what I did on my truck bed. And after stripping the rear fenders, doing any patching and metal replacement I used POR15 on the inside only of the fenders. You can mail
order POR15 from the factory here in New Jersey if you like.

www.por15.com