Body Work Tutorial

Next up you should always wax and grease remove the panels that you are working on. If you just start sanding away you can actually work contaminants into the sand scratches.. Also coming back to haunt you in the end.

Next step I just took a bit of sand paper and sanded a small spot to see what I was dealing with as far as previous paint work. To my surprise, there was one layer of paint, and one layer of red oxide primer.

Ok, time to strip. I use a 8 inch sander (Mudhog) with 36 grit paper to remove paint and primers to bare metal. Here you can see the paint came off VERY quickly. This is a good sign of very poor adhesion from the past paint work... but I'm not complaining! The faster the better for this old dog.

Once I got to bare metal, I found very small specks of rust, covering the entire panel. This... is not good.:banghead: