joney
Elite Explorer
- Joined
- March 23, 2021
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- City, State
- Eau Claire WI
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1998 Explorer XLT4x4 SOHC
Continuing on my belated winterizing project: Rust repair. Waiting on rocker panels from LMC, got 4 holes repaired, going to do the inner panel patches and lower door panels with rivets and sheet metal with panel cement, Rust Converter, bondo and paint. Hope to get the whole thing Fluid Filmed afterward. Still have to do a coolant flush and oil change. Rust is like an iceberg! Upon removing my lower trim panels I found out the extent. Still, the frame and underneath minimal rust for age and location. When the city gets around to it, that winter brine solution they spray is death on vehicle metals - 5 years of it killed my otherwise trouble-free Taurus early spring. Determined to fight it off this go around! Funny thing, only the back left door sill and the lower doors have rust - front doors are fine. Thanks to this forum, getting much more DIY experience. Although I've been patching car sheet metal since the mid 80s. Fabricated the whole trunk interior for my 82 Crown Vic back then. Fun challenge!