repost from ck5 about minor rust and some screw holes..

[Dabba]

im looking to buy a m1008 cucv, The truck is pretty rust free except surface rust on the hood and some minor spot in the doorjam. i plan on having someone else repaint the entire truck in carc according to military specs. I dont know the knowlage to paint, but i probably can do the grunt work and get rid of the surface rust. How would i deal with surface rust on the hood? i know i gotta sand but what tools and grit? The spot in the door looks a little deeper than surface but no where near all the way through, is bondo easy to use and sand even? im thinking i can save money by sanding the rust away and just paying someone to paint instead of doing both.

Also, i noticed while looking at it it has a bunch of metal hooks/loops under the top of the bed on the sides of the truck. one every few inches mounted by 2 small screwed. Some of these are rusted and the rust has run onto the carc paint. I dont want to paint over these rusty hooks or leave them how they are. If i remove them im gonna have a bunch of little holes in the side of the truck. How can this be fixed? Can you use bondo in the little holes sand and paint over it? Otherwise i would try to salvage the hooks and paint them too but it doesnt look like thats possible. Any advice? I want this thing looking nice, authentic military. Thankswire brush to the hooks maybe?

 

[Dabba]

no?

 

[mistaken1]

Go to the manuals section and find the ones on painting and touching up.

Wear a respirator as noted in the painting manuals when sanding CARC.

 

[papercu]

Your painter can do light sanding without much trouble IF you want to save money AND if he agrees, offer to do the masking that it the time consuming job that nobody likes to do. Wayne

 

[n1bnc]

Sorry, it had to be done!