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Originally Posted by lupo
It looks like you're in pretty good shape. There are Coatings designed for marginally prepared surfaces. Permanent rust sealer[ aluminum pigmented] is used on Bridges and has a 20-year service life. Clean it up best you can make sure you put a second coat of the Permanent rust sealer on it and then any kind of black topcoat you'd like over it.
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Cool. That makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Dr Jekyll
Welcome to 70 LWB club!!!
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Yes my brother! Love me the long bed and you're right on about getting supplies in it. It's what a truck is for!
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Originally Posted by Dr Jekyll
As for going to bare metal. If the DA is taking the paint off easy, its flaking off, or not feathering on the edges, then I would take down to bare metal, as that is a sign of bad adhesion.
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Great. I can definitely tell where it's sticking and where it isn't. That's going to be my plan.
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Originally Posted by Dr Jekyll
Get some sheet metal from HD or Lowes and practice your welds. Spot welds and butt welds are the most common. I like to test my practice pieces by taking them back apart. Your screw ups can be great learning experiences, not that your going to have any of those, right. 
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Will do on the sheet metal. Definitely gonna be screw ups! I'm going with a non-metallic light gray.
Thought of a few more questions:
On the inside of these pieces should I use something like CLR to get as much rust out as possible? Seems like sanding in there is going to be...ah...challenging. Or should I just do like lupo said and use a rusty metal primer in there without doing much?
Then once I have the insides cleaned up and primed I guess I'm going to top coat that with something other than my actual color for the rest of the truck. Maybe a low gloss black something? Suggestions?