[Gregski]

so first up was the upper grill panel I want to show you the phases I went through in order to get it ready for primer / paint

now I aint saying I'm and expert an this is how you do it, I just want to share what happened with you

Pic 1 - original part simply removed off the truck

Pic 2 - soaked in acid overnight (some lose paint, some rust came off)

Pic 3 - giving the acid a hand by wire wheeling the rust and paint off (though the part looks shinny there is still rust in the impossible to reach areas and in the pitted metal) so back to the acid bath it went

Pic 4 - this is the interesting part, I think some call this phenomenon pickeling, the left side of the panel was soaked in acid overnight and after washing off the acid with water it turns that yellowish haze and starts to surface rust (the right side was not dipped in acid)

Pic 5 - after the entire piece was soaked in acid and washed off with a garden hose and left to air dry, this is about 2 hours later, looks like a step backwards, but this is all just surface rust and comes off easily with a wire wheel

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