OK Guy/Gals... I'm a technician by trade not a body man so excuse me for asking silly questions. I've got a 69 GTO as seen in the garage section...Currently I have the body off the frame and in process of repairing / replacing parts on the chassis. The body is outside under a tarp. In reading alot of different post here, and other places, as I am on one stage of a rebuild my mind is on some of the details of the next stage and preparing for it. So here is my problem...My GTO has multiple problem areas, it was a junkyard save. The trunk pans need to be replaced as do the floor pans, lower lip of the windshield seat left front cowl panel ect. It has rust on the roof, inside under the dash, around, under, and in-between everything. I have asked my local bodyshops, looked in the phone book, internet searches ect looking for a shop to sand, media, soda blast the body...I have found nobody within a reasonable distance that would do it. So I need to learn to do it myself. I read posts about all of the above methods of cleaning the body and different ways to "seal" , "encapsulate", the rust but it seems that the more I read the more opinions I see...Soda blasting being good because it is biodegradable. Media blasting because it is less harsh on a metal panel. Sand because it is the best wat to remove visible rust. Acid dip is the best to remove all of the rust in all areas... Then to top it all off I get confused between "etching primer", "epoxy primer", and the gambit of other products...Eastwood, POR-15, PPG DTR90... Is there a central location any where that has reference information for this confusion? An example of my confusion...My roof has what I concider moderate rust. It is pitted. If I were to soda/media blast it, it wont take the rust to bare metal so I would need to sand blast it. After sand blasting I would need to either etch prime or Eastwood coat it to seal it from rusting again 5 years down the road, but being pitted I would think it needs to be filled and from what I read bondo/body filler adhears best to bare metal. I understand that most of the repair panels I will use are e-coated but that it needs to be removed for some primers/coatings to be effective...Which means blasting it again and re-etching/coating??!! I am truly at a loss. Are there any instructions ya'll have. My wife says they better have real good pictures...
