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Looks like you are getting through it- lots of work involved! (I am glad I didn't have to pay the guys at the shop to go through all that.) Keep it up!

Paying a shop to do this could become very expensive in a hurry.

A few things to consider. There are shops specializing in trunk lid restoration, the article I read showed a shop doing a similar repair to a Mopar trunk lid, I think the repair came to $1200 dollars. While I don't remember what model was being repaired it was one of the less common models like maybe a Duster, where repair or finding a good core is your only option.

A shop will media blast the lid. This will greatly reduce the time to remove the rust. A shop will probably send the lid out for blasting and get it back a day later. I don't have the option of blasting so I use Naval Jelly, while this is effective, it is very slow.

If you are planning to do this at home it will be very time consuming. For those of you with families it may take you several months of nights/weekends to complete the repair. I generally have 4 days per week to work on this, so I can spend time more time than most of you have. I'm not married or have a family so I don't have a lot of things competing for my time.


Now on to progress pictures.


And the before picture. As you can see it has come a long way.


The edge which was heavily rusted is cleaning up.


The area near the lock cylinder is getting better, but not good enough.


On to more rust treatments.


All I'm trying to say is to carefully consider if repair makes sense. Restorations take long enough without getting bogged down repairing something that should be replaced.