Re: Front bumper on '97 Dak rusting

From: Tony Troidl (ttroidl@bluefrognet.net)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 00:01:37 EST


Yeah, I did clean it, I ground it down to bare metal, but now it's getting
chipped by stones and gonna rust again! oh well, What about that black
chipguard stuff? wonder if that would work?

Tony.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Levy <andylevy@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Front bumper on '97 Dak rusting

> Yeah, it's fairly common. Herculiner works nice from what I hear. The
important
> thing to remember is to clean off ALL the rust spots and get them down to
bare,
> clean metal.
>
> ttroidl@bluefrognet.net wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else had problems with the painted bumpers rusting?
> >
> > Had it repainted by the dealer 2 years ago, looked like crap, huge
bubbles of
> > paint and rust everywhere...
> >
> > Last month when I was rebuilding the engine I pulled it and repainted it
with
> > the best rustolem wrinkle finish paint I could find, and I just noticed
afew
> > days ago that it is already full of chips from stones or whatever!
> >
> > Other than A bra has anyone got any ideas???
> >
> > or has anyone got a deal on a Bra (for the truck!)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tony.
>
>



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