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Born To Lose Club
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Location: Calgary, Alberta/Oxenden, Ontario, Great White North
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Paint Bubbles...
Well when I bought my truck, in the lower front door panel there were 2 paint bubbles and I now have noticed the last time I washed the truck that it is starting to ooze rusty colored liquid.
How do I repair or put a temp fix on this? I want to do sumthin before it possbily rots out the bottom of the door. I'm not ready to paint the truck, but that could possbily happen this winter... Any help would be great Thanks Brian ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Brian Smith ![]() 1969 Chevrolet K10 LWB Fleetside - Proud Owner For 20 Yrs - 1 of 208 Built & Sold In Canada! - 283 V8/350TH/NP208, 2" All Spring Lift, 32" Good Year MT/R's. 1972 GMC K2500 Custom LWB Fleetside - Proud Owner For 2 Yrs - 1 of 571 Built & Sold In Canada! - 350 V8/SM465/NP205, 4” Rough Country Lift, 33” Interco TSL Thornbirds 2007.5 GMC Sierra SLE 2500HD 4x4 - Proud Owner For 15 Yrs - 6.6L V8 Duramax Diesel/Allison 1000, 2" Lift, 33" Mickey Thompson MTZ's. 2008 Yamaha Raptor 700r - Proud Owner For 13 Yrs - ITP Mud Lites. 2015 John Deere 1025R - Proud Owner For 6 Yrs - 24HP Diesel/H120/54D/260B/SB1154. |
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Weapons Of Construction
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Colorado, USA
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The first thing you should do is check your drain holes in your doors. Clean 'em out real well, remove the door panel if you have to and shop vac out all the crap. While you're in there, look around for any signs of body work or rust from the inside.
If it was me, I'd think about cutting itty bitty holes in the bottoms of the bubbles to let any water out that may have gotten in there.
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newly minted old timer
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Hudson WI
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i had bubbles in my tool box door. i started to scrape them a bit.....long story short.. the whole bottom of the door was full of rust. im repainting the door now... bubbles= not good.
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Gotta luv a clean shave
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Kent, WA
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If there is a bubble...there is rust underneath. Scrape it off and sand it all down. Once you fix the door drains you will have to take it to bare metal, prime and paint. If it is a small spot you can do a decent repair, feather and buff. When you get around to doing your entire truck it will not have gotten any worse. If you wait until you are going to repaint you might have to reskin the door or even get a new one if the bottom is rusted out.
Even if you shake and spray it...it will be better than letting it go and get worse.
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Welding while you wait...you can help if you like and it...might even save you a little as long as you don't mess things up! We make house calls too...just like the old days! Last edited by progress; 06-25-2003 at 10:32 PM. |
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