Isuzu Trooper Owners Club UK™

[chrismcw]

Morning All
                  Frank my trooper has bad rust round the back arch now i have ground it down a few times put on some rust treatment filled it and painted it been good for 3-4 months then the rust has come back again. my question is does any one of any good rust eater stuff i can put on or am i as just as well to bite the bullet and put on wheel arches to cover it.

ideas on a postcard!!!!!  
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           Chris
3.1 swb 1997 trooper (Frank the Tank)
2002 Golf GT TDI

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[Rhanagar]

I have found Kurust to be pretty good. However as always with rust you have to get it back to metal almost before anthing can do much good. Then after that liberal amounts of Kurust, leave it fo a while, then decent primer coats and then paint.. I have also found that grey Zinc primer is a good rust inhibitor as well, as opposed to the normal grey stuff.
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1990 Isuzu Bighorn LWB Mk.I 2.8TD Manual Lotus Edition
1994 Isuzu Bighorn LWB Mk.II 3.1TD Auto Lotus Edition

Deceased
1994 Isuzu Bighorn LWB Mk.II 3.1TD Auto LS

[chrismcw]

spot on cheers for that Rhanagar i will give that a try and see how it goes    
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Cheers
           Chris
3.1 swb 1997 trooper (Frank the Tank)
2002 Golf GT TDI

[Rhanagar]

No probs buddy. I used this method to go from this :



Via this :



To this :




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1990 Isuzu Bighorn LWB Mk.I 2.8TD Manual Lotus Edition
1994 Isuzu Bighorn LWB Mk.II 3.1TD Auto Lotus Edition

Deceased
1994 Isuzu Bighorn LWB Mk.II 3.1TD Auto LS

[Philp]

The best one I've found is Bilt-Hambers Deox-C which is a proper rust remover, it comes as either a powder you mix with water and then soak bits in or a gel you can use on stuff like bodywork, you leave it one 24 hours (maybe under some cling film and then wash it off with water and the rust just washes off.  The follow it up with their Hydrate 80 converter to deal with any that might be left and then some zinc rich primer.

I did these very rusty steel shutters with it.  They were just soaked overnight in it in a container made from a hole dug in my earth cellar floor lined with a sheet of plastic, the a quick scrub with a wire brush and a wash off.  The brown one is before, middle is after de-rusting and the green one painted.


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Phil

96 or is it a 98 Isuzu Bighorn Lotus

[Rhanagar]

[Philp]

I'm sure he can find someone with an outdoor swimming pool ................Maybe thats what Rick Wakeman was doing when he parked his roller in one.......Rock and Roll Baby!
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Phil

96 or is it a 98 Isuzu Bighorn Lotus

[The Laird]

Rick Wakeman?   Kieth Moon surely.

[Philp]

Sorry, I knew it was someone of that era.
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Phil

96 or is it a 98 Isuzu Bighorn Lotus