Rusty Frame Ranger Repair and Paint

Rust-Oleum 6 PK High Performance Black
TotalBoat Rust Primer

[kreidosdaddelt]

Hey, I work as an underbody protection professional in Germany and would like to give you a few tips.
I preserve cars every day and know which products are good and which are not.
First of all, I think it's good that you're doing something at all, but if you have to remove the rust every 2-3 years, at some point there won't be any metal left.
You have to protect the frame, but also the cavity.
Since you already have so much rust, the only thing that will help you is GREASE.
Wax wouldn't help because wax doesn't creep into rust like grease does.
Get “Owatrol oil” and “cavity grease” and then do the following:
As always, you remove rust from the entire frame of the car. Then you degrease everything and spray the entire frame with “Owatrol oil”.
The stuff is the best remedy you can use against rust. Then, when the Owatrol oil has dried, coat the entire frame with Brantho Korrux 3in1, this is a rust protection paint that should be known worldwide and is simply unbeatable in terms of durability. 100x better than POR15.
You inject the cavity with cavity GREASE, important, it MUST be GREASE. If you do it this way, your car will last 100 years.
So buy yourself:
Brantho Korrux 3in1
Owatrol oil
Cavity fat

[kevinadam]

Thanks for the video. It's good to see a properly rusty vehicle getting work done to it. I live in northern Scotland where the roads are saturated in salt for 6 months of the year and I have a 23 year old Fiat Ducato motorhome (RV) van, built in sunny Italy. The rust flakes off the chassis in large plates just like yours does but because I don't have a nice vehicle lift like you do, I have tended to just not look underneath. For the last 10 years. However, the annual inspection (The UK has a fairly strict mandatory annual safety check called the MOT) failed it as some bits had become 'detached'. So I watched your video and here we

[timbenjamin]

Thanks for the vid. I'm doing similar work on an old 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac that I haven't driven much in a few years and discovered a terrible case of rust scale all over the underbody. Frame doesn't have any holes, but parts of the floor pan, inner rockers, and cab supports are rotting away. I only mention this because it got me researching ways to repair it for now, but also how to prevent it. So I have a tip to share: you shouldn't have to grind and re-paint every two years! Get a lanolin-based undercoating spray and apply it after your paint has dried. Not only will it keep the rust out on the exterior, you can spray it inside those enclosed portions of frame rails and between the rockers to keep the water & salt off the metal. Because paint inevitably gets dinged up by road debris. But fluid film, woolwax, and other lanolin-based undercoatings stay fluid and protect the metal after the paint fails.

[shawnlawler]

My Father rest his soul, was taught to weld by his ship building mom. She built ships at the Portland shipyard in WW2. He did a lot of frame work, that looks pretty good in all I've seen. He always talked about not sewing new patches on old wineskins.

[themiddleagedgoodtimers]

My man going ham with the paint! Love that you're involving your son too. Great Video, thanks for sharing.

[wildnature.]

Thank you for the details and explanation where rust this car, I am looking forward to buy one but now I can better check the problematic areas! Nice job!

[michaelwittke]

What I have been using are the POR-15 rust preventative paints. Not inexpensive by any means but for what your doing on the flat bed & frame, it would be a one-&-done deal. I used it when I was in the Coast Guard for painting (at & under the waterline) on ice breakers, a tad bit harsher environment. Their chassy-black is the $h!tz for restorations

[JoshDPREZ]

Thank you for all the information. I’ve got a couple small rust spots on a trailer frame I need to tackle, this went a long way toward how I’ll go about it now. Great video 👍👍

[stevegorkowski]

Great video! I do it much like you but I like OSPHO and then paint and then a rubberizer over that. It may chip a little and I have to redo a few spots but then lay the rubberizer on thick in the spots it chips. The real trick I found is to keep the bottom clean with a pressure washer.
The best paint is frame encapsulation paint and you are not going to chip it. I don't need that level of protection but if you have a classic car it will be worth the money.

[ferndog]

Bro, I love the channel name. I'm a Nintendo Repair/ car strut installer. StarBukz/Dunkin/TimHortons toast to you. - Houston, TX

[muskrat]

I recomend the titan inverter welder from HF. Its has mig/tig/stick/fluxcorr, and can convert to aluminum. Perfect for vehicle repair.

[TinkeredDiesel]

Can’t believe you are trying to salvage this thing

[louis-philipcyr]

Real man weld with no gloves🫶🫶welcome in the club 🤟🤟

[wackywally]

might attempt this because im poor enough that i dont really have another option lol! mechanic told us to just scrap it but vehicle prices are inflating too fast to risk gambling on another used vehicle.

[A_Stereotypical_Heretic]

I like how my truck loses random parts of the rocker panel everyday 😂

[RockBottomGarage]

My dads 97 is rusty underneath. He passed away last year. I’m going to fox this truck. It’s a standard car shortbed. I’m not sure where to look for frame repair material. Also would like to know what frames will swap with it. I’m going to make a hotrod out of it, but keep it nice.

[MustangsTrainsMowers]

What year Ranger is the one in this video? I have 2004, 2009 and 2011 Rangers but the 2004 was in storage from summer 2011 to August 2021 aside from being ran 2x-3x a year up through 2018 when the fuel pump went caput. The 2011 was parked a few times in the last 4 years. I’m in Minnesota and yes they use plenty of salt on the roads here.

[TacticalLulu]

Bro that's hardcore welding overhead with no gloves 😂

[DylanC]

Instead of painting everything take your old motor oil and spray it underneath or paint it on with a brush. Basically diy fluid film. The paint is just sealing in moisture, at best delaying the inevitable. The oil works way better because it repels water, many leaky shitboxes can attest to that

[hhova]

Nice video. I have a my first car that I still have from 18 years ago that the undercarriage has started to rust out. I’ve never welded b4 nor own a welder. Regardless, I’m willing to learn and repair the rocker panels and small areas around the have rusted.
Would you recommend as a first timer and my ambition at hand that I can get away with a cheap harbor freight welder and some steel plates I can order from eBay or something?