surface rust treatment

[flygt4]

I'm picking up a new ute this weekend but I know it has a couple of things I need to sort out. first item is the chassis rails have a light coating of surface rust , and is just starting to flake . Its been on a hoist and its appears to be just on the surface, I'm guessing its from rocks and gravel etc so I just need to clean it up well enough to get a couple of years out of it.

here what I had in mind, please correct/confirm if I'm on the right track.

-strip affected areas with wire wheel, clean and sand
-coat rails in POR15 rust preventive paint
-coat rails in POR15 chassiscote

have I missed anything?

[Leon]

buy banjo

[Mr Revhead]

and fluffy dice


yeah POR15 is good, use the metal ready and rust kill stuff first it the situation needs it

[B1NZ]

You could just wire brush/wheel off the worst parts of rust and then buy some hammerite or similar paint, paints straight over rust and is self priming, anywhere between $30-$50 a can from Bunnings/mitre 10 etc....

[flygt4]

hoping to fit token gun rack and dog cages soon after pickup

ahh yep metal ready i was missing. I'm just gonna hammer it so it doesnt reappear and raise any wof eyebrows. passed a VTNZ wof a couple of weeks ago though.

I think it would be a waste to pull the clutch without celebrating with a suitable burnout first too.

[Adoom]

Pump a shitload of fisholene inside the rails after the por15 is dry. Just to get any bits you missed.
Using a paraffin gun on a compressor filled with fisholene is the way to go. Got to be better than buying five thousand fisholene aerosol cans!!!

[Bling]

I would just use POR15, its best to topcoat it if its going to be in the sun all the time, but for under a car I wouldn't bother top coating. The sun doesn't actually affect the paints performance, only looks, goes slightly milky. Though I painted the floor in my starlet with it and due to it not being in sunlight all the time it never looked anything but new.

As well as Adooms advice