Tailgate, P-side door, and hidden surface rust!

Finally! I had lost the pictures of the tailgate rehabilitation. It had big rust holes, several coats of paint, and dented like crazy. I welded up several small replacement panels into the base. sanded all down, beat out a few dents - but gave that up pretty quickly. It is now primed on the outside, and treated and POR 15 on the inside... and Installed! looks great.

Apparently these are hard to come by (and this was a primary reason I bought the donor truck). So glad to have that in place. I will eventually do the entire inside of the bed and tailgate with some kind of duraliner. but for now I know all the rust and old paint are taken care of.

Small progress on the body as well. I further sanded the inside door frame, passenger side door, and the back half of the front fender. Uncovered MORE HOLES in the dang door. So will have to weld them up.

Just how many different mirrors have been mounted to these doors?

Then I tackled the first half of the hood to strip it... And found a archeological dig!

That is, there were at least 7 different layers of paint on top of the factory. It had been skim coated a couple times so it was very thick. They were hiding a dent/kink in the hood. not a big deal (unless you are the one stripping it).

You can see however, I found a bunch of old rust under ALLLL that paint, when I finally got down to base metal.

It is that surface rust from too many years in the sun I think, without paint. No biggie, once all stripped, I will get into the rust and treat and prime.