So you are kind of missing the point. There where sections that I did touch up with a rust converter and paint, but the frame is a box frame and much of it had the original paint on it including inside the box. A substantial amount of the rot occurred inside the box and rotted through to the...
So just to give a little comparison here are a few photos for your consideration:
This is the underside of my 91 Suburban, what I would expect to see for a 23 year old vehicle.
Here is my 2001 Sienna:
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The frame has not failed to the extent that it has bent, or like a ship broken it's back. There are sections along the bottom of the frame where I can push my fingers through the painted surface and it is rotted through on both sides so it has lost the strength of the primary frame c channel as...
Welcome to the joy and agony of owning a 4runner. Painting over the rust is like painting over cancer. I have a 2000 SR5 that I tried painting over the rust, and the frame just rusted from the inside out, and only has 120k on it. Oh what a feeling! I was hoping that this was going to be a...
