[Gregski]

so with the truck running and my monthly truck funds depleated I decided to take a little break from the mechanical combabulation and do some body work, I wanted to take the grill down to bare metal and just clear coat it for that industrial look, but decided against it when the first part turned out too gun metal gray instead of nice and bright and shinny, plus I didn't think the clear coat on bare metal was going to protect it from rusting as well as it should

so I used some Home Depot phosphoric acid (which in California you could actually drink, it's so weak, though I don't recommend it) to get rid of the rust, mostly on the back side in the hard to reach places, then I hosed the pieces down with water, and bathed them in baking soda water to neutralize the acid, and then wire wheeled the white powder off of them, turned out decent, and then I primered them with some RUSTY METAL PRIMER?

but boy I did not realize how mangled this grill really was till I took it off