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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Body, Glass & Paint => Topic started by: thirsty on August 12, 2011, 06:39:25 AM
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My question is how do you guys deal with scratches and gouges?
I've been doing some cab corner, rocker, and floor work to my cab getting it ready for paint. My cab has been repainted once before. It was a pretty good paint job but it has some gouges here and there from being a work truck. I feathered a few out but they will need attention. I was thinking that I could hit the spots with high build primer once or twice and block them out before I primed the whole cab. Some spots will be down to the metal and I thought that might be too much to just add primer but not really deep enough for filler.
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You can get some really fine filler. One product I've found is "Stopper" then filler primer. Works a treat ;)
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Any high build urethane primer should bring it back up with 5 or 6 coats. Block it as you said, then reapply several more coats if it wasn't enough. Block it flush with the paint. If the first paint job was a quality one you might not need to prime the whole thing.
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That's what I was hoping to hear Blazin. The paint they put on the cab is bc/cc and is solid.
Blitzer, is that stuff like glazing putty?
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Hi bud, the Stopper mixes the same as normal filler but is more refined. The repairs I've done were normal filler with 40/80 grit to get the shape then the Stopper on that to smooth out the "sanding lines" left by the 80 grit. I used 320 on that then a coat of filler primer (2K) and blocked that down with wet + dry. Done the job for me