Hey Guys, been alittle while since I posted, My Diesel SEC project has been pushed to the back burner for alittle while. I am currently restoring a toyota Landcruiser, once thats done ill try to finish the SEC up and post the pics.

As to the purpose of this thread, I live in canada, and I come upon rusty mercedes all the time, often I part them out, but sometimes a mildy rusty car can make a great daily driver for a year or 2. So If you know that you only plan on keeping the car for a year or 2, why spend $2000 on a paint job. With that logic in mind I decided the $500 macco paint job was to much as well.

The car: 1984 300 D, 300K miles, Rust on body, solid underbody and floor, the owner, my brother, purchased for $600.

The problem: How to do a paint job, for almost nothing. To keep the car looking good for another 2 years.

The solution: Tremclad paint, (sold as rustoleum in USA)

The process, Remove all rust using flap disc, and rust scraper, passivate rust with chemical converter, cover with tremclad rust primer, mask and spray using thinned tremclad paint.

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1984 Euro 300SDC, (4spd standard)
1986 Toyota Landcruiser Diesel HJ60 5spd X2

Gone but not forgotten (some sold, some stripped)
1983 300 SD, 1985 300 SD, 1983 240D, 1986 300 SDL, 1985 300 SDL, 1983 300 D, 1984 300 D, 1985 300SD, 1987 300 SDL, 1983 300 SD, 1985 300 TD Euro, 1983 380SEC, 1990 300 D, 1987 300D, 1982 300D, 1982 300D, 1994 E420, 1987 300 TD, 1987 300 D, 1984 300 D