Painting Rust and Stone Chips

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My summer project is to remove the little rust that the 80 has; inner front fender, rocker pannel, tailgate, driver door jam

The hood has lots of stone damage.

If I repaint the hood with clear coat paint can I clear coat the rest to the vehicle after I wet sand off all the scraches in the clear coat?

I like Emron paint. Should I stick with it? What about primer?

Other than the hood, the rest of the vehicle doesn't need painting at this time so I can't paint it orange, green and yellow camo at this time :D
 
IIRC Imron is a single stage paint.

Paging fAvE............help us out here.
 
Emron 6000 is a clear coat paint and very $$$$.
The parts store is now stocking Nisson paint but can get Emron 6000.
 
You can clear over the rest of it but pretty much gaurenteed to peel back in 2-3 years. you really need to strip complete panels and seal the panel then base color and then clear for integrity to the paint. If you were on the left coast I could hook you up but on the rt coast you pretty much SOL. I have not used the emron stuff but some brilliant person tried to reclear the hood on my truck probably right before I bought it. its all peeling off now and needs to be repainted.
figure out what you would spend in materials on paint. then go get a quote form a body shop to refinish only. should be about 3.1 hours of paint and 1.4 of clear. so for 4.5 hrs plus whatever paint and materials (usually the paint and clear time x $21.00) so for right around $300 they would shoot it for you. you could do the prep work as far as smoothing out the stone ships and such to keep the cost down but it depends on what you can get hte shop to commit to. remember that there is no set rate for body work let them give you the estimate and then ask them if they can reduce the hourly rate by a buck or two. they might not but as long as you are asking nicely its not a big deal.
I doubt you will have great success long term with anything you shoot over old paint.
Dave
 

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