Hey Dana67Dart,
I wish I would have had the option of dipping. It's not available where I live, not even the option to have my car professionally sandblasted!
Here's what I ended up with that was reusable after stripping every area we could access to bare metal. Took weeks to do.
Then, we used a rust encapsulator to treat everything that wasn't accessible.
A hell of a lot of work!!
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