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It turns out the leaky sealant in the drip rail was also the only thing holding the roof skin to the vehicle.
With the drip rails clear, lifted the the roof to treat the otherwise inaccessible rust.

Plenty of rusty flakes


A section cleaned up with a wire wheel. Thankfully the structural areas were still sound.


Here is the roof and drip channel ready to be made into a POR-15 sandwich

With everything done, rusty roof areas were:
wire brushed
vacuumed
degreased with simple green
rinsed,
treated with POR-15 metal prep or Ospho.
rinsed again
left to dry
drip channel painted with POR-15
roof skin refitted
painted top of roof flange with POR-15
sealed with a good quality seam sealer.

More updates

Here's the roof in primer. Cleaned up the paint some too.

Welcome. Keep posting pictures of the progress.

Keep the pics comming!

Coming along pretty nice. Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

Can't wait to get off work and check out the pics. Lots of stuff gets blocked at work.

Welcome from N.Y.C.....Wow air conditioned seats!

Looking good. I will keep an eye out for some seats for you.

love reading about the projects, its getting me in the mood to start on mine.