I'm new to the whole bodywork thing so I thought I could cut my teeth by starting with the firewall and inner fenders. I really don't know what I'm doing so any advice this forum would be much appreciated.
I have started by degreasing everything and then used a brass wire wheel to take as much of the rust off as I could and get it down to bare metal. The wire wheel was going really slow so I switched over to an 80 grit sanding disc on my angle grinder. This worked very quickly to take it down to bare metal but I was worried that it was taking too much off and thinning the metal. I did a small section and then decided I would ask some questions before I went any further. Does anyone have any recommendations on sanding material and techniques?
I also have several small dents in the firewall and wasn't sure how difficult it would be to fix.
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