White Vinegar Rust Removal On A 1970 Nova 

I use an old bed sheet to soak it down. Works real well and fast and easy.

That’s crazy, I’ve seen guys use it on rusty tools with great results but not body panels, wow!

that's really cool it worked.. when you kept saying it smelled like salad dressing I chuckled inside remembering that smell as a child at my grandmothers house in the bathroom. thank goodness for modern hygiene products.

Good stuff ...I used it myself in a dip tank out of a 50 gallon storage bin. Cracked me up " don't tell I used up the vinegar". Good work.

I'm blown away. If you didn't show this I would not have believed it. Thank you much......

Brother ive heard of white vinegar removing rust...but seeing it in reality makes me believe...Good job there mate and God bless

I tried the white vinegar on a gas tank once, it got a lot of it, but also revealed pinholes. It did work!

Works well, but you do have to neutralize the vinegar with a water and baking soda solution immediately afterwards or you'll get flash rusting again. Nice job.

Great tips BW. Hood looks way better

I use vinegar with salt added. I’ve made baths for parts in large tubs. Even added a bottle of lemon juice which is suppose to add some extra rust eating. Restoring a car where ya think old rusty bolts are gone come back to like new. Great stuff. 🤙🤙 The flash rust waits for no man. 30 minutes tops before neutralizing. I also add baking soda to the water for neutralization.

Vinegar does impressive work as a cleaner. That hood looks really great. Little more work and it will be mint. Be safe and stay well.

nice job worked nice

Naval Jelly with a plastic sheet cover may get the rest of it off. I'm told may have to do it 3 times. Great video !!!!!!!!

Can't believe how good the vinegar worked, I'm going to definitely try that on a few of my projects. Price is right too.

Man this helps so much. I gotta do the roof on my truck and I'm in a little over my skill level. But this will clear that nasty and then I can sand, fill and prime. Thanks BW.

I'm glad that I found your channel. I have been using this for 30 years . Glad to see it is now getting recognition again.

Hey BW. I tried that on my Fargo and got a very stronge craving for some fish and chips 🐟🍟😊. That is looking good BW. I wouldnt drum sand that too much because you will get low stops and they will really show up when painted. What I did was put conditioner on the rust, then dody filed the bad spots and used high-build primer for the little pitting. Mine turned out good. But every job is different. Keep up the great videos Buddy.🍁👍👍

I have used this vinegar for years to clean stuff more people need to know this great video man

Thank you Bryan for making this video. Great content 🏆 Vineger is amazing stuff, works wonders on mould too!

Hey Bryan, Great Low Cost Job - Well done!! As mentioned below by @billysbc118 and others here is that the Baking Soda solution is important to neutralise the microscopic vinegar residues in the grain of the steel. We normally use dilute phosphoric acid solution as it also converts the rust to Iron Phosphate and then follow up by 'passivating' with the Baking Soda solution and a plastic bristle brush with final rinse with lots of water. However I must say after seeing this that ordinary household vinegar cleans off rust way way better than I ever could have imagined!

Chemistry BW! Wow I didn't expect that!

I’ve been eyeing one of those Eastwood sanders for a while. Iam for sure getting one soon now. That vinegar trick worked like a champ though!! I’ll be using that trick on some parts of my car.

Wow! Bryan that was impressive how well that worked! Great job! I really want a cowl induction hood like that for my Nova! 👍

Great Job, I've been told that works but never tried it, awesome will keep it in mind, hopefully my mind will hold out. LOL Tony

Vinegar is amazing stuff and it tastes good on salad. For really rusted stuff you can submerge it and let it soak for a week or two. It'll get all the rust with time.

Hood looks great BW. Good save on the hood. It is hard to believe that someone let it get that bad before you got it, those aren’t cheap hoods . Great video and stay warm. ✌️😎👍

I didn't know vinegar could do that! I'm impressed with the results! 😊👍

Wow! im impressed with the result. im about to get a gallon and get to work!. Thank you for the informative video. Love the Eastwood Contour as well.

It works great I did a hood myself the same way good luck Smitty

Thanks for the demo BW did not know that would work but thinking about it is a acid ! Use the stronger stuff on shingle roof to kill Moss work ok ! Will keep it in mind when need Now hop the manufactures don't hear about this and make the price go way up !! LOL Need these cheap products that are safe to used As everything cost so much ! Windex is good for wiping down surfaces before paint to remove oils from surfaces Cheap prep before paint !

Great video going to try vinegar next time I need to remove some rust from something

Oil and vinegar... 😂 grandpa's ol' salad dressing👌

THANKS BW !!!

Pretty amazing how the vinegar worked. I am trying to find a way to remove surface rust off a vintage painted lamp from the 1950's. I managed to get the lighter stuff (before pitting) off with lite rubbing compound, but there's a few areas where it is more built up and you can feel the raised pitted rust. Not sure if I can use this method as I don't know what the white vinegar would do to the paint underneath. Perhaps if I applied it just on the pitted part with a Q-Tip and was very careful. Any suggestions are welcome. Great job on the hood and nice video. BTW: A good friend of mine used to own a body shop in Red Bank, NJ called Sanford's Auto Body (which was started by his dad). I saw your sign on the wall. Phil

Wow that worked really well brother, good job!

I am super happy for you on the hood BW, vinegar is so amazing, isn’t that how you can also get the patina effect, talk soon BW

Wow this is amazing brother! I cannot believe it worked as well as it did that's incredible! Thank you so much for making this video! You're a godsend God bless you sir

awesome job on the hood it looks amazing

Dude! That was awesome! I gotta try that on something soon, great video 👍✌️

Luv ur sense of humor good video

Thank you for the info. I've been using very expensive acid. I'm going to try vinegar

That vinegar really works great. You can that hood looking better than sand blasting it. Nice Job BW! I don't think it will need much filler at all and you could probably get it out with a few heavy coats of filler primer! Talk to you later buddy!

Hey thanks for sharing Bryan, who knew about white vinegar being autobody related thank you for that, definitely good one to know, Aloha and Hang Loose

Wow BW that’s awesome,you told me you were going to try it and DAM!!!! That’s impressive!!!!! Yep Totally Awesome how it works!!!Better then the old wise tale of Coca Cola for Rusty bolts 😂👍🏻👍🏻

Baking soda really helps in. the water to neutral use it the benefits way out way the smell!

Amazing. You gave me a head start in knowledge thanks 👍❤

Should I spray my atv down with it wait 24 hrs and scrub it down ??

Wow, BW, that worked great . Saved a lot of time on sanding it all. That hood is in decent shape 👌. Are you going to use the metal filler or just regular bondo? And that drum sander did an excellent job 👍Thanks for sharing and stay warm 👍👋💯

I’ve used it to free up stuck engines and it works way better than an internet voodoo concoction of diesel, lacquer thinner, trans fluid. Ot works good for flushing a cooling system

Vinegar that awesome bud, my grandparents would soak there feet in it , don't know what it did but the house smelled good, lol . nice one Man.

Thank you. This is great!

An idea popped in my head about the heavy pitted areas. What if you had a knife sharpening block and rubbed it on the area's where it's worse.? It sharpens knives, it should make those area's smooth as a babies butt! Know what I'm talking about?

well i have some panels from my TR3 that need de-rusting so will give white vinegar a try

Vinegar...is not just for douching. Keeps everyone happy in a marriage.

how you liking that Eastwood Drum sander soo far? I am thinking about getting one of those later on down the Road!!

👍, thanks for the info!

Try using Phospho acid next time. It turns the rust into iron phosphate. What little specs you don't get removed, they will be converted and won't rust anymore. Plus helps against the flash rusting afterwards.

doing this with my old truck 64 chev c10 rust real bad on doors and floor small pin holes wonder if i could stop the rust with this. stuff cheap enough will be able to do so. thank you for vid. also looking for disc brake set up any you guys might have one laying around nice nova.

That's nice to know one a budget, but you can water jet blast it with wet media then wash clean with Vinegar.

At Home Depot there is a stronger vinegar I think it is 60% it"s for industrial use. I use it to kill weeds lol

I soaked a hand full of nuts and bolts in some vinegar for days while I was working on other things. They looked like new after I washed them off.

Nice job brother, that's some good content! ✌

Great, learned a lot Thanks.

You have your Eastwood CONTOUR SCT drum sander front handle on backwards. It's suppose to be leaning forward and not backwards towards you.

That hood is going to turn out nice.

Wow thats awesome

Just put some more vinager on it .and let it soak for a couple of days..just retreat the bad areas

How to remove rust in not reachable areas like inside pillars, doors, rails? Any tips for scrubbing that off?

Fast etch has zinc you leave on it protects until you work on it again. Just re apply with a scotch bright and neutralize agin befor epoxy.

I'll have to try this on my 95 caravan roof

BW, love it. Got to try it.

Try some Maratic acid for the deep pits

Wow! Way cool!

So after you washed it do you hit it with epoxy primer or self etching primer???

I have a rust spot bubbling under my paint in the car door jam. Should i scrape away the paint and then apply vinegar or citric acid? Does it damage surrounding paint? Then after neutralizing what do I coat with oil? Lanolin? Do I prime and paint? Thank you... i have no experience.

You can NOT stop rust once it starts, grinding does not work using rust converter does not work. All these techniques only slow it down. Vinegar and all other acids may remove surface rust but it will always come back. The only way to get rid of it is to cut it out and replace the metal with unoxidized material or replace the panels and seal them to prevent air from coming in contact with the metal.

Well if you've seen a Nova hood removal skip first 5min. At 7min. the vinegar made appearance & was cool & useful T.Y.

We always called it pickling Steele.

BW, did your buddy sell that 55 gasser. I’m interested. Thx.

Bryan did you send that Hood before applying vinegar!

He pulled the vinegar too soon, leave for two days and it would have worked even better getting into all the pitted areas. Works just as good at loose parts soak in a container for two day’s minimum. Cheap and all natural.

Will it remove paint and primer all the way down to metal ?

Use citric acid instead of vinegar. No stink and it is even stronger and faster than vinegar. It is very cheap if you order it from a supplier for the food industry. To get the heavy pitting rust free you have to apply the vinegar or citric acid longer - it can take up to a week if it is really heavy. To speed up the process scrub it with a wire brush daily to remove loosened rust. Don't be afraid that the acid will eat up the good metal. Within a week it will not do much to it being such weak acids.

Use a scotch bright next time and water to get off.

Good stuff man !

Dont you epoxy and then body work? That way it doesnt bubble the paint.

always save ya rags, wash out n hang em up, her indoors will appreciate it, y'all hear mi

Now if you use por 15 metal prep I think it has zinc❤

Brush on a small amount of Muriatic acid on the tough spots. Take it right off.

Fuck dude that eastwood drum tool did a beautiful job on that hood. I'm gonna get the same sct tool and do the same on my rusted hood because mines as bad as yours. Good video bro

I guess the last job will be sand blasting the pits?

Need your help I have 2004 toyota tacoma need chasi rust clean

love the video. hate the "music"

It eats concrete 😢

now get in epoxy prime right away

Good video, high music volume, ugly.....

The music sucks.

i use white vin for all my old motorcycles petrol tanks its the best.

Use Muriatic Acid. 👍👍👍👍👊💥💥💥💥