John Deere 3020 paint fix

[John L 3020]

Hi, my John Deere 3020 has a few rust spots on the hood. I want to touch them up without having to repaint the entire hood. I heard JD makes a touch up kit, but the paint needs to be classic green since that’s why it’s painted with. Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[Scott 730]

Not sure where the starting and stopping point would be on making that a "touch up" job. It will look worse when you are done. If the battle scars are bothersome, paint the hood complete.

 

[used red MN]

Not sure where the starting and stopping point would be on making that a "touch up" job. It will look worse when you are done. If the battle scars are bothersome, paint the hood complete.

Scott is right, when done it will either look like a halfway job or an all the way job if painted completely.

 

[super99]

If you don't want to paint the whole hood, you might as well get a green magic marker and touch it up, won't look any worse.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Unfortunately, what you have there is no longer "classic green" because it's faded. If you paint just the bad spots with fresh "classic green" paint, you're going to have a bunch of obvious green spots. It'll look like an Irish leopard...

You could get the current color computer matched to get it close, and then blend all the spots out to fool the eye, but by the time you get done blending you may as well paint the whole hood, because blending takes a lot of space. You blend by starting with the paint at full strength on the spot, then thin it with more and more clear, gradually working your way out to the original paint.

 

[showcrop]

putting any paint over rust accelerates the rust because it holds moisture in.

 

[Mcrafty1]

Personally I'd paint the complete hood, or leave it as is until I could.

 

[ss55]

Hi, my John Deere 3020 has a few rust spots on the hood. I want to touch them up without having to repaint the entire hood. I heard JD makes a touch up kit, but the paint needs to be classic green since that’s why it’s painted with. Any tips would be appreciated.View attachment 137522

Is this a replacement hood on a freshly repainted tractor? If not and the rest of the tractor looks similar to the hood I would leave it as-is until the whole tractor can be repainted.

Question: Would wax slow further rust and preserve what is left of the existing paint? Some auctions use diesel fuel to give faded paint some short term luster.

 

[NY 986]

Take the whole hood down to bare clean metal then start fresh.

 

[showcrop]

Is this a replacement hood on a freshly repainted tractor? If not and the rest of the tractor looks similar to the hood I would leave it as-is until the whole tractor can be repainted.

Question: Would wax slow further rust and preserve what is left of the existing paint? Some auctions use diesel fuel to give faded paint some short term luster.

wax would not help. The cure is rust converter used as directed.

 

[John L 3020]

Is this a replacement hood on a freshly repainted tractor? If not and the rest of the tractor looks similar to the hood I would leave it as-is until the whole tractor can be repainted.

Question: Would wax slow further rust and preserve what is left of the existing paint? Some auctions use diesel fuel to give faded paint some short term luster.

No, the hood is original and is painted the same as the rest of the tractor.

 

[John L 3020]

Thanks for your responses! I think the best move is to let it be for now until I decide to repaint everything.

 

[showcrop]

Thanks for your responses! I think the best move is to let it be for now until I decide to repaint everything.

an application of rust converter would prevent it from getting worse before you can get to it.