In areas where rust is a problem the bigger armor can hold mud and salt behind it and cause the housing to rust and leak.
Not if you paint the
![Pokinit :pokinit:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/pokinit.gif)
out of it. Remove the little white insert on the spray can button insert the red stray you get from wd40. Presto, paint in all the hard to get places.