I bought one off of Craigslist one night and that was a mistake. I couldn’t see what it really was, a disaster. So currently it is completely disassembled, wheels broke down, frame at powder coating, ect.

Today I pulled the forks apart to find a fair amount of rust on the fork piston rods. Should I just clean them and move on or put some kind of finish on the piston rods, like POR15, or gun bluing?