It has been a long time since I used any Naval Jelly, but if my memory is correct, it didn"t seem to do much to paint, just the unpainted rust areas. If you want to remove the existing paint, you might need to use paint stripper, or probably more practically, have the wheels sandblasted. I would want to have my tires dismounted before I sandblasted them, as there might be rust problems to take care of in the rim area.
It also depends on how important the final finish on the wheels is to you. If you are trying to make it a show winner, you might want to go to a lot more trouble and expense getting the job done compared to what you might do if the tractor is a worker that you want to protect the wheels from further rust.
A few years ago, I had to get new front tires for my Ford 641D, which is a useful worker on my place. While I had the rims bare, I cleaned them up pretty well, did some paint roughening with a coarse Scotch Brite pad, and sprayed the wheels with rattle can primer and rattle can enamel that was approximately the right color. Several years later and hundreds of jobs later, the wheels still look a lot better than they did before I painted them. And the rusted areas have not popped through. Would my tractor win any awards? I doubt it, but since I never take it to shows and don"t really care what it looks like, it doesn"t worry me at all. I do want it to continue to work for me as long as I live.
If you decide to do a "quickie" paint job on your wheels with the tires on, might I suggest carefully masking the rubber areas and cover them well. To me, nothing looks lousier on a tractor than overspray on tires that someone was just too lazy to mask. Paint on tires is not easy to get off once it is on.
Good luck with your N. They are fun tractors that are incredibly easy to get parts for. How good it looks depends somewhat on how hard you want to work and how much money you want to spend getting it that way.
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