For future rust prevention and also to aid in future disassembly, you may want to look into coating everything with Boeshield. It comes highly recommended from a good friend and I intend on using it underneath any vehicle I have that will see salt. It has the side benefit of acting as a penetrating lubricant as well, so it may be helpful down the road when you need to take something else apart.
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Just picked up a 4Th Gen 4Runner...feel like I may have made a mistake.
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For future rust prevention and also to aid in future disassembly, you may want to look into coating everything with Boeshield. It comes highly recommended from a good friend and I intend on using it underneath any vehicle I have that will see salt. It has the side benefit of acting as a penetrating lubricant as well, so it may be helpful down the road when you need to take something else apart.
Thanks, I give everything a coat of anti-seize when I put it back together. For the frame I'll clean up the rust, paint it with good old rustoleum and then I use "Fluid Film" and coat the entire frame on all of my vehicles twice a year. The main heavy coat being right before Winter.
I should be starting my build early next week...I'll let you know how much difficulty I have. I hope it's not a general vehicle problem, but more a function of where the vehicle spent it's life.
Yup, exactly. I bought mine with 275xxx miles last year and it's a NM rig with zero rust. I can only imagine how much rust a Michigan rig must have!!
Yup, exactly. I bought mine with 275xxx miles last year and it's a NM rig with zero rust. I can only imagine how much rust a Michigan rig must have!!
Oddly enough, vehicles from Ohio and New York seem to always be worse. Not sure if its the type of salt or what. BUT, I'll grab a pic of the front skidplate I just pulled off this thing. YIKES!
Oddly enough, vehicles from Ohio and New York seem to always be worse. Not sure if its the type of salt or what. BUT, I'll grab a pic of the front skidplate I just pulled off this thing. YIKES!
Denver rides suffer a similar fate, maybe not as bad as the rust belt. I moved to NM from Chicago and every time I drove my vehicles on the salty roads back there, I couldn't wait to wash the undercarriage. I hate to think what my winter time car wash bill was!!
Denver rides suffer a similar fate, maybe not as bad as the rust belt. I moved to NM from Chicago and every time I drove my vehicles on the salty roads back there, I couldn't wait to wash the undercarriage. I hate to think what my winter time car wash bill was!!
Funny enough I actually lived in Albuquerque for a couple years. In the N.E......up by the Tram.