He sends me emails occasionally showing me some of the things he fixes. Sometimes in Minus Degree Weather, in the mud, in his driveway, on his brother’s farm and in his garage.
What he has done sometimes makes me look like I would like to have been a mechanic once.
I am not exaggerating even a little bit.
The man amazes me.
Because he is in New York state somewhere, he is very familiar with rusted out rigs because of the salt they use on the roads and he has performed some small miracles on his own rigs but this one in the video I’m afraid is so far gone that I am surprised it hasn’t literally broken in half yet.
It should scare you that there are vehicles out on the roads in this condition.
I dilute some Fluid Film in Mineral Oil and spray the entirety of my undercarriage and can confirm no rust. I do this every three yrs or so. I get an gal of FF for about an hundy!
Interesting application. Didn’t know Fluid Film could be mixed with mineral oil. What are you using to spray it, a pump up garden type sprayer, or a paint rig? I might look at doing that on my daily drivers to retard the formation of rust.
I would use a paint gun off my compressor and do it annually on my plow trucks when I lived on the east coast. The salt was bad enough. Then they started pretreating the roads by spraying calcium ahead of the snow storms. You would see vehicles totally rusted out before the owners got through their 60 months of payments after they started using that stuff. Some municipalities were experimenting with sugar beet juice around the time I left there. I’m not sure what the outcome was with that.
Thanks for the input. Beet juice is still used as an additive by some areas near me as part of the road pretreat program ahead of winter storms. Not sure if it’s particularly harmful (as is liquid calcium spray and road salt).
Garden sprayer, keep it shook up!
Ratios?
3:1 oil/FF
Oh, yeah……
We had a couple of cars like that come into the shop.
We refused to work on them……
Damn it that’snotrust !
,it’s called “patina”
I call it uncontrolled delamination.
NRTS (if you know, you know)
The guy I work with wanted me to look at a Honda CRV to see if there was anything I could do with it. It looked almost that bad. The control arms were almost Blue Tooth. Told him it wasn’t worth fixing and they scraped it.
Corrosion kills more cars up here faster than they can wear out.
Today wasn’t too bad. It was almost 35F in the pole barn as I changed the radiator and water pump on an 2003 Excursion, with a 6.0 Powerstroke. What a clusterfuck the fan shroud is on that thing. Took more time pulling that off than removing the radiator and the pump. While we were in there, the tensioner assembly and all the pulleys were swapped out. Should have gotten a fan clutch assembly because while running it to circulate coolant, the electric clutch hub was making a horrible rattling. Guess that will have to wait until next weekend.
It never ends…..
Thanks for the kind words Phil.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Local ‘indigenous’ motorists: “Pfftt, them whitefellas will throw anything away. Lookit this car that Leigh and his mates dumped, it’s still got four wheels, a windscreen, and the petrol tank doesn’t even leak yet!”
Pimp my ride, baby!!
Used motor oil and chainsaw bar lube.
Conventional motor oil not synthetic.
Ratio is 2 parts oil to one part bar lube.
Use in a auto paint sprayer with a pressure setting
of 100 to 120 psi.
Why bar lube? Because of its tackiness.
Been doing this for 25 plus years on all my vehicles.
My daily winter time driver is a 1992 Ford Explorer that I
ordered from the factory. 360,000 plus miles with no
rust.
Given that I live in Maine, I can say that this treatment holds up
well to salt treated roads.
Around 1973 while living in Rochester NY, someone gave me a 62 Ford Falcon on the condition I would get it out of their basement. Basement was bare earth floor. A battery and complete set of new brake lines got it moving (yeah I was a shade tree mechanic out of necessity). Slamming the door or trunk lid would leave a rust chip pattern on the ground pretty much outlining the car, chose not to look at that too close but it was the inside of all the sheet metal rusting in layers, apparently that Ford had been painted only on the outside, drove if for almost a year until the muffler pipe sheared and pole vaulted the rear end 2 ft in the air (but it kept on running just fine). Patched the exhaust pipe and kept on going. Someone offered me $100 for it (pretty much my sunk cost of battery and parts), so I sold it telling them to NOT TOUCH ANYTHING under the car, just drive it as is. The idiot decided he wanted to put in a new trans filter and fluid (it was shifting just fine), and proceeded to shear off almost all the bolts holding the pan. Came back all pissed off,told him to recall clearly what I had told him….. some people just do not listen.