New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine.

[Hay Dude]

I spent the money and got the big heavy duty frost free outdoor mixing valve and I love it.
You will spend a little more for heating the hot water, but the cost of rust is terrible.

 

[ponytug]

FWIW: More chemistry...
Brines used for deicing are often based on magnesium salts that are less corrosive to metals than sodium chloride (table salt).

I think that brine composition is often very local, as brines are often byproducts from other manufacturing processes, and the ingredients/composition varies a great deal. Depending on the location, some agricultural processes create magnesium rich non-chloride brines that work well for deicing asphalt and unimproved roads. Magnesium is supposedly hard on concrete, purportedly causing a decomposition reaction in concrete, and causing spalling.

All the best,

Peter

 

[mrmikey]

Brine is simply salt in water, which is exactly what you have after rock salt has been pulverized by tires and mixed with snow. The beauty of brine is that they can cover the road surface with a small fraction of the amount of salt required, when distributing it in the form of rock salt, as so much of the rock salt ends up in the ditches on either side of the road.

You're for sure correct it's salt and water but I think that the maximum saturation percentage for manufactured brine is 22% (don't quote me on that number) before it drops out of suspension. I would assume the mixture made by driving over wet salt is less....possibly, dunno just guessing.
You're right a lot of salt ends up in the ditches that's why the spreading systems now prewet the salt as it's spread so it's sticky and doesn't bounce into the ditch, that kind of a system I can see.
The spreader controls around here now are digital and controlled so you get a set rate (don't ask me what that rate would be) at so many KG per road meter. The older mechanical systems were controlled manually by the operator, "yeah that looks right" so it'd be like driving on a gravel road after the salt truck went by. A good thing about the newer controls is the spread pattern is able to be directed better. If same truck is on a two lane road as opposed to a 4 lane, you can direct the spread pattern so it's more directed to the left missing the ditch.

Brines used for deicing are often based on magnesium salts that are less corrosive to metals than sodium chloride (table salt).

Around here it's the same salt they use for spreading.

 

[WinterDeere]

Our rock salt trucks have a bad habit of leaving piles of the stuff at intersections, where they stop and raise the dump truck bed to shift the stuff to the spreader in the rear. Each pile might be 200 - 400 pounds, just left sitting there, 4" - 6" deep and covering an area half the size of a parking space.

The way they pile the stuff onto the roads, sometimes as deep as the snow it's supposedly protecting us from, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the salt company is sending some mighty nice gifts to whomever makes the decisions on where and how much salt to purchase each year.

 

[B7510HSD]

Coobie does this road salt stuff affect the new Hurricane engine? Boy this thread went off the rails quick.

 

[WinterDeere]

Coobie does this road salt stuff affect the new Hurricane engine? Boy this thread went off the rails quick.

??? Not off the rails at all, when you follow the thread. Most here are replacing their trucks due to rust, caused by road salt, more than any other cause.

I can almost guarantee you that when I'm forced to replace my 5.7L Hemi with a Hurricane, it will be because road salt rusted thru my current truck body.

 

[B7510HSD]

??? Not off the rails at all, when you follow the thread. Most here are replacing their trucks due to rust, caused by road salt, more than any other cause.

I can almost guarantee you that when I'm forced to replace my 5.7L Hemi with a Hurricane, it will be because road salt rusted thru my current truck body.

He asked this nothing about your trucks rusting?"Any opinions on the new 2025 Ram 1500 with the standard hurricane inline 6cly.with twin turbos?I currently have a 2022 Ram 1500 with the 5.7 hemi.Thinking about trading up to a 2025."

 

[coobie]

??? Not off the rails at all, when you follow the thread. Most here are replacing their trucks due to rust, caused by road salt, more than any other cause.

I can almost guarantee you that when I'm forced to replace my 5.7L Hemi with a Hurricane, it will be because road salt rusted thru my current truck body.

Rust proofing is your friend.

 

[WinterDeere]

He asked this nothing about your trucks rusting?"Any opinions on the new 2025 Ram 1500 with the standard hurricane inline 6cly.with twin turbos?I currently have a 2022 Ram 1500 with the 5.7 hemi.Thinking about trading up to a 2025."

OP already bought the truck, more than two weeks and 20 pages ago, so that request was satisfied. OP was talking about rust proofing by page 21, post #213. So now you're telling him what he can discuss, on his own thread?

Perfect timing on posting about rust proofing again just now, coobie.

No one is forcing you to read any of this, nor did anyone elect you to police everyone else on the forum.

 

[coobie]

He asked this nothing about your trucks rusting?"Any opinions on the new 2025 Ram 1500 with the standard hurricane inline 6cly.with twin turbos?I currently have a 2022 Ram 1500 with the 5.7 hemi.Thinking about trading up to a 2025."

Traded my 2022 Ram 1500 longhorn 5.7 hemi for a 2025 Laramie 1500 with the hurricane standard output 420 HP.My first 1,000 miles and the mileage is 4 MPG better than the 5.7 hemi a lot quicker engine response HP wise.Time will tell on the durability part of the engine.