Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies

   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #52  
I keep seeing “aluminum corrodes like steel”. Yes it can corrode but nothing at all like steel.
No indeed, only aluminium can fully deteriorate intercrystalline in e.g.ammonia environments and then fracture brittle without warning.

If aluminium isnt anodized it still oxidises.
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #53  
I keep seeing “aluminum corrodes like steel”. Yes it can corrode but nothing at all like steel.
In my reasoning to buy an aluminum Ford is the body panels. Rinsing (washing) the deep dark recesses where the salt fog is created @ about 35-40 mph throughout the various hidden areas and especially all the seams and spot welded miscellaneous support "channels" is impractical during the winter months.
The frame and axles are pretty well cleaned with an "underbody" option at the car wash and not very difficult with a garden hose.
I do have a lift and fluid film all my stuff. It works well as my 2012 Taco is proof.
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #54  
I disagree. It is not about "back then", it is where you live. Try the desert southwest, they live forever.

1974 F-350, 1991 Dodge D-250 and 2001 Dodge 2500, still on the road.

Does this 1975 F-250 sled puller look and sound like junk?


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Is that sledder stock? Somehow I highly doubt it. Location had nothing to do with his PW needing the front end rebuilt at Twelve Thousand miles.
Back then, 100,000 miles was considered high mileage. Now it might be time for a tune-up.
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #55  
Rinsing (washing) the deep dark recesses where the salt fog is created @ about 35-40 mph throughout the various hidden areas and especially all the seams and spot welded miscellaneous support "channels" is impractical during the winter months.
It may be impractical, but after going to the parts of Colorado that uses magnesium chloride instead of salt, a cleansing of the undercarriage follows. Both on the Ram and trailer.
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   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #56  
^^^^
It doesn't seem impractical to me, if it means that the body lasts longer. That truck wasn't cheap and I'll bet that they didn't give you the trailer, either.
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #57  
I have no means to pick mine up for a deicer removal douche but I do have an angled fitting on my PW wand that I can get under them with and wash them off, which I do regularly.
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #58  
I keep seeing “aluminum corrodes like steel”. Yes it can corrode but nothing at all like steel.
I have several 1990's Volvos without rust on the aluminum fenders, hoods and trunk lids/tailgates. One of them (1993) has some corrosion on the tailgate that I am told was caused by a poor ground from the tailgate to the steel body. Corrosion, but not even close to perforation.
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #59  
It's 15 degrees out right now and the next few days are going to be cold, but I got in tonight after driving through 200 miles of salted roads and would really like to wash my truck off. So I envy those of you who are set up for it. Maybe next year...
 
   / Aluminum vs Steel truck bodies #60  
It's 15 degrees out right now and the next few days are going to be cold, but I got in tonight after driving through 200 miles of salted roads and would really like to wash my truck off. So I envy those of you who are set up for it. Maybe next year...
Most automatic car washes around here are touchless pressure washer gantries, and all offer quantity discounts, either buying in bulk or monthly plans. Back when I was passing one of them every day, I would try to get each car there after each weather event, but I don't travel that route anymore.
 

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