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[3930dave]

I'm still driving my 1991 F-250.

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A lot of 10 y/o trucks around here don't look anywhere near that good !

Rgds, D.

 

[DK35vince]

A lot of 10 y/o trucks around here don't look anywhere near that good !

Rgds, D.

Thank you.
I spray under the truck with oil every year (for the past 20 years that I have owned it).
Still in great shape. No rust and it runs in the salt and calcium they put on our roads in the winter.

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

Vince, what type of oil do you use? I've been wanting to have this done on my 2015 3500 but they charge like $700 but the salts here really ruins the underside's of vehicle's too. I guess they'll touch up the underside yearly though if you bring in in for nothing.

Matt

 

[DK35vince]

Vince, what type of oil do you use? I've been wanting to have this done on my 2015 3500 but they charge like $700 but the salts here really ruins the underside's of vehicle's too. I guess they'll touch up the underside yearly though if you bring in in for nothing.

Matt

I have always just used used motor oil.
I'm considering trying some Fluid Film next year when I spray it.
Several places around here that oil vehicles have been using Fluid Film and seem to like it.

 

[DK35vince]

Vince, what type of oil do you use? I've been wanting to have this done on my 2015 3500 but they charge like $700 but the salts here really ruins the underside's of vehicle's too. I guess they'll touch up the underside yearly though if you bring in in for nothing.

Matt

I drilled a hole in the door jam of each door so I can spray inside the doors, then just cap the hole with a plastic plug.
I do the same thing in the jam so I can spray up in the cab corners.
I also drill some holes inside the bed so I can spray in around the beds fender wells.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Hauled this home today. Clearing a lot next to where I work, our guys doing the demo work on 2 old houses, and a couple soft maple trees. Excavator operator didn't mind doing dropping these logs on my trailer instead of in our dump trucks...



Going to my buddies sawmill on Friday!

 

[aeblank]

Great info on the "undercoating" of oil.
I recall Paul Short discussing how he uses fluid film on his 1993 chevy, and it's spotless.
My 1995 chevy was NOT spotless.
I just got a 2014 chevy, so I'm suddenly interested in how to prevent rust again.

Anyway, I was going to dig up that youtube video try to figure out exactly what he was doing. Now, I don't have to.
Do you just put it in a mister bottle? Do you have to thin it out at all? Does the truck end up smelling all the time because of the oil?

I have GOBS of used oil. The new truck is a diesel, so once I change its oil I'll have GOBS and GOBS and GOBS of oil.

 

[DK35vince]

My vehicles will smell for a short time till any oil I got on the exhaust system gets burned off. But they do not smell for long.
I use an undercoat sprayer ( think it was around $60) and air compressor for spraying the oil.
Fluid Film offers a spray gun for spraying their oil, but I'm sure an undercoating sprayer would work fine for that also.
I never thin the oil. My undercoat sprayer sprays anything I put through it very well.

 

[aeblank]

Cool. Thanks for the info! Never heard of an undercoating sprayer.
I read in a truck forum that spraying fluid film on a GM frame harms/softens the coating that GM has on it.
On my truck, 2 years old, the frame has rust (spots) on it....

pondering some POR-15 on the frame.

I suppose I'm wandering way off topic.....................

 

[DK35vince]

Cool. Thanks for the info! Never heard of an undercoating sprayer.
I read in a truck forum that spraying fluid film on a GM frame harms/softens the coating that GM has on it.
On my truck, 2 years old, the frame has rust (spots) on it.

From what I've seen I'm not convinced the factory coatings work that great anyway.
If it was mine I would spray it.
Oiling makes a huge difference.