Undercoating

here is a quote from elsewhere...

"The rust belt out east is unforgiving"

for me that is like eastern Iowa on the Mississippi
LOL
 
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Rusts never rests around here. I've never been to iowa. I recently bought a trailer from aluma that manufacture's them there....its made of mostly aluminum except for the torsion axle, and wheels. Been as far west as michigan, its gets rusty there to.
 
tacojoel said:
Rusts never rests around here. I've never been to iowa. I recently bought a trailer from aluma that manufacture's them there....its made of mostly aluminum except for the torsion axle, and wheels. Been as far west as michigan, its gets rusty there to.
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from my rudimentary understanding the closer to the great lakes you get the worse it gets, because there is always a fine mist of freeze in the air since the lakes don't freeze over and continue to evaporate the large bodies of water
 
JayQQ97 said:
from my rudimentary understanding the closer to the great lakes you get the worse it gets, because there is always a fine mist of freeze in the air since the lakes don't freeze over and continue to evaporate the large bodies of water
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Couldn't say...only been there in mid summer to run their national enduro the jack pine. They have nasty woods just like here in the northeast.
 
i feel the urge to Test this cosmoline for preventing any rust on the most exotic of Toyota frame metal
shave the crap pee-coating off (test section) to the naked silvery metal and cosmoline cover it with the amber and run it a winter and see if anything gets under to flash rust
 
this is very intriguing...
is it worthy of a long road trip east on US-6

 
Idk, the frame replacement sections look pretty cheesy to me. Toyota replaces the entire frame on the tundra's, and tacoma's when their that bad. Unless your able to coat the insides of these frames, they will rust through starting from there.
 
I am pulling trigger on a case of cosmoline black
Wish they had a half amber half black option!
 
REMOVABILITY:
RP-342 "BLACK" can be easily removed with any over-the-counter petroleum solvent. Examples include mineral spirits, paint thinner, naphtha, diesel fuel, or our very own Cosmoline Remover. Our Cosmoline Remover is very effective, but also considerably more expensive than the other options mentioned.
 
I recently cut a new wood transom, and seats for a vintage 12' starcraft aluminum boat i picked up. The aluminum under the old transom was somewhat corroded looking so i wire wheeled it, and sprayed the area with cosmoline before bolting the new transom back in place. I took some paint thinner to remove the cosmoline overspray. It came right off.
 
i received delivery of that black cosmoline in spray cans i bot the week prior
then did a small sample test and it sprays out like liquid butter.. its beautiful :)
not all lumpy looking like that brush-on paste at all
 
Trying some black cosmoline on that weathered driveshaft
It's definitely drippy
There were no instructions on how cold it can be to properly apply, it's barely 50 degrees out this morning

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black cosmoline on the engine cradle for the old Corolla
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Next up are the new moog control arms and OEM brackets
 
tacojoel said:
Don't forget to do the insides.:rolleyes:
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All in all that subframe was not caked in rust, just a little around the edges that I could tell
I abrasive blasted that off to clean metal long awhile ago and put some chassis paint on it last year
 
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Brakleen to the rescue lol... I can't breathe underneath here cough cough
It removed all that dirty WoolWax that did not blowoff
And now I shall coat with magical black cosmoline potion to make it good looking hopefully

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