Blacked out gutter....and WARNING to others..

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3puttcop said:
I live in North Florida also (St. Augustine), and about 5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. When I bought my cruiser 4 years ago it had about 4 small bubbles above rain gutter. Of course here in the nations oldest city, anything left outside is wet with dew for about 9 hours a night. In 2 years those rust bubbles turned into genuine rust holes eating up the rain gutter. No rust anywhere else. After 2 months of plasma torch cutting and metal replacement my FJ60 looks new, and lives in the garage. I can attest that if this rust is not snuffed fast, especially in humid climate it will spread like wildfire.
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Man, I really like that dark green color. You got any other photos of that thing posted up anywhere?
 
Landpimp said:
I heard(artical in an Aussie mag) that if you leave your windows down a wee bit(when not raining) when parked outside it will help the roof rot from starting.

ever notice that 60's are like a sauna inside on a not even too hot of day? they are very well sealed and any humidity has no place to go but up, supposedly even an part full soda can or similar will do harm.

true or not I dunno? but it makes some sense

John
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I had the interior trim off so I could see inside the rear quarter panels recently.

The metal panels looked liked condensation had formed at some time and left brownish streaks.

They also say cruisers rust less on the same side as the exhaust because the warmth dries that area out.
 
Not in the city limits, I’m in the north….live off county road 210. Although I am 12th generation genuine St. Augustine/Minorcan, and drive my FJ60 into town regularly. Just put the lift and tires on….it was pretty mundane before that. I still have a bunch of stuff I want to do to it.

Swank, the reflection makes it look green but its actually charcoal gray, some new GM color code. It blended well with the old blue grey color in door jambs. I was too damn cheap to had jambs painted.
 
Me and a few cruiserheads have a trail ride coming up June 11th and 12th....your more than welcome to come with...just let me know if ya want to come....

-Al
 
3Putt...Great looking rig! What dept do you work for?

Lowtide.....I can second that about the gutters....From what I understand your rig came from up north, so I guess that with all the work you've done finding a little up there was no surprise, eh?

I just cut out two small (nickel size) pieces of the roof skin yesterday on my totally southern cruiser, where the PO had a gutter mount attach.....am fixing those now, and went ahead and bought some seam sealer, as there are traces of rust starting to show (just barely) along various places along both gutters, but I don't think it is that bad yet....we will see once I scrape/ground out the sealer next weekend....

The only other trace of rust I've found was in the back bumper, where some good ole southern red clay had packed itself into the recess of the bumper around the rear crossmember/frame rail....was able to chip off and wirebrush most of it out when I took the dented bumper off....Painted what I could, now looking for cheap aftermarket unit......

Probably will go with the black aftermarket one from SOR.....

Lowtide, you take any more pics of what you found? I didn't take any of the holes I cut, but may show some (next weekend?) before/after of gutters to show the diff between what is visible and not if it is drastic...

Everyone have a great time at GSMTR! :cheers:
 
I work for Jacksonville Sheriff's Office/Police. My truck was a Florida only truck...2nd owner so the Florida sun nuked my dash and the blue/grey paint was oxidized white on the roof and hood before I painted it. Notice on my rig, no crome trim on the roof seam.
 
Cruisin'Carolina said:
3Putt...Great looking rig! What dept do you work for?

Lowtide.....I can second that about the gutters....From what I understand your rig came from up north, so I guess that with all the work you've done finding a little up there was no surprise, eh?

Lowtide, you take any more pics of what you found? I didn't take any of the holes I cut, but may show some (next weekend?) before/after of gutters to show the diff between what is visible and not if it is drastic...

Everyone have a great time at GSMTR! :cheers:
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Nope sorry i did not..i was too much in a rush to get it done and relax a bit before this crazy day....just checkin on my mud one last time before we head out the door tonight...hasta guys...

-Al
 
lowtideride said:
welll after leaning my truck up agianst a tree and bending a good section of my gutter in..I decided to paint it since the tree also took off most of the paint.

I wire wheeled it and found out almost the whole thing was rusted, and there where only a few small spots where you could tell there was rust under the paint. For you cruiserheads that think ya might only have a few lil rust spots on the gutter, it might be worth checking out.

So, here it is...painted, sealed and painted agian...

-Al :beer:


I'm also calling this the before picture...leaving for GSMTR tomorrow :bounce: :bounce:
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Dude that looks good. I am getting ready to do the same thing around the bottom that you have, but with Duraback instead. Have you done the hood yet?
 
Do steel cables work well for branch risers???

I was thinking of fabricating a set out of steel tubing for mine.. they were going to be multipurpose, branch risers during the day, and soemthing else at night. (It's top secret-- a design feature of my friend and mine's "Super Rack" concept we are designing. :) )

But if cables work ok, I might go that route and save weight on the SuperRack. :)


Steve
 
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