Chicago Meet-up and possible Fluid Film opportunity

[Leandro]

Thanks Goisu and linux for organizing this event and the chitown4x4 guys for hosting us.
Looking forward for more meetings.

BTW, I recommend rust proofing with goisu, cheap insurance to keep your truck running and it looks awesome down there, nice and shinny.

 

[linuxgod]

It was great to meet everyone and see the ChiTown 4x4 shop. 425k miles... wow. I hope my 200 goes as long as Bo's 100!

Thanks for busting your arse all day to spray everyone, @GoISU!

 

[m3fan]

I was bummed to miss this but I ended up buying the whole kit from Amazon and doing it myself yesterday. Really glad I did. I was really impressed with the sprayer and extension wands, etc. However, I can't imagine doing more than one car per day, though. It was hours of crawling around under the car in awkward positions on cold concrete, particularly futzing with those skid plates and the at least 3 bolt sizes holding them on (WTF were they thinking with that design? And, of course some idiot assembled them wrong before).

Anyway, I was additionally able to remove and put anti-seize on all of the skid plate bolts and do the same with the KDSS valve guard (at least 3 14mm bolts holding the little plate on, funny) and coat the valve itself with grease. Also dropped the spare (first time ever done on my car, tools and spare were brand new/unused clearly) and clean it all up, shoot everything under the spare, hit the chain winch, etc. Just really took my time and got as thorough as reasonably possible. Really nice to hit everything BEFORE it's frozen/seized/snapped off in 10 years!

 

[TonyP]

... particularly futzing with those skid plates and the at least 3 bolt sizes holding them on (WTF were they thinking with that design? And, of course some idiot assembled them wrong before)....

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All OEM skid plate fasteners are 12mm. The transmission skid is 14mm but you shouldn't have to remove that.