Afternoon Fellas, Corey Allan here up in Maine; I’ve been a lurker for a bit and now I guess I get my hazing, lol..
We bought an 03 LX this past weekend; not as amazing as I had hoped but far from a lost cause. We’ve decided to do some rust prevention prior to putting the LX into service. These Maine winters are brutal, they’ll turn a nice 100 into swiss cheese real quick like, + my girlfriend isnt fastidious about psi washing on a frequent basis in the inclement seasons. I ship out so I cant make up for that shortcoming. Question, to what extent do you all go to mitigate and prevent further rust on a clean truck? I’ll add pics and let you know what I have going on here. Rear hatch is just starting in the bad places but not nearly as bad as Ive seen. It also looks like I’m just seeing a little bleed coming from one door bottom between the belt moulding and the door; I suspect the clips. The plan is to have the hatch seam done professionally and woolwaxing or fluid filming inside it, pull tail lights and treat that cavity, pull beltline moldings treat seams and inner doors, pull door sill moldings and treat inner rockers, obviously do the whole chassis along with all other underbody cracks and crevasses. Front skidplate is starting to cheese too so we’ll do that as well. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome and encouraged. I’ll preface this post with the fact that I’m a gearhead engineer who collects a few cars, I know my way around the ol toolbox and I’m intimately familiar with the fluid film products but not so much with woolwax (or other products that get relatively hard) nor do I profess to know a whole lot about 100s. I actually bought this to sell but my lady likes it too much, now I kinda do too so we’re gunna sell the POS JK and go with the LX. Here is what I’m looking at:
We bought an 03 LX this past weekend; not as amazing as I had hoped but far from a lost cause. We’ve decided to do some rust prevention prior to putting the LX into service. These Maine winters are brutal, they’ll turn a nice 100 into swiss cheese real quick like, + my girlfriend isnt fastidious about psi washing on a frequent basis in the inclement seasons. I ship out so I cant make up for that shortcoming. Question, to what extent do you all go to mitigate and prevent further rust on a clean truck? I’ll add pics and let you know what I have going on here. Rear hatch is just starting in the bad places but not nearly as bad as Ive seen. It also looks like I’m just seeing a little bleed coming from one door bottom between the belt moulding and the door; I suspect the clips. The plan is to have the hatch seam done professionally and woolwaxing or fluid filming inside it, pull tail lights and treat that cavity, pull beltline moldings treat seams and inner doors, pull door sill moldings and treat inner rockers, obviously do the whole chassis along with all other underbody cracks and crevasses. Front skidplate is starting to cheese too so we’ll do that as well. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome and encouraged. I’ll preface this post with the fact that I’m a gearhead engineer who collects a few cars, I know my way around the ol toolbox and I’m intimately familiar with the fluid film products but not so much with woolwax (or other products that get relatively hard) nor do I profess to know a whole lot about 100s. I actually bought this to sell but my lady likes it too much, now I kinda do too so we’re gunna sell the POS JK and go with the LX. Here is what I’m looking at:
