This is my first time living anywhere that salt is put on the road and I was worried about damage to my ride. I initially tried to use my lawn sprinklers to wash the underside of my 100. After spending 2 hours of rotating the sprinkler around the bottom of the carriage an in the wheel wells, I was not impressed with the outcome. So I picked up a pressure washer with the goal of getting that salt out of there.
Phase one included buying an affordable pressure washer (AR Blue Clean 240, 1750 psi) from BJ's and using it out of the box to clean the wheel wells.
After getting a little of the tire wells and cleaning off the rear undercarriage, I quickly found that the standard pressure washing fitting does NOT reach under the carriage or tire wells effectively.
However it worked great to clean off the spare tire. (didn't plan on posting about it so NO before pictures. Trust me it looked like crap.
So I did some research and was led here to ammo nyc where he recommended using 90 degree angle washer adapter.
Over the weekend I got to do phase 2 after the adapter arrived (amazon.com).
The 90 degree adapter (not a full 90 degrees but that is how it is listed??) worked great.
It really cleaned up the tire wells and the area under the doors. Specifically the AHC COMPONENTS were a mess. Again, I did not take any before pictures because I had no intention to post about this, BUT I did find some interesting AHC related stuff I do want to share.
I had changed the AHC fluid prior to the crazy snow/salt driving so I know how the components looked prior to driving in those conditions, they really collected road grit. I spent a good 10 minutes on each side trying to get salt and dirt to quit flowing from that area.
What I do want to share is that if you have a 100 with AHC and live in a salted area you definitely want to hit this area with high flow water as it collects stuff really well.
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I certainly enjoyed that sun!!
ETA: Phase 3 will be to use POR 15 on the small surface rust areas one day this summer. I do not plan to undercoat like NYC AMMO did, (yet).
Phase one included buying an affordable pressure washer (AR Blue Clean 240, 1750 psi) from BJ's and using it out of the box to clean the wheel wells.
After getting a little of the tire wells and cleaning off the rear undercarriage, I quickly found that the standard pressure washing fitting does NOT reach under the carriage or tire wells effectively.
However it worked great to clean off the spare tire. (didn't plan on posting about it so NO before pictures. Trust me it looked like crap.
So I did some research and was led here to ammo nyc where he recommended using 90 degree angle washer adapter.
Over the weekend I got to do phase 2 after the adapter arrived (amazon.com).
The 90 degree adapter (not a full 90 degrees but that is how it is listed??) worked great.
It really cleaned up the tire wells and the area under the doors. Specifically the AHC COMPONENTS were a mess. Again, I did not take any before pictures because I had no intention to post about this, BUT I did find some interesting AHC related stuff I do want to share.
I had changed the AHC fluid prior to the crazy snow/salt driving so I know how the components looked prior to driving in those conditions, they really collected road grit. I spent a good 10 minutes on each side trying to get salt and dirt to quit flowing from that area.
What I do want to share is that if you have a 100 with AHC and live in a salted area you definitely want to hit this area with high flow water as it collects stuff really well.
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I certainly enjoyed that sun!!
ETA: Phase 3 will be to use POR 15 on the small surface rust areas one day this summer. I do not plan to undercoat like NYC AMMO did, (yet).