@Taco2Cruiser did I order right by getting zinc anti-seize to use with budbuilt's aluminum skids and the stainless steel hardware?
Yep Yep. You're good.
For the group, my little opinion.
As some (most) of you guys know, I just love to test crap, and see all the bad things that can happen are. That said, I've lived in some rust areas and honestly, from a silver, zinc, copper anti-seize, it just works. Using blue loc-tite, I've seen rust get in there more than I would of expected.
Now that ARP ultra torque stuff, I love it. When I build a motor, I use it. Because for me, with getting torque values exact, when I'm trying to squeeze the equivalent of a 1/10th a second off a 1/4 mile time out of a motor, it helps. But I would not go out of my way to use it to keep fasteners from seizing when outside of a bath of oil.
At the end of the day, fasteners that are steel, rust. Whether it's the treads, or the fastener's head, it's going to rust. What matters is the fastener not getting stuck in the threads. So if someone was worried about fasteners themselves rusting, replace it with stainless fasteners and use anti seize. Problem solved, problem staying solved.
For general rust prevention, yeah know... I'm at 82 cruisers in the shop since in 16 months. And they all have rust on them. Fluid film, while a good product, as
@KLF said, is not an apply and forget.
For me, I don't use that, or any film. I identify rust, I clean it with a phosphoric acid, and I paint it with Rustoleum Profession enamel semi-gloss. I have literally zero rust anywhere. On all the new 200s I've done, I enamel the welds when they come in for something (along with he KDSS junctions, its just the right things to do and it takes me about 30 minutes, so not a big deal).
Toyota doesn't clean their welds. The robots zip them, and then the frames take a bath. But you can see the gold-ish rust dots of a weld with a cruiser that has had only a month on the road, clear as day. The coating is falling off, because the welds were not cleaned, and the paint goes with it. Then the rust starts.
So use an anti seize on freaking everything (other than lug studs, not to say you can't, I just don't) and I clean and paint the frame as needed. Truck will last forever. But I've seen some sad frames covered in fluid film (frame that the owners said they have been religious about applying it yearly).
Oh, and paint inside the four front bump stop mounts. That area has two hold in them, but no drainage. They sit by a spinning wheel and fill with crud. They get rusted, QUICK. Blow them out is air, fill them with a chemical rust remover, and spray them with primer and enamel. It's sad how bad they can get.
