There's freaking salt everywhere! I've never had a car that does this. Just an observation.
I recently discovered a cover for the lower pulleys etc to avoild salt water being splashed up from the passanger tire. I'm sure that would help avoid some of the salt.
It''s defintly car wash time
Oh I've already got that. But it's everywhere. Under the top of the hood, all over the hoses, the oil filter looks like a salt lick, etc..
sounds like you don't have enough oil leaks to wash all that salt away :lol: my engine actually isn't anywhere near as bad as yours from the sounds of it
Well we just had a snowstorm last night and I was driving for a few hours. But this happened the last time it snowed too. I had to wash the engine really well.
yea i hate rust... and the salt is really bad in the winter. I'm going to be doing some restorative work to a recently acquired jetta.. first line of business is to sand blast and powder coat many of the front end parts :wink:
i think the worst pulley has to be the power steering pump pulley... that one is soo exposed!!! i remember once going through this 'puddle' that made my belts slip. the tach went to 0 and seems like the water shorted out my system. would be nice to have a setup like on the Argo's :twisted: then take it for a dip! :lol:
Belt slipping, that's one thing I need to work on, but for my alternator as I regularly go through deep water. Out east, Land Rovers get a lot of frame rust. the two options are waxoil, which wouldn't work well for body parts, and POR-15 paint, which does work well for body parts. It has a special primer, and the paint. It may only come in black though, but I have heard it stops rust.
http://www.por15.com/ Powder coating works as long as no water gets past it. Once it does, the rust travels underneath the coating, unseen.
Belt slipping, that's one thing I need to work on, but for my alternator as I regularly go through deep water. Out east, Land Rovers get a lot of frame rust. the two options are waxoil, which wouldn't work well for body parts, and POR-15 paint, which does work well for body parts. It has a special primer, and the paint. It may only come in black though, but I have heard it stops rust. http://www.por15.com/ Powder coating works as long as no water gets past it. Once it does, the rust travels underneath the coating, unseen.
hmmm stealth rust! :shock: i'll have to keep that in mind... I can't really see water getting past though, unless it had some sort of rip or tear, which would seem to be very very very rare.
if you want a trick with the pulley slipping just use some soap to clean off the oils on the pulley. its a nice quick fix... doesn't last quite long enough though!
i'm considering getting a skid plate for my car too. the PD engine I'm getting has an aluminum oil pan (yea skid plate would be great peace of mind)
before powder coating get your parts acid dipped that would insure that there was NO RUST anywere on that part.
before powder coating get your parts acid dipped that would insure that there was NO RUST anywere on that part.
hmmm even better! now I must see about getting a hot tank
