All you fuckers living in rusty places

[Thatg9659]

All my life in the Rust Belt, since moving further into it. I stopped driving the vehicles I like in the salt.

 

[Winchested]

All my life in the Rust Belt, since moving further into it. I stopped driving the vehicles I like in the salt.

Yep. My Scout is already hibernating.

My friends would drive their jeeps all winter all of their JK's are Rotten, not many TJs/ TJU's have survived. My ma's was a rotten pile but it had 400k km on a replaced 2.5L.

 

[det107]

I’ve bought series trucks from the 60’s and 70’s that had frames completely rotted off and were only on the road for 7-10 years.

I've never seen a badly rusted out frame of that vintage. We would think that our steel yards were using locally sourced fresh ore.

Only the early rice burners (Jap tech using recycled metals) & the US auto industry using (buying) the same technical knowledge metals on their vehicles-

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

in comparison: my 200k mile 06' civic doesn't have a spot of rust anywhere other than surface on some fasteners. I've driven it at least 5 winters now, it never got washed till the spring. eventually it's moving down to MD to my buddy, it'll probably never see snow again

I need to get another civic. 03, was the best car I've had.

My ma's was a rotten pile but it had 400k km on a replaced 2.5L.

Thats what, 80k miles?

 

[muddyrover]

I've never seen a badly rusted out frame of that vintage. We would think that our steel yards were using locally sourced fresh ore.

Only the early rice burners (Jap tech using recycled metals) & the US auto industry using (buying) the same technical knowledge metals on their vehicles-

Land Rover frames are only slightly thicker than 16ga steel…. And fully boxed to keep the mud in. At one point they weren’t even painted on the inside.

 

[Winchested]

I need to get another civic. 03, was the best car I've had.


Thats what, 80k miles?

Haha it's not like our useless money lol.

 

[Ebs]

can't rust from the inside if there is no inside, c-channel superiority

 

[Winchested]

I've never seen a badly rusted out frame of that vintage. We would think that our steel yards were using locally sourced fresh ore.

Only the early rice burners (Jap tech using recycled metals) & the US auto industry using (buying) the same technical knowledge metals on their vehicles-

I work in steel. Steel is steel as long as it meets the set spec of customer. Regardless of whether it came from EAF (electric arc furnace) 90% all recycled. Or a BOF (basic oxygen furnace) still large amounts of recycled material in every batch.

Steels of today Galvaneal, gavlalume, etc etc are worlds better chemistry than the 60s/ 70s.

We make 100s of kinds of hot flat rolled that the goes for further processing/ pickling, galv cold mill etc.

 

[[memphis]]

How are the +2008 GMC 2500s for frame rot? I’ve seen 1500s rot out of this vintage up here but can’t say I’ve seen 2500s with rot. Not much on the google crystal ball either. I found a 2500 I like

 

[Steve300xcw]

How are the +2008 GMC 2500s for frame rot?

Have not seen a rotted out one yet

 

[[486]]

What’s wrong with using a regular punch? Besides buying it?

they're always broken off or bent
little pin punches are a consumable

 

[[486]]

don't those have a steel firewall and shit that rots out?

yeah they got a lotta steel in them that rots bad, then takes the aluminum with it

 

[DMG]

I've never seen a badly rusted out frame of that vintage. We would think that our steel yards were using locally sourced fresh ore.

Only the early rice burners (Jap tech using recycled metals) & the US auto industry using (buying) the same technical knowledge metals on their vehicles-

C channel frames never rusted like boxed frames

 

[Thatg9659]

C channel frames never rusted like boxed frames

Toyota tundras have this nice little lip that traps a half an inch of shit from front to back, plus multi layers to trap the good salt.

But at least they’re Made in America, no chicken tax! lol

 

[[486]]

and rangers got the fuel tank and fuel lines and brake lines all packed in there so the left one catches a bunch of shit that holds salt mud in there to rot

 

[DMG]

After you fix that, the shackle or shackle hanger rots off

 

[det107]

After you fix that, the shackle or shackle hanger rots off

I did the Bell Tech 6400 first and a few years later...

and rangers got the fuel tank and fuel lines and brake lines all packed in there so the left one catches a bunch of shit that holds salt mud in there to rot

... and rear frame rusted off, thank goodness that only the emissions canister(?) fell off. Another reason I stopped driving the Ranger was the rear end was getting too squirrelly. I bought a Tacoma, the rear frame isn't any better-

 

[[486]]

After you fix that, the shackle or shackle hanger rots off

that's why the pickup box is there
oddly enough the box floor stays on the frame better than the shackle hangers stay on the frame

 

[KrustyTJ]

How are the +2008 GMC 2500s for frame rot? I’ve seen 1500s rot out of this vintage up here but can’t say I’ve seen 2500s with rot. Not much on the google crystal ball either. I found a 2500 I like

Here’s the sweet spots there not as bad as the 1500’s tho

 

[[memphis]]

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