my yellow beast was ziebart'd at one point. now i'm replacing both side floor pans, bed, bedsides, and miscellaneous other sheet metal. the sad part is, the truck only has 64,000 miles on it.

grease is a cheap form of rustproofing common up here in the good ol' u.p. of michigan.

 

Product I use is called fluid film. You can buy it in bulk and spray it out of a gun or use aerosol cans. It works fantastic, is not toxic, and our salt infested winter roads really do a number on anything not coated with it. My plow is 5 yrs old and looks new with zero rust and it see's salt nearly daily for about six months of the year. Anthony

 

Spray on Gear oil out of an old paint gun.

 

Sorry guys but I work on greasy, nasty, oil and grease covered stuff at work every day. I can't imagine having to work on my own stuff after I sprayed it down with old engine oil, gear oil or smeared grease on it..............................Just wouldn't be any fun if I did that. Not saying that the above mentioned ways won't do the trick but............YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL

 

Hes right.. i use it everyday as a helo mechanic. they make several diff kinds, all work good, ive been tryin to get my hands on some for awhile, but hazmat runs a pretty tight ship.

 

Try Fluid Film, I use it on my trucks in the doors, wheel arches etc. Search for it on google, the hype is real, it sticks and creeps over time. You may have to re-apply yearly but its good stuff. I use it on my sanders and equipment in the winter and then spray again for when i store the snow equipment over the summer.

 

Guess i didn't realize so many guys before me knew about fluid film too....but hey its great stuff. Never knew till i tried it myself.

 

Never heard of fluid film, just went and had a look at it. Might try it if I can find some around here.

 

Try ebay, there are some decent deals on there

 

Idaho went to salt during the winter about 7 yrs ago and I've been using fluid film since in attempt to battle corrosion. Few things I've figured out. Undercoating does not help protect, in fact it can accelerate corrosion. I learned about fluid film on a plow site I belong to so thought I would try it. It's amazing & non toxic to use and spray unlike spraying petroleum oil. I don't even have rust on the springs, hitch, inside of the rear bumper, etc. Regarding doors, most Dodge's around here have significant rust on the bottoms. I don't even have the begining of it on my 96 which plows snow 5-6 months of the year. Now my Ford had rust before I obtained it so I scaled it, coated the inside of the door with POR 15 after removing the door panel and then sprayed fluid film all over it. No further rust. I coat the entire underside, suspension, calipers, steering linkages, battery terminals, trailer-electrical plugs, drums, wheel wells, and the rims. Sorry so long, I simply hate rust on my vehicles and am a believer about this product. Anthony

 

The way I see it is if sacorski, the maker of multi million dollar aircraft, say to use it then its gotta be good ****. Let's face it those guys don't get paid the big bucks to slap some used motor oil on aircraft

 

I just checked out their website and it looks interesting. The salt in Idaho is really sucking anymore. Where are you buying yours at? I did a search on their site and it came up with nothing near me..............

 

there has been some people on here use bed liner spray for the under side to keep it from rusting.

 

Tried the bedliner but salt gets underneath the coating and lifts it. It will temporarily cover the rust but will fail as it has done on two of my trucks. Not meaning to sound negative, just sharing my experiences. I honesty have given tremendous thought and time to slowing corrosion on my vehicles which I plan to keep and have to drive during winter.
I'm in northern Idaho, shoshone county where the state literally coats the roads up to three times daily or more with either solid rock salt or liquid sodium chloride irregardless of road conditions. If they don't use it this year, they won't get as much product next year is the mentality. So wasteful and *** backwards thinking it makes me almost ill. Until about 7 yrs ago Idaho used sand/gravel for the past 50 yrs or so but it's all about $$'s and they claim it's cheaper to use salt. However, salt is rapidly destroying the road surfaces & bridges, killing trees and vegetation, and will eventually enter the lakes as most of it in this county runs into a river feeding them. Anthony

 

Okay this is a bit of a long story, but read on...

I grew up in northern New England which at that time had to be the rust capital of the universe. Having a new vehicle Ziebarted was very common and beside Ziebart there were other companies that had a similar process.

But the one that wins as far as "Redneck Rustproofing" was Bob Esslinger's operation in Alstead, New Hampshire. Bob would go around in a truck with a several hundred gallon tank and pick up used motor oil from dealerships and service stations. He would then drain that tank into his undercoating system tank. That tank was heated to make the oil flow better.

When you took your vehicle to him he would take a good sized punch and a two lb hammer and make some holes in various places such as the back side of the rocker panels, door frames, etc. Then he'd drive it up on his rack and change into a really dirty (with used oil) coverall and put on an aluminum hardhat with a wide brim.

At that point he'd grab his apparatus which was a spray gun with a compressed air hose and a hose going to his tank of heated oil. He would stand under the vehicle and liberally (and I mean LIBERALLY) cover the entire underside with used oil. It went everywhere. Oil would be dripping from all over... He wasn't done as he would put the nozzle up to the holes he had punched and again very liberally spray the oil.

After he finished he'd back the vehicle off the rack (changing first of course) and you'd pay him ten bucks. When you drove away your car would still be dripping oil profusely all over the road (I wonder how the neighbors felt about that?) and once the exhaust heated up the car would start smoking as the oil on the manifolds and pipes/muffler would be burned off.

He did quite a business as his customers would come back every fall to have their car "re-oiled".