Best for rust prevention?

[JackLikesTrucks]

Living in Northeast Ohio, we see salt on a daily basis in the winter. Heck. we live over the largest salt mine in the world. Most frames are flaky-rusty in 2-3 years.

So I oil spray my cars 2x year and I never had rust through. Yes some touch-up on occasion but no seam damage.

But with this Ranger, I need to pop the bedliner and inspect for rust damage coming from KS and LA previous owners.

Is oilspray good for the under-liner area or perhaps a WaxOyl type product?

A new bed is about $3300 and cab about $5600. Dont want to lose em to rust due to neglect...

Ideas?

 

[koda6966]

A new bed is about $3300 and cab about $5600. Dont want to lose em to rust due to neglect...

Not true. You just need to find a vehicle that was in a front end collision for the bed, or rear for the cab. get em real cheap.

 

[hunt-n-fish]

Living in Northeast Ohio, we see salt on a daily basis in the winter. Heck. we live over the largest salt mine in the world. Most frames are flaky-rusty in 2-3 years.

So I oil spray my cars 2x year and I never had rust through. Yes some touch-up on occasion but no seam damage.

But with this Ranger, I need to pop the bedliner and inspect for rust damage coming from KS and LA previous owners.

Is oilspray good for the under-liner area or perhaps a WaxOyl type product?

A new bed is about $3300 and cab about $5600. Dont want to lose em to rust due to neglect...

Ideas?

Apparently, I don't know Jack... Nice to meet you

I'm not sure what you could use under the bed liner. I would say a rustproofing or undercoating would be your best bet under there. I don't like them, never have, never will; they just rub the floor and sides and wear thru the paint and trap all sorts of unnessesary crap underneath that just holds moisture. As far as the oil spray on the underside of your truck, some people I know have had great success with it and others have not. I personally would go with an undercoating/rustproofing agent, either done professionally or you could buy the materials at a body & paint supply store and DIY.

 

[mhughes165]

Apparently, I don't know Jack... Nice to meet you

I'm not sure what you could use under the bed liner. I would say a rustproofing or undercoating would be your best bet under there. I don't like them, never have, never will; they just rub the floor and sides and wear thru the paint and trap all sorts of unnessesary crap underneath that just holds moisture. As far as the oil spray on the underside of your truck, some people I know have had great success with it and others have not. I personally would go with an undercoating/rustproofing agent, either done professionally or you could buy the materials at a body & paint supply store and DIY.

i used to just have a 2.9 that leaked alot of oil.....i never got any rust on the underside of my ranger then LOL

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I don't like them, never have, never will; they just rub the floor and sides and wear thru the paint and trap all sorts of unnessesary crap underneath that just holds moisture.

While that is true, the fact that they are always rubbing keeps any hope rust has of taking off at bay. I have had a drop in one in my Ranger for 6 years with no rust developments, just polished bare metal.

Pitching the drop in and getting a good spray in bedliner ($300-$400) would by far and away to be the way to go. My F-150 had a cheap spray in one when I got it and it is holding up ok but is kind of thin, my Ranger needs bedsides first before I spend that kind of money on it. Our trucks at work have Linex, it seems to hold up really well. If I ever get a truck sprayed, it will probably be with that.

 

[Simple_serf]

Well, you are better off by haveing a ranger, to start.

The Jap trucks rot out almost completely in 10 years...not the body anymore, but the frames.

Best thing is to rinse all of the salt out once a week or so in the winter, if the temp is good for it. I also use spray grease on certain parts (like that lip of the tailgate that ALWAYS rots on these trucks). My truck has a roll on type bedliner, but the rot is starting to come through the seams from the wheelwells.

10 Years of WNY Calcium Chloride...It hasn't fallen apart yet. (Yes...before anybody says anything...we use CALCIUM chloride here...Not Sodium Chloride...freezing point is lower.)

 

[koda6966]

Do you know... that road salt has Cyanide Ions in it as well?

Fun thing to spend time around.

 

[chittybangbang]

two words

WINTER RAT

 

[khooper]

* Prevent rust by keeping the underside of your car clean also. Place a lawn sprinkler under your car and turn on full blast. Move occasionally so it will reach all areas. This is a good way to remove all salt and road grime.
* If you chip the paint on your car, clean promptly and apply touch-up paint or clear nail polish to the area.
* If the carpet in your vehicle is subjected to a lot of salty water over the winter, rust could be forming where you can't even see it, underneath the carpet. A good rug shampoo, either a do-it-yourself project or professionally done, will help remove the salt from the carpet fibers. Be sure to clean the upholstery too.
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[Simple_serf]

Do you know... that road salt has Cyanide Ions in it as well?

Fun thing to spend time around.

Superglue also has Cyanide in it...that's why you don't heat it up.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Well, you are better off by haveing a ranger, to start.

The Jap trucks rot out almost completely in 10 years...not the body anymore, but the frames.

Toyota has a recall on that now, they will give you blue book + $2k for their trucks with the frame rust issue.

 

[hihoslvr]

Anyway, back to the original question: a cheap solution to protecting the bed under a plastic drop-in liner would be to pull the liner out once or twice a year, and wax the bed. I had one of those drop-ins in my old Toyota, I would just coat the bed paint with Turtle wax and leave it without buffing; the floor held up, but everything else rusted out. ps-this was back in MI abt 10 yrs ago.

 

[blkmazda90]

Toyota has a recall on that now, they will give you blue book + $2k for their trucks with the frame rust issue.

I heard about that. 95 to 2000 tacomas I believe. Some guy i know gave them back his 2000 tacoma 4x4 with a 4 banger he paid 6,000 for a few years ago. They gave him 8,000.

I know we all hate toyota. BUT that is pretty good of them to do something like that. I dont hear much about recalls in this big of a amount much. So congrats to toyota for stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility