Show us your frame!!!

[funkingonutz]

Frame rust is REAL annoying to me and i HAVE to have a black frame, and we all know how you can hear a ford rust,....
anyways i was just curious what all your frames looked like and what you used(if any) to undercoat, ive used that rubberized stuff from advanced but at 4.00 a can it adds up.. so now i use plain ol' black spraypaint from Home Cheapo for $0.89 a can, if i feel like spending money i jump for the Krlyon "rust tough" crap.
ill upload my frame later...its 3am and the camera is at the girl-friends house

from what ive seen, the early rangers/broncoII's have real bad rust on the transmission crossmenber i could actually flick huge chunks of metal/rust off the thing.
o and ill also have this friend with a street ranger that did his frame lime green (black truck) ill upload that pic too.

 

[Destroyer000]

well i like to use rustoloeum OIL based paint or that valspar stuff from tractor supply.. its 9 bucks a quart can be reduced a little with acetone an works AWESOME! best of all its cheap too

 

[marc11]

My frame rust is bothering the crap out of me. Never seen something only 4-5 years old with so much rust. Even the floor pans are starting with small rust spots. I hit a few spots with flat black Rustoleum as a test. If it lasts through this winter, I plan to paint the entire frame and under carriage with it. Cost wise, probably just a couple of gallons if that, looks wise it would be huge.

 

[funkingonutz]

here is my frame...i have the bed off to do the fuel pump but you get the general idea...everything is going to be undercoated (again) on Tues.
oh, and im putting in new leaf spring brackets.

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[dangeranger01]

Mine doesnt have rust, no vehicle I have ever had has rusted out, (4rangers, 1Mustang) Maby its an east coast thing?

 

[marc11]

I am guessing you do not see much snow and salted roads? Some of us will see salt on the roads from November through March, some even longer than that.

But I think it is a Ford thing to be honest. I have owned several GM trucks and none had the amount of rust I have seen on the last 6 or 7 Rangers I looked at before purchasing the one I have, some were worse, one was 100% rusted, the entire frame, hitch, everythng was rusted, not a spec of paint left that I could see. In fact, just last night a friend was over in his 2004 Silverado, not a spec of rust on his frame, same year, same mileage, lived the same life in the same area. He did have the same surface rust as I do on the floor pans, which was minor, but the frames were night and day.

I was under mine and could see large flakes of paint coming off the frame.

 

[Shran]

Vehicles rust differently out here too. The box on my F150 is rotted out pretty bad, and so is the cab in a few spots. The frame is solid but is pitted all over. It was garaged most of its life and when I got it in '04 it only had 55,000 miles on it.

On the other hand, my '86 Ranger was a farm truck, never garaged, and beaten daily. There is NO rust on the body, and the frame just has some light surface rust.

I have seen trucks of the same year that came from the same owner and cared for the same way do this too. One will have no body left, and the other has no rust at all.

 

[Mutant Pony]

I live DEEP in the rust belt, I have never seen a Ford frame rust in two. I have seen MANY G.M. frames and foreign truck frames rust in two. I have seen cross members rust apart many times but, not the frame rails them selves. I recently saw a 2004 G.M. truck with a LARGE rust hole in the body.
The old E.B. frames where boxed like the japs, They rusted BAD! The new 1/2 ton ford frames are probably going to have much more problem with rust, As they "improved" them.
I wish Ford would quit copying the others and causeing problems for us!

 

[RyanD2]

Just did the rear part of my frame this weekend, took the bed off because it looked real bad. After removing the bed it didn't look as bad as I thought. However the shakles are a mess as well as the upper shock mount bolts. In any case I ground away what I could and used the Rubberized undercoating from Advance Auto. I've used it on previous Jeeps before and it held pretty well. Definetly looks better now that it is all black. Also did the underside of the bed since it was off.

 

[marc11]

Yeah, I am talking light surface rust now, I think it would take years and years to rust through and or break. I just painted the front of the frame and the sides all the way down the length of the truck with Rustoleuom "Hammered" it looks great, hides all imperfections, doesn't need a rust primer and seems to be really thick when it dries. If it holds through the winter I will do the entire frame with it.

How hard is it to remove the bed and any idea what the weight is?

 

[Broaner]

In my experience garaging vs. not garaging has the largest impact on rust and is the reason for large discrepancies in rustage even from same production years. Garage a car/truck that never gets washed and it'll be rotted to hell in a couple years. Garage a car that gets washed every or every other day and it'll be around for decades. Moral of the story, if you don't take care of your vehicles leave them in the driveway. The colder it is the less the salt can attack.

 

[marc11]

That is a good ppint. I usually wash my cars every week or two in the summer. In the winter I hit the car wash every week and make sure I go to one that sprays fresh water on the under carriage. Makes a huge difference.

 

[RyanD2]

How hard is it to remove the bed and any idea what the weight is?

The bed isn't hard to remove. Just the bolts holding it to the frame, tail-lights and fuel filler neck. About the weight... IDK, have to say around 150-200 lbs?? 2 people can lift and remove it. Be sure to soak the bolts before trying to remove them.

 

[dangeranger01]

They dont salt the roads out here, they use some anti freeze crap that the first time it rains is like drivingg on ice.

 

[Nutz-N-Boltz]

I'll have to take a couple pics, but my frame was bad around the shackle mounts. I just cut it off behind the cab and built a new one.