Grib, Dan,
Unfortunately the high pressure water from the car wash is part of the
problem. It just forces the salt into the little places it didn't get into
before. Electricals take it the worst. I'm convinced the very best way to
handle it is just to let the hose with a small sprinkler head flush it off
at low pressure. That at least prolongs the time until the salt wins. My
'76 Chev pickup has probably spent it's last event on the salt. The rocker
panels are about gone along with the bottom of the floorboards. The day we
spent picking up wire and cones in 3" of water three years ago had a
devastating effect on the floorboards. I wash it off and try to get
everything that is there but with the salt from Bonneville and the salted
roads in the winter it's an uphill battle. Too bad ... truck has a 350 with
a 4 barrel, HE ignition and 4-bolt mains, 120,000 well maintained miles ...
hope I can find a potential street rodder buyer with vision. I'll have to
order some of the Salt-X. Send me details off line please. My '97 pickup
goes to the salt next year.
Wes
on 9/27/01 5:18 AM, Dan Warner at dwarner@electrorent.com wrote:
> just begun to battle the white stuff. I cannot believe (the places)
> where (or how) that salt got to.
> *************************************************
>
> Grib,
>
> You think you've got it bad now just wait until we run in water. The salt goes
> every where as a solution then dries into an alien life form.
>
> Now you are going to comment on sentence one - "run in water?" We've been
> pitted in water before, 1/8 - 1/2"
> deep, as long as the course is dry we can race. I have pictures of cars
> pushing up to 1/4 mile before starting because of the water. It becomes
> interesting when the wind blows and the lake moves from one place to another.
> Just more stuff to add to the Bonneville story files.
>
> DW
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