[Land-speed] Preventing Salt Damage & Rust>From>JGMagoo

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dear jg magoo    enter the "barn find "in a destruction derby instead! it will be more fun to talk about! jack
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From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon at comcast.net>
> JG --
> Do what Dick J and Benn suggest, but hold off on the frequent washes on the
> way home.  The less time (in hours) that salt, water and high temperatures
> have to work on unpainted steel in cracks and crevices the better off you
> are.  Dick J lives in a year round warm humid climate.  He has to get rid of
> the salt ASAP.  You live in dry Colorado (except maybe during the spring
> thaw).  So plan on pulling the body off the frame of that deuce well before
> the snow melts, give everything a good scrubbing to get any salt off and
> then put on your favorite rust proofing coating. Also pull the drums and
> check the leaf springs for salt deposits.  And if you can't find the time to
> do that yourself, hire a shop to do it for you.  You don't have to do a
> complete restoration.  Just get a good coating where it's needed, put in new
> wiring harnesses with marine electrical sealant around all the connections
> and put it back together with new fasteners & theads coated with neversieze.
> You can wash that 32 till the cows come home and you won't get the salt out
> of the seams in places like between the body and frame, individual sheet
> metal assemblies and under the wood body framing.  And just to make sure you
> know what to expect, the Bonneville is almost always wet, so salt sticks to
> surfaces easily.  Even when the sun "dries" it and the humidity is 10% it is
> sucking water out of the air.  And another thing...... the salt gets up into
> the air with any wind and flies around as a fine dust that gets into
> everything.  Modern vehicles have electrical systems that are fairly
> resistant to that stuff (but not completely, not even my Toyota Tacoma)  And
> most metal surfaces have some kind of coating.  Not so for vehicles made
> before the late 1970's
> Ed Weldon
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jgmagoo at comcast.net>
> To: "land-speed-digest" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:15 PM
> Subject: [Land-speed] Preventing Salt Damage & Rust>From>JGMagoo
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> > We're coming to Speedweek and driving a couple of antique vehicles. (One
> is a 1932 Ford 3-W coupe that was a 'barn find' and still has the original
> paint, etc.).
> > What are you guys recommendations for preparing these vehicles for driving
> on the salt before we arrive,  and also what are the recommendations for the
> clean-up process to prevent damage from rust and salt corrosion after we get
> home.
> > All suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
> > JGMagoo
> > Silverthorne, Colorado
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