LH Drive
10-27-2007, 06:11 PM
I was in northern Illinois the other day and saw a series 3 parked in front of an offroad shop. Naturally I decided to stop and look at it. What seamed like a sound LR passing by quickly became a basket case when I stoped to look at it :eek: . Being from south Texas where we don't see much snow I have never seen this much rust on a truck before. I was amazed that the truck was still intact. Then I discovered it had a new galvinized frame. Every place that allum and metal made contact the allum was gone, turned to powder. This made my stomach turn and wonder if this will happen to my Series if driven on the salty wet winter Mid-West roads. My original boxed frame must have been waxoyl'd some time back, it still looks like new metal inside and needs a new coat outside as it's flaking off. No holes yet or none that i've found exept on the front most part of the horns where the bumper mounts. Was thinking of just spraying my frame with more waxoyl inside and out and driving it this winter, then I saw this poor land rover and it made me make other plans. I do want to keep my LR for a long time and want to protect my investment if I ever decide to sell.
So what needs to be done in order to drive it next winter? I was thinking of taking it apart and brushing POR 15 to all steel parts and adding plastic/nylon washers to nuts/bolts. would this be overkill. What have you guys done to your daily driven winter rigs?
So what needs to be done in order to drive it next winter? I was thinking of taking it apart and brushing POR 15 to all steel parts and adding plastic/nylon washers to nuts/bolts. would this be overkill. What have you guys done to your daily driven winter rigs?