Painting the bottom of the Rover with used motor oil....

[greasyhandsagain]

I keep wanting to do this. What a nasty messy thing it would be but *I keep wanting to do this*

[brucejohn]

Isn't the other way to say that: driving my rover?

[gudjeon]

I'm going to try this recipe this year:

http://www.geocities.com/wallaces_21/waxoyl.htmll

Oil on the underside keeps water/salt out all right enough. It likes to spatter up the back of the tail/hatch and/or door. Don't tell anyone from fisheries you do this before crossing any creeks now.

[LaneRover]

I keep wanting to do this. What a nasty messy thing it would be but *I keep wanting to do this*

People have done that for years on all sorts of vehicles. Sometimes on axles and springs to keep them rust free. The problem with Rovers is that it is hard to get it all over where you need it the most which is inside the chassis.

Brent

[BackInA88]

Get a $20 pump up sprayer from the garden section of Wally World.
Works great to refill the trans on a DII as well.

Steve

[Mercedesrover]

Used oil will make a smelly, dirty mess.

Make a 3:1 mixture of NEW 10w/30 motor oil and kerosene and apply it out of a potato sprayer or a pump spray bottle. I keep a spray bottle of this around all the time and use it on my tractors and implements as well. Works like a charm.

[amcordo]

Don't forget to put out your cigarette before putting it on.

[graniterover]

Used oil will make a smelly, dirty mess.

So you're saying we won't notice it, right?

[Mercedesrover]

So you're saying we won't notice it, right?

What? Your trucks leak oil?

[thixon]

Mine doesnt leak. Oh wait, its not currently running.

[kevkon]

Besides the mess involved, used motor oil can contain a lot of elements that are actually corrosive. Also, the very nature of oil makes it less than ideal to stay on the very surfaces you want to protect most ( that's why Waxoyl was invented). There are too many better alternatives for protection out there and many are not very expensive.

[TSR53]

I would suggest not to fritz around and waste your valuable time and money crafting up a solution. Waxoyl your Land Rover and be done with it.

I Waxoyl'd my 2006 MINI Cooper S before last winter, best thing I could have ever done. Full story here >>

http://www.tsrennsport.com/weblog/?page_id=404

[pisten-bully]

Bar and chain oil is what lots of oil undercoaters use in Vermont. Some chain oil formulas contain paraffin, I know one guy who heats it first to get some flow.

It will drip until it "sets".

[Mercedesrover]

I would suggest not to fritz around and waste your valuable time and money crafting up a solution. Waxoyl your Land Rover and be done with it.

With all due-respect, Waxoyl is great for new, clean, un-rusted surfaces and offers good protection in that capacity. It acts like any quality wax-based rustproofing/undercoating at sealing over your nice new and clean panels and keeping the water and such out. But for old, dirty, rusty things all it does is cover things up. People tend to think it's the end all-be all because you spray it on and everything is nice and black and shiny. Meanwhile things are continuing to corrode and rust underneath. A good coat of oil sprayed on twice a year will seep into all the seams and cracks, keep the water off of everything and slow down the rust and corrosion. It won't make it go away, but it will keep it from getting worse. I have farm implements that stay out in the weather year-round that I've done this to, and they look as good now as they did 10 years ago.

It's not that I think Waxoyl is a bad product...I actually think it's pretty good. But I do think that people are using it in the wrong application and will be very disappointed in a few years when it peels off along with all the rust underneath it.

[Bostonian1976]

I have the answer.

Get a distributor that doesn't quite fit right, then drive at highway speeds.

Nicely coats the underside with fresh oil

Truth be told, I really think this has kept my frame and components in rust-free shape.


Try the Waxoyl - I've heard great things on it