Had so much fun cleaning the Monte's frame and finding clean 32 year-old steel, and then wondered why: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...g-circa-1982-and-where-can-i-get-some.671910/
Factory Frame Coating
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Funny how the older frames held up so long. The 03 Tahoe that we used to own had rust all over it. Same with the 05 Silverado I had. What really makes me chuckle is going through the junk yards and seeing nice rust free brake lines on the older cars. Boy, things have changed. LOL
I got that crap on my 2010 GMC truck frame. That was one thing they "touted" that they had a factory wax coating on the frame. Which IDGAF since I live in South Carolina. Big rust risk here. haha But I get it. If you're up north, you can appreciate anything that's stuck to the frame that won't trap moisture and repels it. When I was stationed on the sub going through overhaul in the Portsmouth Navel Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, I saw all sorts of horrid rust on fairly new cars at the time. Scary! If you had a southern car with no rust up that way, you could sell it for a pretty penny. Maybe that's why they didn't care if you had a title for a car over 10 years old in NH at that time...
More G-body frames have rusted out behind the rear wheels than anyone would like. Shame actually. The 87 got some sort of rustproofing when new but I haven't really delved into that too much, but it was a good way to document the mileage along the way when they did their annual "checkup" when the original owner had it. One year I think the car was driven less than 500 miles or some crazy crap. My 85 442 got the brown looking dealer goo/wax like crap. Again, living in SC it was kind of stupid IMO. That's coming off when I get the body off the frame.
More G-body frames have rusted out behind the rear wheels than anyone would like. Shame actually. The 87 got some sort of rustproofing when new but I haven't really delved into that too much, but it was a good way to document the mileage along the way when they did their annual "checkup" when the original owner had it. One year I think the car was driven less than 500 miles or some crazy crap. My 85 442 got the brown looking dealer goo/wax like crap. Again, living in SC it was kind of stupid IMO. That's coming off when I get the body off the frame.
The cadaver I used for the Monte had pretty regular undercoating done and the frame and floors have held up ok. Behind the chrome... some issues were revealed. But for a Canadian car it ain't bad. It will live a privileged life from here on out.
You can still eat off the frame in our '07 TBSS (after you wipe it down) thanks to Krown.
You can still eat off the frame in our '07 TBSS (after you wipe it down) thanks to Krown.
Common thing with the Land Rover crowd here in Europe is steel rope grease like it's used for crane or cable car ropes. Works pretty good if you consider that a LR Defender frame is usually dust in less than 10 yrs without any aftermarket coating.
That stuff will destroy a flap disc in no time flat, a wire wheel seems to do a good job of removing it though.
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