by Die Judicii » 18 Nov 2016, 10:04 am
A lot of people forget the chassis itself,, ie the box section.
These can fill up with sand, mud, and chips of gravel.
The gravel and mud tend to block the small drain holes in the bottom of the box section.
If not chased and flushed out with a high pressure hose, the whole thing can eventually fill up with mud 2 or 3 inches deep.
This in turn holds moisture for longer before eventually drying out.
On newish vehicles the chassis material is now only half the thickness of what it used to be, so will eat out with rust quicker.
Dependent on the type soil this can get pretty bad pretty quick.
Some soils are actually acidic, and a lot of the red desert type stuff actually contains a lot of salt, so that too is bad news.
So it pays to keep the chassis clean an clear, cos when they are full of mud its hard work getting it out. Sometimes near impossible.
If your fourbie is not a city machine, and its not parked on a nice clean concrete floor or driveway,,,,, an old friend of mine recommended not to bother
cleaning the mud out of the chassis at all.
Instead he used to pour sump oil in and saturate the mud with it.
It just turned into a black concrete like compound that eventually went hard, and he never had to worry about rust.
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