[RyverCat]

I just finished swapping spring on my 2005 Excursion and it was way more work than I anticipated.

My Excursion came from the mid West and has a fair amount of rust from the salt it has seen (another thing to add to the list of things to fix) and it add several hours to the swap.

I want to halt any further rust and treat my current rust issues, what have you all found that works the best?

P.S. I hated every minute of swapping out my springs but I am extremely satisfied with the results. I highly recommend the upgrade especially if you tow anything with your Excursion.

Thanks in advance,

TJ

 

[JustinOOO9]

Woolwax formerly fluidfilm. Hands down the best and heres why:


I don't own stock and don't get paid. I just use the stuff. I bought a clean rust free truck in CA because they use salt, de ice fluid, and it eats trucks here fast. Stay away from hard coats. They crack and the spray gets under the hardcoat and acts like an infected wound thats been covered up. This stuff does not dry, evaporate it goes on like a bit thinner than vasoline. the metal looks wet and has a slight tackyness. Its been used in shipyards for 50+ yrs. There are only two drawbacks I can realistically think of.

1. it does leave a film so it can get your arms dirty when working or get on clothes. It appears to wash off just fine though.

2. you have to reapply it. Spray it VERY VERY GOOD before and after each winter the first year. and just do a touch up after you gently rinse off the bottom of the truck.

I tried wd40, old motor oil, por15, csp, amsoil all work to an extent but wash off/dry out too easily. You can buy it in a jug and use their sprayer with an air compressor or about 7 cans aerosol style does a supercab shortbed f250. But buy the gallon jug, let it get warm to around 70 degrees I stuck it by a heater for about 10 minutes, pour it into the little spray gun and for me about 70spi was the best. too little pressure and its clumpy, to much pressure and it goes on too thin. Honestly I wish someone would have told me about this stuff when I was a kid. Can't tell you how many bolts got broken even after a nightly soak in pb blaster. Now I can remove brake calipers, drive lines, body mounts, plow componets without braking a thing. Again just gently rinse it off after each winter and when it gets warm spray everything. I haven't noticed any overspray cause issues on brakes, rubber, molded lines, or any not metal. I seriously love how this stuff keeps peoples vehicles from just rusting out.

last winter a buddy moved back home and his subarus subframe was rusted out so badly we had to junk it. Would have had to cut body panels off, weld braces it just wasn't worth it because of the rust. Only had like 80k miles on it too.

just google woolwax and you can buy it from vendors/amazon or directly.

 

[Hydro]

GrandPa used that stuff when I was a kid, not sure what it was called way back then but you could smell the distinct odor -- we used it to keep the plow and disk from rusting the polished metal surfaces

Didn't have a sprayer to put it on, used a paint brush -- it was the kid's job to paint the stuff on the machinery