chassis treatment
Discussion
my plan is to steam clean the chassis with a industrial cleaner an leave to dry,then clean the surface rust the best i can .i can use a freinds 4 poster ramp .i don`t know what product to use , being looking at different paints ,there are many types on the market .ive looked at
- jenoseal and a top coat of re-paint top coat ace or epoxy two packs .can any one give me any advice
You could get lots of different answers to this,there are so many different preferences.Personally i would use Por15 and a few layers of waxoyl flexible underseal,followed by normal waxoyl on the outriggers,then annualy wash the outriggers and re-apply normal waxoyl.If you find that other chassis areas,ie diff cage are also in poor shape,treat the same way.For the backbone,and other low corrosion areas,just Por 15 and ordinary waxoyl should be fine.YHM by the way 
If anyone is interested Bilt Hamber http://www.bilthamber.com/ are launching a waxoyl type product in the next few weeks.
Their other products come out very well in comparison tests.
Their other products come out very well in comparison tests.
Wildfire said:
I would go with POR15, followed by Valvoline Tectyl personally. If you are planning on doing it yourself. If not give 450Nick a shout. He had a company do his Chassis and it looks really good.
Hey Chris! Yeah I had www.chassisclean.co.uk do mine and I was very impressed with the result. For around £300 (can't remember exact amount), they had the car for 3 days and gave it the full treatment. This is explained pretty well on their website here: http://www.chassisclean.co.uk/process.htmlAfter 12 months, the underside of mine still looks very smart and according to Richard of Chassisclean, it shouldn't need renewing for 2-3 years based on heavy all weather use (5+ if only using lightly or only on sunny days). So overall great service, reasonable price and a very thorough neat job. I will be using them again next winter for a top up
My view is that if you look at all of the rusted chassic pics in lots of threads over time the really rotten bits are the areas where you cant see. i.e. the corners where the plates are and the tubes that connect at the corners of the outriggers. This rot can't be down to stone chipping the coating but must be down to crap/road dirt accumulating in the areas above the plates and keeping these areas damp. So we all could argue about what is the best product to use but IMO the most important point is to regulary clean all of the areas where this crap can gather. The bottom of these plates may have surface rust but probably wont rot from the bottom.
I believe that if these places are regulary kept clean and coated with any of the products mentioned then you stand a reasonable chance of keeping a rot free chassis longer, some may be better at this than others.
Of course there are places where you cant see and cant get to easily so perhaps we are all just prolonging the inevitable.
But with the recent Sportmotive solution it gives us another realistic option. All of course IMHO.
Just painted my outriggers with Hammerite and sprayed with Waxoyl after claeaning as best I could the areas I have mentioned. Could be kidding my self but its looks good and it made me feel better.
Trev
Put POR15 on the wishbones and 3 years later with daily use (approx 30,000 miles) not a mark on them, in fact if you ruyb the dirt with your finger there is a shiny coat below. Is a PITA to put on and you need a couple of coats, but once on you don't need anything else. Prep is everything as ever.
FFG
FFG
Edited by FlipFlopGriff on Thursday 16th October 12:24
Both Chassisclean and Sportmotive are pretty far north. Anyone know of a similar service further south? Would like to get this done, but not confitent enough to do myself and a trek all the way up to Manchester to drop her off and another a few days later to pick up is somewhat unappealing from Herts...
Nick
Nick
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