Engine Protection - Rust
Discussion
With the damp weather well and truly here, is the a decent solution to preventing rust in the engine bay.
- Obvously in an idea world it would all be painted and alumium and shiny.
- However in practice its not, and theres rust all over the show, geting worse.
So whats an affective protection method.
- Im thinking spray it all in wd40 or simular, but idealy somthing a bit better?
- Is silicon spray a good idea, or else just go mad and spray i all with sumpoil?
I had a mate with a series landy. The oil filler cap came off on the motorway once.
- Made a right mess, thick black diesal engine oil everywhere. But it didnt rust in there again.
Thoughts?
Daniel
- Obvously in an idea world it would all be painted and alumium and shiny.
- However in practice its not, and theres rust all over the show, geting worse.
So whats an affective protection method.
- Im thinking spray it all in wd40 or simular, but idealy somthing a bit better?
- Is silicon spray a good idea, or else just go mad and spray i all with sumpoil?
I had a mate with a series landy. The oil filler cap came off on the motorway once.
- Made a right mess, thick black diesal engine oil everywhere. But it didnt rust in there again.
Thoughts?
Daniel
What car is it?
If theres rust showing there is a special product which you paint over bare metal to stop it rusting, you just clean the rust off and paint this special product on.....Can't remember it's name.......Oh damn it.......Oh yes! Paint
Wd ends up attracting water, silicone spray is the work of the devil, by all means spray oil over it if you want a minging dirty, dusty, smelly dripping engine bay.
If theres rust showing there is a special product which you paint over bare metal to stop it rusting, you just clean the rust off and paint this special product on.....Can't remember it's name.......Oh damn it.......Oh yes! Paint
Wd ends up attracting water, silicone spray is the work of the devil, by all means spray oil over it if you want a minging dirty, dusty, smelly dripping engine bay.
dhutch said:
With the damp weather well and truly here, is the a decent solution to preventing rust in the engine bay.
- Obvously in an idea world it would all be painted and alumium and shiny.
- However in practice its not, and theres rust all over the show, geting worse.
So whats an affective protection method.
- Im thinking spray it all in wd40 or simular, but idealy somthing a bit better?
- Is silicon spray a good idea, or else just go mad and spray i all with sumpoil?
I had a mate with a series landy. The oil filler cap came off on the motorway once.
- Made a right mess, thick black diesal engine oil everywhere. But it didnt rust in there again.
Thoughts?
Daniel
Regular spraying with WD40 should keep things at bay,just the metal bits though.- Obvously in an idea world it would all be painted and alumium and shiny.
- However in practice its not, and theres rust all over the show, geting worse.
So whats an affective protection method.
- Im thinking spray it all in wd40 or simular, but idealy somthing a bit better?
- Is silicon spray a good idea, or else just go mad and spray i all with sumpoil?
I had a mate with a series landy. The oil filler cap came off on the motorway once.
- Made a right mess, thick black diesal engine oil everywhere. But it didnt rust in there again.
Thoughts?
Daniel
wildoliver said:
What car is it?
Its just a highmilage 306 im thinking about in question.- All the body work etc is fine, all the nuts/bolts/brackets/hoseferrels etc are just rusting away!
- Obvously i could cleaning each part down and derust/convert it, painting, shine it, polish it.
- But its really not worth it, i just would like a bit less of it to rusting quite so muchlymuch!!
Daniel
wildoliver said:
What car is it?
If theres rust showing there is a special product which you paint over bare metal to stop it rusting, you just clean the rust off and paint this special product on.....Can't remember it's name.......Oh damn it.......Oh yes! Paint
Wd ends up attracting water, silicone spray is the work of the devil, by all means spray oil over it if you want a minging dirty, dusty, smelly dripping engine bay.
POR-15If theres rust showing there is a special product which you paint over bare metal to stop it rusting, you just clean the rust off and paint this special product on.....Can't remember it's name.......Oh damn it.......Oh yes! Paint
Wd ends up attracting water, silicone spray is the work of the devil, by all means spray oil over it if you want a minging dirty, dusty, smelly dripping engine bay.
Yeah, i;ve head a lot of good stuff about por-15, its just a case that much of whats rusting doesnt really want to be painted.
- As i say, its just ferreled ends, little metal clips and brackets.
I might just leave it, but it greves me a little even if she is just another 306 with rather to many miles on the clock to ever have any resale value.
- As i say, its just ferreled ends, little metal clips and brackets.
I might just leave it, but it greves me a little even if she is just another 306 with rather to many miles on the clock to ever have any resale value.
There's some stuff that the Navy use to slow down the rusting of their Submarines. The surface of the steel turns black, and it seems to last pretty well to IME.
Might be called Vactan.
In fact it is called Vactan:
http://www.paco-systems.co.uk/vactan.html
It's cheap too, only £11 for a half litre.
HTH
Might be called Vactan.
In fact it is called Vactan:
http://www.paco-systems.co.uk/vactan.html
It's cheap too, only £11 for a half litre.
HTH
japhilip said:
There's some stuff that the Navy use to slow down the rusting of their Submarines. The surface of the steel turns black, and it seems to last pretty well to IME.
Might be called Vactan.
In fact it is called Vactan:
http://www.paco-systems.co.uk/vactan.html
It's cheap too, only £11 for a half litre.
HTH
I was advised that they use Fertan : http://www.retro-uk.com/fertan.htmMight be called Vactan.
In fact it is called Vactan:
http://www.paco-systems.co.uk/vactan.html
It's cheap too, only £11 for a half litre.
HTH
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