My first F-Body!
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Yeah that's nutso clean! Here in the salty road "rust belt" of the midwest, you're doing good to have floors that don't have rust holes in them. Of course, if the car was summer only driven here, it'll be more rust free.
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Nice car!! Look up "rust doctor". It's much better than rubbrtized undercoating if that's what you were planning. Also food for thought, I prefer to lower the tank and do the fuelpump replacement the correct way. Those cars are week as it is for flexing. Not only is cutting the hole dangerous for the inexperienced, but it also weakens the chasis, even when you patch it. I know a lot of people suggest that way, but their is a reason that legitimate repair facilities do not do it that way. Besides, how often does a pump go bad if you use a good pump? It's worth t to do it correctly and maintain the integrity of your vehicle instead of cutting it apart to take a short cut that you'll only do once in a while. Everyone has their way and their own opinion. I'm just giving mine. Best of luck with whatever you decide.
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In the Staging Lanes
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3 years ago I had a 1999 Dodge transported from NH. It was $500 for the transport but the car was given to me by a relative because he wasn't using it. is aid I'd fix the head gasket and give it to one of my kids.
When replacing the brakes, the brake lines kept breaking so I ended up replacing those.
When changing the fuel filter the fuel line was borderline so I replaced the fuel lines.
A lug broke off so I had to change that. When i started to get ready to remove the exhaust I looked at that..............I junked the car. The entire underneath was basically being eaten away. Not the body, but every fastener, line etc
under carriage washes are very important up north and I could swear this car never had one
TO the OP
put a piece of cardboard underneath the entire tranny and engine at night and in the morning look to see if there any drips.
I'm not wishing it upon you but me thinks you'll see a drip
When replacing the brakes, the brake lines kept breaking so I ended up replacing those.
When changing the fuel filter the fuel line was borderline so I replaced the fuel lines.
A lug broke off so I had to change that. When i started to get ready to remove the exhaust I looked at that..............I junked the car. The entire underneath was basically being eaten away. Not the body, but every fastener, line etc
under carriage washes are very important up north and I could swear this car never had one
TO the OP
put a piece of cardboard underneath the entire tranny and engine at night and in the morning look to see if there any drips.
I'm not wishing it upon you but me thinks you'll see a drip
I'll put some cardboard under the car tomorrow. I hope there is no drips!
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In the Staging Lanes
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Wow, the underside is clean! I may rethink the WD-40 and PB Blaster and use Simple Green!
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In the Staging Lanes
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Nice car!! Look up "rust doctor". It's much better than rubbrtized undercoating if that's what you were planning. Also food for thought, I prefer to lower the tank and do the fuelpump replacement the correct way. Those cars are week as it is for flexing. Not only is cutting the hole dangerous for the inexperienced, but it also weakens the chasis, even when you patch it. I know a lot of people suggest that way, but their is a reason that legitimate repair facilities do not do it that way. Besides, how often does a pump go bad if you use a good pump? It's worth t to do it correctly and maintain the integrity of your vehicle instead of cutting it apart to take a short cut that you'll only do once in a while. Everyone has their way and their own opinion. I'm just giving mine. Best of luck with whatever you decide.
Is this for real!?
Quote from www.therustdoctor.com
"Rust Doctor is a water based latex paint that allows you to paint over rusty metal and then topcoat with any kind of paint without the need to sand or grind to bare metal. This unique product chemically converts the rusty metal to black magnetite, which is a very hard form of iron oxide. Because magnetite is inert (will not react with moisture and oxygen), it creates a protective layer that keeps the metal from rusting. In addition, a latex primer is left on the surface, allowing for topcoating with any kind of paint. In one simple step, the rust is converted to magnetite and the surface is primed."
Have you ever used it before? If I spray my who underside and rear differential, what do you recommend coating it with?
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fuel pump
Do the hatch method. I did it and it took 45 minutes to have new fuel pump in. One big advantage of the hatch method is that your "new" pump can go bad and swapping it out the second time is even faster.
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How you figure they got an engine compartment that clean? I have cleaned my engine compartment before. I first used about 3-4 cans and multiple aplications of Gunk engine cleaner and a pressure washer hooked up to hot water then sprayed the entire thing down with Armor-all but I did not end up anywhere near like that.
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3 years ago I had a 1999 Dodge transported from NH. It was $500 for the transport but the car was given to me by a relative because he wasn't using it. is aid I'd fix the head gasket and give it to one of my kids.
When replacing the brakes, the brake lines kept breaking so I ended up replacing those.
When changing the fuel filter the fuel line was borderline so I replaced the fuel lines.
A lug broke off so I had to change that. When i started to get ready to remove the exhaust I looked at that..............I junked the car. The entire underneath was basically being eaten away. Not the body, but every fastener, line etc
under carriage washes are very important up north and I could swear this car never had one
TO the OP
put a piece of cardboard underneath the entire tranny and engine at night and in the morning look to see if there any drips.
I'm not wishing it upon you but me thinks you'll see a drip
When replacing the brakes, the brake lines kept breaking so I ended up replacing those.
When changing the fuel filter the fuel line was borderline so I replaced the fuel lines.
A lug broke off so I had to change that. When i started to get ready to remove the exhaust I looked at that..............I junked the car. The entire underneath was basically being eaten away. Not the body, but every fastener, line etc
under carriage washes are very important up north and I could swear this car never had one
TO the OP
put a piece of cardboard underneath the entire tranny and engine at night and in the morning look to see if there any drips.
I'm not wishing it upon you but me thinks you'll see a drip
I'm keeping my fingers crossed!