Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:15:13 -0500
Reply-To: Terry Kay <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
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From: Terry Kay <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
Subject: Re; Undercoating, and Bed Liner etc.
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Malcom,
I used the urethane bed liner on the bottom of my Van in 90 degree heat,
so I'm sure it was dry, and there are zero holes anywhere.
Anyone who applies any kind of finish when the surface is wet is nut's.
Bedliner is urethane based product, not asphalt or tar.
This oiling of the interior panels is OK, and I have used drained gear
oil, on other vehicles, with great sucess.
Cosmoline is the ultimate answer-----
Bed liner on top of outer panels ( wheel wells etc.) is excellent too.
In a matter of fact, Rino Hyde bed liner's advertise the use of their
product for undercoating as well as an exterior finish---go figure !
Malcolm Stebbins wrote;
Subject: Re: Another rust hot spot
I've been told to be VERY careful of the spray cans of
tar/asphalt/bedliner etc. When sprayed on new-good, painted service they
can be wonderful, but when sprayed on old, partly rusted (and perhaps
moist) surfaces (wheelwells of vanagons) they can actually trap moisture
in behind the coating and then you will not see the rusting out parts
till the whole thing falls apart. If one can get the area DRY and wire
brush off most of the surface rust, then paint the area with "rust
converter", then paint with rust--inhibiting paint, then top coat, then
your rubberized bed-liner stuff, you might have a chance, but one can
not get up in the seams/joints and that is where the Krown (oily)
rust-inhibitor stuff works very well, it wicks up into all of the
crevices and forms a barrier against the moisture. IMHO it is a well
spent CDN$110/year. For all who live along the CDN border, it is a
worthwhile annual trek. Malcolm (Halifax) On 23 Oct 2001, at 0:29, Terry
Kay wrote: Roy and other's----
I have found that if you had purchased several spray cans of black
urethane rubberized bed liner, and applied several heavy coats of it to
the mentioned problimatic area's, the rust problem would have been
drasticly curtailed.
I blew this stuff into the wheel well's, on the lower rocker seams, and
the panel under the front bumper two years ago, and it is all still rust
free.
Another proven example of better living through chemicals.:>) Later,
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Terry--
74 Campmobile- (Clementine)
85 GL- (Delilah)
86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "In life, it is much better to
want
something you cannot have---
Than to have something you can't get rid of"
(T.K.)
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