If you are anywhere near Canada, go to Krown Rust Control place (I prefer this to RustCheck) EVERY year (seems these companies are NOT in USA). A well spent $100 CDN$ at that. Every year I take my van in for the "job" and every other year I take my westy apart (take out all cabinets and panels) and have all the rust inhibiting oil sprayed in every crevice. Not withstanding this, (I'm the 4th owner) there was rust in a few places: The horizontal panels on each side of the engine (under each air intake grill) is a natural for rust and the starting point for dreaded seam rust. I go at that area every month or so with a squirt bottle of the anti-Rust oil. Good luck. Malcolm On 24 Nov 2001, at 8:32, developtrust wrote: I'm going to do regular body inspections for rust as long as I own my Vanagon to keep the body rust free. Does anyone have any tips on preserving an already virtually rust free vehicle? My neighbor did not know what naval jelly was when I was treating the rust on my bumper hitch getting it ready for paint. Now I wish I had just taken it off and powder coated it. I may yet do that. That naval jelly is marvelous. It may take several applications and a wire brush to help it work into the rusted area but it eats away rust down to the bare metal so well. It just takes patience. I feel very fortunate to have bought a van whose original owner was European who knew how to take care of the body of that vanagon. So little rust it was almost perfect when I bought it.
William
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