Deicer.

[obijuank5]

My 91 v3500 show truck had to drive on some unknown freshly sprayed liquid. It was being sprayed by a tank truck with 6 nozzles on the back leaving little trails on the roadway. I suspect it's deicer in prep for this weekend which is going to be our big freeze. 29 degrees. I bet the whole city shuts down.

But, is this bad for my sema build? I rinsed it off when I got home but it did sit and dry on the truck the whole day at work. What is it usually and how long does it take to get washed away?

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Definitely bad for everything on your truck, the sooner you can wash it off the better. It's a salt of some kind, some are worse than others but none are good for steel or paint.

Just a day shouldn't really hurt anything though.

 

[sweetk30]

here ya go . . . few years of road driving in the winters with that crap you you will have this .

as said lots of wash off . good cleaner also . you should be o.k.

 

[SpeedlabDan]

Potassium chloride usually. That sh*t is bad for everything! Rinse asap I even coat my brake lines and certain areas of the frame with wd40 if I know I'm going to be in it not that I would oil down a Sema build... You're really daily driving your Sema build?
Is this satirical? You bein funny right? Lol

 

[obijuank5]

Lol yeah. It's the 91. It's the best driving square I've ever had. Intermittent wipers, FOUR headlights! I'm in high cotton here, gotta take care of this truck. I'll avoid this crap in the road but I don't even want to drive my dodge if it's so nasty.

 

[SpeedlabDan]

Well they say they're not worth having if you don't drive em! I'd still avoid the brine! Here in the ne they've had the roads bribed every day for a month so I just drive my beater n take many trips to the car wash to freeze my ass off lol

 

[diesel4me]

I wipe chassis grease on my brake,tranny cooler and fuel lines with latex gloved hands,in hopes of delaying their demise from salt and rust,it does seem to help,but even the grease washes away pretty quickly after a salt bath...

One guy I know who bought a new truck spent a few days under it with a pail of grease,gear oil,and a paint brush--he greased the entire chassis and all the undersides he could get at with the brush,the gas tank,and then used a old paint gun to squirt the gear oil on the places he couldn't reach...truck stunk like sulpher for a long time,but his truck still has a rot free undercarriage..he plans to do it again next year,said 3 years is about how long it takes for most of it to wash off..

 

[AV8TER]

Here in Oregon we use magnesium chloride (MgCl2) with rust inhibitor. We don't get much snow on the west side of the state but we get a lot of freezing fog so the hiways get sprayed quit a bit. Whatever they use here (brand and so-called rust inhibiter) works pretty good. It has been used for at least 20 years now and rust isn't an issue here. The Portland area is starting to use SALT now because those city folk cant seem to figure out how to drive, or stay home, when they get an inch or two of snow. I feel bad for their cars. I've seen cars from the Mid-West and east coast that are junked from that stuff. I feel for you guys.

 

[6872xtc]

They spray mag chloride around here, i don't know that it has any rust inhibitors, but I have seen it damage stainless on trucks. What we found out wash to hit it with hot water first was the best. We used soap after the initial wash, if there was time, or if the weather was getting better. I used to come in and rinse my KW wrecker off , even at 2 A.M. to minimize the impacts of it. I don't believe that it is as bad as salt, but not good.