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spraying oil to protect body

The best stuff I have ever seen or used for oiling your vehicle is called Fluid Film. They sell it in gallons or spray bombs at the John Deere dealerships. Farmers use it to lubricate chains. The Military and such use it to protect metal from salt spray. It is actually wool wax from sheep. Totally biodegradeable. Works awesome. You cut it down with a little naptha which you can get at the hardware store and spray it on with a garden sprayer. The Fluid film sticks very well and it creeps into all the little nooks and crannies like nobody's business. I did my whole truck with it-Inside the doors, fenders, up on the inner side of the box and of course the whole underside. It washes off the underside over the course of a bad winter so you might want to touch it up halfway through. All the inside places I did 3 years ago though and the fluid film is still there. It creeps in to the nooks and crannies so well that it migrates out the drain holes in the bottoms of my doors all the way around and up the side of the doors a couple of inches if I don't was the truck for a long time. And it won't eat up your rubber parts like used oil will.
 
84CUCV said:
OK thanks going to try to find this stuff.
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I have used their Rust Converter and liked their product you guys have me thinking and am considering this.

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The gallon size of T-9 works well when you have a very large area that you'd like to protect from rust.
Boeshield T-9 was designed by Boeing Aviation as a corrosion inhibitor for aircraft components. Through licensing, this product is available to consumers and businesses. Boeshield T-9 is a combination of solvents, lubricants and waxes designed for penetration, moisture displacement, lubrication and protection.
Boeshield T-9 dries to a thin waxy film that clings to metal. Because it adheres to metal so well, it works directly on exposed metal surfaces. The product can be used in two ways to prevent rust.
A thicker coating works in places where additional protection is helpful such as on hinges, chains, undercarriages, cables and on items put into storage. To apply a thicker coating, just apply it to the surface and leave it.
A thin coating works well when direct contact is made with the surface such as on cast iron table tops, garden tools and other hand tools. To use a thin coating just apply it and use a rag to remove the excess. Applications of T-9 every few months maintains the rust inhibiting barrier.
Unlike some sprays, it is safe on paint, plastics and vinyl. As an added benefit it will also loosen rusty and corroded parts.
Shipping Weight 8.0 lbs.


http://www.theruststore.com/Boeshield-T-9-Gallon-P5C4.aspx
 
So what exactly is that stuff? Oil or rust encapsulator or what? And how in the world is this applied? Spray gun? Brush? Chemical sprayer?
 
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You don't see many spray "Boeshield" signs around here...
Us rednecks use used motor oil. Cheap and effective. :bow: :bow: :bow:
 
I have a buddy who works at a garage and he keeps old motor oil for his own rigs. He has it in a pressarized cola canister. He hooks a hose up to it from his compressor and another hose comes off it he uses to spray with a simple slut off valve from the hardware store. Very messy tho. Make sure to cover the ground where you spray your rig. Alot of guys say once you spray on oil take it for a ride on a dusty dirt road. I guess the dust cakes the oil on.
 
Encapsulates the oil. It sticks to the body that way and doesn't drip/evaporate off as easily.

This is also probably why some of the products that have shown up in this thread aren't oils as much as they are jellies or pastes.
Come to think about it our '03 Grand Vitara had a bunch of stuff on the undercarriage and undersides that would fit that description.
 
AJMBLAZER said:
Encapsulates the oil. It sticks to the body that way and doesn't drip/evaporate off as easily.

This is also probably why some of the products that have shown up in this thread aren't oils as much as they are jellies or pastes.
Come to think about it our '03 Grand Vitara had a bunch of stuff on the undercarriage and undersides that would fit that description.
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Porsche uses a waxy coating on the underside and rocker areas of their cars called "cosmoline" IIRC. Slightly yellowish tint and not easy to remove.
 
I'm more than familiar with cosmoline...


...got a 64 year old Soviet carbine sitting behind me covered in the stuff.:crazy:
 
Greg72 said:
Porsche uses a waxy coating on the underside and rocker areas of their cars called "cosmoline" IIRC. Slightly yellowish tint and not easy to remove.
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My 1980 Z28 was rust proofed with a similar product by a company called Tuff-Coat Dynall It worked good but they needed to spray it better. When I tore the car down (after a year) I applied my own under coating.

Their stuff was a yellowish milky type wax stuff.
 
Fluid film

A LOT OF GUYS I KNOW USE FLUID FILM. IT COMES IN SPRAY CANS OR CAN BE BOIGHT IN GALLONS AND APPLIED WITHA SHOOTS (sp?)
UNDERCOATING SPRAY GUN
 
Subscribed. I gotta look into some of this. We got snow last friday in the mornin just a bit. Time to decide if im buyin a winter beeter or look into some rust prevention for the blazer
 
Winter beater. No amount of protection short of encasing the whole body and frame in Rhino Liner or something similar will completely stop the rust. Then you'd still have to deal with the crappy interior drainage areas.
 
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