Anyone else disappointed with how fast there cabs rusting?I need cab corners and under the cabs looking crusty...the bottoms of my doors are starting. I know shes an 02 but damn. I wash the salt off it with hot water after a snow or at least go and use the pay and spray wash. Anyone else on here having bad luck?
I have an 02 also and only place I noticed anything is on the insides front doors at bottom where there are drains and little spots on taillgate drains.
I did door bottoms on my 03.. The northeast tears them up pretty fast.. I spent $1K on my 03 and my brother just had to do some body work on his 02 24V and it cost him 5K so what does that tell ya..LOL
Cab corners are next, followed by ext cab doors which aren't looking so hot on the bottom. Under the cab is very solid, as is the frame. Oh, and I took those pics of the bed as I removed it to put a new one on.
Hate to break it to you, but that rust is coming from the back side. Poke that bubble with something, and it'll go right through. Ford designed the trucks to rust out above the wheel wells. There is a foam strip between the layers of sheet metal.
THATS WHY MY TRUCK HAS THE FLATBED. The cross member rotted threw completely the only thing holding the bed up was my 5th wheel hitch bracket. and the wheel wells started to bubble
Yeah, mine was bad. It had the shakey shakeys, especially with the toolbox. When I took the bed off, I went to cut the old one up. Made two vertical cuts on the front wall, and it fell right out.
THATS WHY MY TRUCK HAS THE FLATBED. The cross member rotted threw completely the only thing holding the bed up was my 5th wheel hitch bracket. and the wheel wells started to bubble
That's the plan, last fall it got the same treatment, going to do it again this week providing the weather is decent enough and I can make room in the shop. 3 big truck bays and never enough room...LOL
Though salt is bad calcium is worse by far. We contract plow a small town here in Maine and there is no way around salt on the main line, however the back roads are salt sand mix. Salt on the back roads is more or less just to make the sand "stick" to the road. The state dot seems to be using more calcium then anything, hardly ever see sand on state maintained roads any longer. I noticed a big difference in how things rusted after calcium became so popular.
I'll try to snap some picks of our plow truck, all ford's(L-8000's and L-9000's) so will it apply?
What stinks about them is they only run in the worst weather, They get steam cleaned every spring and pressure washed after most every storm, but they seem to loose a little weight over the bumps every year.
ah! don't you just love that imported steel?
I remember growing up as a boy and seeing all those big cars with the big rust holes from Michigan and other northern states, they would come down to Florida in the winter and pay to watch my cousin wrestle his dog who was dressed up as an alligator.
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