getting ready to spray some so I was watching some videos to find the best gun

and came across this , seems like good info , good theory

I know questions come up about this often enough this might answer a bunch for you

Who would have thunk.

Coonman needs to see this

part of why I posted it

a wire brush , screw driver and some cans of fluid film and some time on ramps every year

no fear of any complicated process just get it covered

I swear by the stuff...comes in Black too.

6.97 per can up here

Been in the Auto body business for 47 years...I've tried a lot of products...this stuff and waste oil ..are the only thing that seeps into cravases ...where rust hides

I have used it when replacing parts to make parts come apart again , but really didn't know about the stuff till about 2-3 years ago

used a few cans but they get 10.99 for them here

I am getting ready to order a gallon at 42 dollars and a spray gun

same gun as in the video
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0070WTGZG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2D9Y5DFCXS0QH&psc=1

see if my son wants to go halves on the gun , he has been wanting to do his truck also.

Just have to do it every October

And DO NOT get the undah carriage car wash option.

Or your defeating the purpose

And don't forget to drop the spare tire...the shops that oil around here are too lazy to drop the spare

I spray the ram every two years.

Can I spray the exterior of my trapping vechile with it?

I'd go spring and fall...with a Dodge Product

Thanks

Guss....2017 Dodge 1500 right there...

Might have had a born date in 2016....So it saw 7 wintahs....

Well I bought the gun and a gallon and did the back half of my truck and under the hood Friday
I was doing rear brakes any way so the back was up and the wheels off.

the gun works very well , got up in the doors decent through some access plugs and in the tailgate well , in the fenders and down all the stake pockets I could.

wool wax gun spraying fluid film as the gun came with 3 bottles and had good reviews

I clean the wand out with paint thinner when I was done to make sure the nozzle wouldn't clog another reason more bottles is handy
I may order some more bottles yet

fluid film is about the consistency and color of butterscotch pudding but on a 70-75 degree day loads decently with a funnel a quart paint stir stick is handy to help it along

I was doing it outside in the drive way but it wasn't as messy as I expected the gun puts it where you point and it is thick enough you don't get a ton of over spray.

an added benefit

8/31 and 9/1/2023 I spent time working on the wife's 00 expedition almost all new front end steering joints

I found my notes I did the passenger wheel hub bearing 10/22/2022 and had gotten a can of fluid film at the time and sprayed down everything around that wheel when done

working on it 8/31/2023 vs the other side was much easier to get bolts loose and didn't have to beat sockets on with a hammer to get them over the rust scale.

back in the '70's I had a buddy who's family would rust proof their cars with waste oil. They would drill holes in the doors and any where else they had to get access to the inside bottom pockets that would hold moisture..
They would use an old lp gas tank with a filler welded on and a section of air hose with your typical air gun on the end with a hunk of 2 ft long copper tube soldered on it for application.
Fill the cylinder with waste oil, hitch it up to the air compressor and spray waste oil on all over under neath and in the car. Simple and effective. They'd use several gallons of waste oil on one car.
When they were done the car was dripping oil all over the place. Then it was drive it down a gravel road and get the oil coated with dust so it would adsorb into the oil and stop the running. Also had to burn off all the oil from the exhaust.

His Dad drove a '63 Catalina that had ZERO rust on it. If you've seen a car from the early '60's ten years old after 10 Wisconsin salt cover winter roads they all were pretty much rotted out.
His Dad drove that car till the late '80's when he died and it had no rust. We changed the shocks in the early '80's on it and after scrapping away the dust/oil covering all the nuts bolts and what ever there was no rust.
The exhaust still rots away but a exhaust system for an old car is an easy afternoon job.

I can't speak about all the newer coverings but I do know that waste oil can be done very cheaply and its effective. It does not need to be done every year. Once is a decade is enough. Ever work on an old car that leaked oil? the oil covered areas are never rusted.

I have through about doing the waste oil after hearing about it , this has good cling and doesn't stink like soaking a car in waste oil

I am sure it works I would figure it needs a little more than every 10 years but maybe it is such a soaking that first time and starting with no rust

That's bad

Used oil an a cheap Harbor Freight gun. Every fall. Use about a gallon and a half.

Whats better-fluid film or honey goo?

Thanks