Terracan TLC

Basicaly over the past 2 winters with all the road salt and grit, muck and dirt my rear axle and a fue surrounding components were starting to look abit tarnished, orange, a fue "flakey" bits. Im not much of a fan of this so I decided to do something about it. Local companys quoted £70 for the rear half of my vehicle to be sprayed.
I cleaned the rear underside of my vehicle, used a wire brush on the fue patches that looked flakey and the brushed off the last of the bits. I bought a 500ml of Hammerite smooth black and a paint brush for £12.99 and set out to paint the rear axle, panhard rod, anti-roll bar and a fue other metal components of the rear section of the vehicle for the next 3 hours. I applyed 2x coats of paint and im fairly happy with the result.

Before:


After:


Hopefully this will help the axle, chassis and other components against road salt&grit and off road mess.

I will be doing the front IFS next with the SuperPro bushes so ill post pics when done.

TJ

Somebody's knicked your ladder chassis!

Tom Mc wrote:

Somebody's knicked your ladder chassis!

Ha Ha


I waxoyl mine every year

I bought a cheap compressor from costco for £100.

Worth the investment if your going to do it more than once

good job wth a brush though

you should have found a good pressure washer and blasted it first that way it takes a lot of loose bits off and gets where you cant with a wire brush,,,,then do what you did,,,but what you have done will help combat the effects of winter,,,,,

Ta, all.

The chassis is still there, im pritty sure.
It would be better to get a compressor and spray it on like you mentioned but this was basicaly a test to see if i could treat the concerned areas for less than £20.
I will probably get the whole underside done next year, but for the moment in time its not really needed as the vehicle is only 7 yrs old.
Its still good to know that you can still do something on a budget.

Jas

tuggy wrote:

you should have found a good pressure washer and blasted it first that way it takes a lot of loose bits off and gets where you cant with a wire brush,,,,then do what you did,,,but what you have done will help combat the effects of winter,,,,,

EDIT: Typo, when I cleaned the underside i did use a pressure washer, works well. The amount of muck and dirt..........