Picking up where I left off
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I’ll take fluid film before rust any day of the week and twice on Sunday especially in a fucked up place where brine gets sprayed on the road anytime the temp drops below 34
The thought of rust after doing that much work turned my stomach so it got a full bath of FluidFilm before leaving Vegas
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I figured that’s what you probably did.
Blaine mentioned the rear calipers and brake assemblies were rusted so bad that there is barely any good metal to weld to. Any idea why that is? The rest of the frame didn’t seem to have any rust other than surface rust in very few places.
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Wow, that’s nuts.
I didn’t get a chance to see the parts @mrblaine was talking about, but it sounds like the rust was terrible. I told him to go ahead and replace all the parts if happens to have them on hand.
I am happy I live in Arizona where this isn’t a concern.
I’d be interested to know what @mrblaine thought of the overall install of the build. I was the first rig they had ever installed the Savvy UA on so it presented its challenges to them getting the pinion and bits correct. It always performed excellent on the trail so I wouldn’t know if it was off. Only thing that ever bugged me and it’s probably minor is the Savvy GTS was always on the lower setting because they thought it would hit the evap lines. It’s only an inch but as they say......
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I don’t blame you, I wouldn’t have wanted it to sit outside with no garage.
Yeah, I would be curious to know as well. I’ll bet Blaine can fix that gas tank skid. The extra inch is only an inch but it will make a difference.
That was always my thought but I’m sure I was thinking too much into it.... I never once had it hinder me on a trail.
That can indeed make all the difference. The NE jeeps make me sad.
Especially once you build a rig exactly as you want it in the western desert only to have to move to the northeast 6 months later...
It's a great build until Chris got his hands on it, so kudos!Especially once you build a rig exactly as you want it in the western desert only to have to move to the northeast 6 months later...
Think about that some relative to the rear crossmember being moved up 1.25". The rear flange has to be in the lower position and the front one in the upper position, upper and lower relative to the height of the skid, not the holes in the flange. The rear flange has to be in the lower set of holes, the front in the upper set of holes.
This is indicative of what we are finding. Every weld that we remove paint from has serious surface rust under the paint but not into the base metal.
The aluminum bump stop cups were upside down.
Install error, weather or combination? That corrosion looks pretty extreme but I have also never looked at it as closely or would know because I never had a reason to as far as I knew.
Bump stop cups are installer error. The calipers were very rusty at one point and got the rust painted over. No idea when or who.
The cup part is so the spring retainer goes over the stock dimple in the spring perch. Then the urethane bumper sits on the flat lower part.
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