In another thread, I've been talking about a SoCal truck I've shipped to my house in Ohio. It's never been Ziebarted, since it lived in Corona, where it doesnt snow. I need to get it protected, or it will rust in short time.

What products do you use? Bear in mind that it will be parked on concrete, so I don't want to use anything that drips for days after applying.

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I preffer grease and oil heated up and sprayed on. Then some time spent of a really dusty road to give it more body. So it stays on. The damage from the environment is much worse up here in eastern Canada . I like the ideal of a long tube down through the window seals to add petroleum products or a mix in the bottom of the doors as well. Tape off the water drains and let the stuff spread in there . Before taking the tape off and draining. A lot easier than taking the door panel off and I never liked the ideal of spraying in there. Through holes. Petroleum products creep and protect the best I think.


Drill and cheap sealiing caps to get into any sealed areas. I think a product called waxoil may have been okay but do not know much about it. At worse you want something that does not have to be redone every year. Just touched up if the need is there. Zeibart outlets died around here but I do not know why.


I own the air driven hydraulic pump setup that goes on the supplied perhaps 30 gallon bucket. It sprays the grease and graphite mix at 2000-3000 pounds pressure from the nozzle. It probably is no longer available and the product may be really expensive today if it were. . Too messy to work on later without steaming the area off. It really did the job though.


Never apply anything to older leaf springs. If a person health or age or whatever generally myy a rust free eans they farm the job out. Ask around on who does a decent job in your area. You are absolutly right though that they should be done with at least something. Especially a nice rust free southern truck moved into the rustbelt.

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When I was young, lubricating leaf springs was an annual Fall event....

On the rare occasion I take a leaf spring pack apart I always applied graphite grease between the leaves or Teflon here in the Desert .

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1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I've never used these products, but here ya go:

https://www.waxoyl-usa.com/

https://www.wurthusa.com/Chemical-Product/Protective-Wax/Cavity-Wax/c/141601

https://www.fluid-film.com/

Stagecoaches where before my time.

We saw some leaf breakage after they were done. Spray saturated but not taken apart. Might have had somehing to do with the severe rusting reducing the normal sliding action. I just do not know.

LOL ! .

Often the leaves when left un lubricated for years, will wear deep grooves in the leaves .

It's possible and very thrifty to build up spring packs from multiple old leaf springs .

Never, EVER bead / sand blast any spring .

I learned a handy trick when working on 'A' Model Fords : use strips of Teflon, very inexpensive and makes those old stiff springs ride *much* softer without loosing the proper support ~ this works on any leaf spring, lots and lots of labor though .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Fluid film for the win. Very good results from religious application.

Hell no on zeibart. No thanks to drilling dozens of holes in factory painted sheet metal.

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I had a 1999 Expedition for almost eight years/94,000 miles, which was a daily driver in the Northeast. Trouble spots for rust were the areas at the bottom of the doors, where the exterior door skin is wrapped over the interior door shell, and the rear quarter panels above the wheel openings. Everything else held up well. If I had a crystal ball in 1998, when I took delivery of the vehicle, I would have pulled off the interior door panels and sprayed the inside of the bottom of the doors with some form of rust preventative of a thin consistency, letting it drip into the area where the inside door shell and exterior door skin meet, taking care to not block the drain holes.

Move somewhere that doesn't suck.

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And where is this place you speak of ? .

I'm in Los Angeles more or less and vehicles still rust here oddly enough and we hardly ever get rain or snow .

Many think it sucks here, especially those who've never been here and are intensely jealous .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Thats ok, let them keep thinking that.

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Try Eagle Springs NC.

Leaving Boston in a few months (with all my cars) for the welcoming climes of NC.

Just my $0.02

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1992 500SEL 25K
1995 E320 40K
1995 SL600 120K
2002 JX8 Sport 43K
2005 Volvo S40 95K
2006 Isuzu NPR 304K (Frankencamper)
2007 Crown Victoria 150K
2014 Smart Electric 20K

This. Salaries are low, housing prices are beyond sky high. Crime is rampant in all areas of Los Angeles, even in the high end neighborhoods. Population: somewhere north of 17 million idiots. Taxes off the hook. Crooked cops, gangs all over town, etc etc.

I'm aware of several fortune 500 companies that REFUSE to have a presence within California for tax reasons alone.

About the only thing I'll say positive is there are some very hot looking women to be seen on the beaches.

Moving van rental companies, i.e. Uhaul, Penske, Budget, Enterprise, etc have raised their rental rates due to the high rate of demand by people leaving California. When it comes to living in Cali, the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence.

hm bull**** again .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better