Squint_Eastwood
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Just don't get it on your exhaust, highly flammable grease fire warnings in the MSDS
What not to spray fluid film on.
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Just don't get it on your exhaust, highly flammable grease fire warnings in the MSDS
brillo_76
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In the aerosol can it contains propellants. The propellants are highly flammable. Is fluid film slightly flammable yes. However, mostly things cant be welded on when they are extremely flammable.
Yet I have welded through fluid film and it burns super slowly as it evaporates off the steel.
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redshift83
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This may be possible, but I've covered the driver's side manifold with it while trying to coat the UCA pivot and have no ill effects to report. Smoked a bit and smelled even worse than non-burning FF, but no fire.
dogtail
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I've been spraying my rig with WD40 for years, so my coating is pretty much infused. Def works great for a rust barrier when done right.
VernySanders
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oh my goodness!!!! I'm not at all playing into a stereotype, however, female drivers out here make me so angry. They think cause they have awd they can go a million miles an hour and then cry and want a pitty party when they end up in the ditch. People in the midwest can barely drive in a severe rainstorm let alone snow LOL. My grandparents live in Montana, so im familiar with the sand and gravel. Sand and gravel actually makes sense and doesnt corrode away vehicles and water pipes underground lol.
tvpierce
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It's not going to catch fire. It will just smoke a good bit the first time the exhaust gets up to operating temp.
I once tried coating an exhaust pipe and muffler with boiled linseed oil to see if it would curtail rust. I knew it would mostly burn off, but wanted to see if the residue left behind would keep the rust at bay. It did create smoke and burned off as expected, but didn't provide any noticable rust protection.
This tip is from a completely different forum but worth sharing.
If you really want to put a layer of protection on your exhaust, treat it as you would cast iron cookware. Using an old tube sock, put the sock on your hand and soak it with peanut oil. Now coat the exhaust with the peanut oil (yeah, disclaimer here - make sure the metal is cool. Duh). Warm it up, cool it down and repeat a few times. Sounds silly, but it does work pretty well.
I haven't done this to my 3rd gen, but I have to other exhausts (headers) with good results.
my hub wasn't rusty 4 months ago when i put some fluid film on it, I do live next to a brackish river by the ocean with high humidity, but I don't drive in saltwater and no road salt here
This does not qualify as rust haha, that is nothing! You could remove that by spitting on it lol. I have more surface rust on my brake rotors in the summer up here in Canada from washing my runner in the evening and leaving it parked until next morning. You don't know what rust is....is this a joke?
brillo_76
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I think that user might actually be serious that fluid film failed to do what its supposed to as to referring to it as goats milk and it's made from animal fat.
I just hope that user wasnt making fun of users for using it etc. As that's a severe violation of rule 3 of forum rules.
For what the product is and if used properly. It dosent cause any rust. That much I am certain of. Well at least in the application I used it for it does its job and is completely non toxic.
I also have yet to have any animals chewing it. All my undercarriages are intact.
So it's better then that soy based insulation the the environmentalists want car mfg to use now. Man the wild animals love that stuff. Maybe it's the natural protein from soy that makes them crave it. In any case, I know I be sure to post a thread on the forum if the animals clean my undercarriages off and eat all the wires off from the lanolin base. As it's a major misconception that lanolin contains glycerides and is a primarily consists of sterol esters instead. But what do we know.
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Jidaran
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Not sure which is more likely:
- Squint Eastwood gets his kicks trolling auto forums, while also posting helpful advice just to keep people on their toes.
- Squint Eastwood is part of a stealth marketing campaign, posting misinformation about Fluid Film (it's flammable, made from animal fat, causes rust) and advocating for using Eastwood products instead.
- Squint Eastwood just really really hates Fluid Film.
- Squint Eastwood gets his kicks trolling auto forums, while also posting helpful advice just to keep people on their toes.
- Squint Eastwood is part of a stealth marketing campaign, posting misinformation about Fluid Film (it's flammable, made from animal fat, causes rust) and advocating for using Eastwood products instead.
- Squint Eastwood just really really hates Fluid Film.
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brillo_76
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Lol. I guess that's one way to look at it.
I just find it bizarre.
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brillo_76
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Nothing wrong with a clean chassis. It amazing what the different environments do to the chassis. I can show you one with 80% of the frame rails rotted away...So... No chassis paint love?
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Kanoe
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So... No chassis paint love?
OOH. That's pretty. Jealous. Not much salt exposure I'm guessing.
phattyduck
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And what those of us in Southern California call lightly cleaned.That what the rust belt calls frame porn..
:surfer:
-Charlie
brillo_76
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jross20
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Minor light brown areas here and there. I just wiped everything down with acetone and then went crazy with some chassis paint I got from summit racing. So far the stuff seems pretty good. *Fingers crossed*
Slowly but surely I've been hitting more areas on the frame as I find them. Very tiny little light rust spots. Generally I have to look to find them. My plan is to eventually repaint the whole frame when I have time. Just to keep her nice and safe.
I also got some internal frame coating and painted the inside of the frame...pipe thing, the one above the rear axle. Although honestly it's really hard to see in there if I got it well enough.
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