Rust on HiLift

[KidVermicious]

Can't winch with a bottle jack.

But you're right, they're sketchy in the best of situations. Once I've got a power winch, I plan to switch to an exhaust jack.

 

[Intruder]

Rant not aimed at you - just posers.

Live and let live. Honestly, there are things people do to their trucks that I think are hideous or ridiculous but since it isn't my truck I just let it slide. If someone wants to lift their mall crawler and put 35s on it, then all the power to them. Their truck, their money.

Anyhow, as for the actual topic, I have one of the neoprene covers and it's pretty handy for keeping grit out of it. I only mount the jack if I'm going off road and sometimes there's a lot of gravel and dirt roads to get from the highway to the trail head. The jack will still work with grit in the mechanism, but it makes an already temperamental tool even more of a hassle.

 

[homeyclaus]

I am not hot on posers either.

Aside from that, get some Rust-o-leum cold galvanizing spray. It does just what the name says, and also reacts with the existing rust to form a protective coating. In Canada (yeah, I know, what do igloo-dwellers know) I coated the exhaust manifolds of my Chevy Caprice with that stuff, and they stayed the same color for 6 years of driving.

I am also a fan of rust-o-leum black enamel. Kind of rubbery, but it works.

 

[phillyd2]

Rant not aimed at you - just posers.

Ha ha. We know we must be in trouble when a engineer needs to tell us what's cool and uncool. :nerd:

 

[tlflow]

wire wheel and rattle can it.

 

[4ShoreRunner]

The bottom of my jack doesn't seem to be rusting at all, but my handle rusted pretty quickly. I sanded it down and painted it with rustoleum.

 

[Wakeborder556]

lol @ phillyd for making a thread about a rusting piece of exposed metal on the top of his RIG

 

[Wepps]

seattle mike was a prime example of someone who put balls to the walls with a stock 4runner. albeit it was a TE and not a sr5 :hungry:

i'm not a big fan of putting vaseline on metal stuff, prefer spray on lubricants like jig-a-loo as i think they do a better job.:nerd:

Hey!!! I wheel mine and have the pin striping to prove it!:biggrin2:

 

[Titanpat57]

wow, are some of you going across the Amazon Basin or something?

I LOL'd.......

bigtime....

 

[phillyd2]

lol @ phillyd for making a thread about a rusting piece of exposed metal on the top of his RIG

"charcoal metallic powder-coat finish"

But still a funny post. :banana: