[AT] Muffler Rust Prevention???

[Dave Merchant]

Sort of an interesting thought about painting manifolds, considering how 
hard to get some of them are.

Has anybody had experience with this?

Dave Merchant


At 12:43 PM 5/24/2007, william.neff.powell at comcast.net wrote:
>Kind of truck related, but tractor related also.
>
>I was wondering what the best method is for protecting an exhaust system?
>
>My 1985 Ford F250 Diesel gets about 2000 miles per year on it. It sits 
>outside and while examining the 3 year old exhaust system I noticed that 
>it is oxidizing heavily....
>
>My grandfather had a taxi business for 50 years, he rarely had exhaust 
>issues,because the cars were always running the mufflers never got around 
>to rusting...
>
>
>Should I get some silver high heat paint? Is it going to make a 
>difference? Or is it waste of time because it will burn off...?
>
>I have sprayed my Allis Chalmers mufflers from time to time, I think it 
>helps, the stay painted for a while....
>
>How about manifolds? Does anyone paint their manifolds?
>
>Regards,
>
>Will Powell
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