[AT] Big Truck Pickups

[Cecil Bearden]

The old Gasoline IHC Loadstar trucks were pretty rust free up to the 
windshield.  They usually rusted out at the headlights and the cab air 
vent where it came in from the bottom of the windshield through the 
Wiper motor gutter.  The engines leaked enough oil to keep everything 
sealed off underneath...  If it was a wheat truck, you started with a 
putty knife to do work underneath.
Cecil

On 12/1/2019 8:13 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Tom McCahill who wrote for Mechanix Illustrated more than once wrote 
> of the common practice in Florida, where he was living, of spraying 
> their cars all over underneath with used motor oil. I recall thinking 
> at the time (early to mid 1950's) that I would think that mechanics 
> would really hate working on those slimy under-pinnings. Normal 
> leaking oil was bad enough.
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> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:30 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Years ago I had a publication that advocated coating the interiors
>     of the bottom of doors and any other lower water holding joint
>     with used motor oil. I did try it on one car and it seemed to work.
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>     Mike Meulens AT List member (meulenms at gmx.com
>     <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>) ; Well, It'll be a long time before I
>     buy a new pickup at the prices they are at now. I have a 2010
>     Silverado with 110,000 on it, and the rust is beginning in all the
>     suspected spots, the rear wheel well being the main culprit. It'll
>     be a fender flapper in a couple of years, but as long as it's
>     reliable I'll keep it. I've heard rumors, not first hand
>     information that body shops are having a hard time learning how to
>     work on the aluminum body panels. Sure would be nice to have a
>     truck that doesn't rust out before it's service life is though.
>     You guys in the south many not have this problem, due to little or
>     no salt ever being used.  What bothers me is that my wife's Camry
>     has 70,000 more miles on it, gets driven every day in the salty
>     slush, zero rust.
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>     Phil Auten Texas AT List member (pga2 at basicisp.net
>     <mailto:pga2 at basicisp.net>); James, that video of the "empty"
>     toolbox punching a hole in the > aluminum bed floor of a Ford was
>     faked. Notice that it is no longer > shown on TV? That is why. GM
>     made a big misjudgement on that one.
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>     James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>); I have rented a Home Depot
>     flatbed >> pickup twice to carry items that would not have fit in
>     a pickup box.>> I am very impressed with them. The flat beds are
>     probably much more >> puncture proof than those aluminum ford
>     pickup boxes. There used to >> be a commercial of someone dropping
>     a tool box into a ford pickup bed >> and tearing a hole in the bed.
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