Engine bay thread. Post yours

>>16936751
How do you keep your truck so clean and rust free?

I live in the rust belt and my truck started getting surface rust after 5 years

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>>16936776
Engine bay is no good place to judge it for rust

This one has been kept decently clean for the length of the last ownership. Its first few years was spent driving around in the salty hell of Oslo and its areas, but the last 10 or so have been relatively saltless as its in my area. Still, it had a very light "coating" of rust on the underside that I've cleaned up as well as I can, sealed and properly proofed

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>>16936798
This is a good example of what it looked like before I cleaned and proofed, and after. The brown specks on the after-photo is just sand

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>>16936798
But your trucks body (If I'm recalling correctly) is rust free.

That is mind blowing considering It's age and the age of my truck. Mine is 17yo and has bad body rust and I only drive it it half the year and I've kept it immaculate since new (rinse it off every time it snows and after driving on dusty salt roads).

Already had to replace the entire exhaust from rust

>>16936798
>>16936825

Looks a little better.

God damn that must've taken weeks

>>16936866
>look at my >build< bro

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>>16936848.
It wasn't 100% rust free - the rear had a little bit of rust on it, and the front bumper had two rust spots that turned out be actual holes just held together by biscuit-rust

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>>16936856
An good afternoon & evening, and a good selection of tools, plus a mate that I appreciate more and more every day. A good lift also makes the cleaning process fucktons easier

>>16936848
Here is what the rear is currently like. I will most likely do the hatch again, and paint it completely instead of just the lower part

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>>16936848
And if you're even more curious; here is one of the holes in the front bumper. Currently just secured and filled with metal-filler, and painted with a laughably bad "Chrome effect" rattlecan. I'll probably just end up replacing the whole thing at one point, aswell as the rear hatch (its rusty on the inside I think)

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>>16936966
How long were you picking rust out of your hair?


Looks a lot better though.

I also had to replace my hatch with one from the same year white XLT. It rusted shut somehow and I had to cut though it to open the lock from inside the hatch.

I never open the hatch except the window so I guess after 4 or 5 years it rusted more and more and then rusted shut

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>>16936994
Dude, I owned a W202 Mercedes... this rust is a fucking cakewalk in comparison. Its so light and has done so little damage its joyful work

If you get it cleaned up then I recommend just spraying some sort of silicone-based lube on paper/piece of cloth and rub the where the hatch meets to prevent the rubber from sticking.

As for the locks, hinges and whatnot; high-viscosity motorcycle chain lube. Penetrates, lubricates really well and lasts for a loooong time - and it does not gather dirt and dust as much as other lubes

>>16937033
I have been using lithium grease, Seems to work. I keep opening it from time to time so that doesn't happen again.

I didn't think to lube up the rubber. Makes sense

Thanks!

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>>16937056
Lithium grease works fine - its just a hassle that you have to take apart whatever you're lubing and coat the individual parts that are in contact with eachother to make sure its greased. With the motorcycle lube you can just spray it inside and keep on spraying to ensure that it gets enough in, where it will divide itself into the different parts and coat whatever it can reach

>>16936920
>stop liking things I don't like!

>>16937066
Ah ok! I'll try that then.

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Just took this.

>>16937526
>pvc pipe
>old dirty filter


pig disgusting

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>>16937532
It's cast aluminum... And the filter isn't dirty I just closed the hood on it in the wrong position once.

>>16937526
>>16937588
Why are you breading a Miata?

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>>16936798

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In before......but but should have a rotary.

>>16937925
Id rather have people do that to rx8s desu.

>>16937925
Wouldn't a decent c5 cost less though, seems pointless when they look so similar.

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>>16937955
Agreed.

>>16937959
See pic

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>muh pushrods

>>16937977
It's only really the front, (pop-ups) and the rear window.
Anyway, I just mean't that if you want an LSx powered '90s sports car with pop ups, why not buy a c5?
It's not like fds are cheap or anything, especially not after a decent engine swap.

>>16938020
Agreed completely. The main difference is that I really wanted an FD in high school and never wanted a Corvette. Also, I can build an LS motor in my garage and have no idea what to do with a rotary, I want to put miles on my car.

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FILTH

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>>16938043
That's fair enough, half the reason the car appeals to me is the rotary, even if it is notoriously unreliable. (the rest of the appeal is obviously the amazing looks, which a v8 one still has)

>>16938020
Eh. Fd bodies can be pretty cheap these days, no where near as cheap as a miata, civic or rx8 though. About the price of a ded c5 or 240sx in nc, so around 2-6k.

>>16938123
Is that a coolant sphere on a Volkswagen

>>16938186
All Volkswagens have a coolant sphere. From my friends mk3 jetta and his mk5 gti to my mk6 jetta gli.

>>16938069
I will admit that the rotary sounds better than my LS motor. If I can in the next year or two I'd like to get another one and leave it stock.

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i always like engine bay porn

>>16938265
Kit Kat is that you?

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>>16938321
nope, I'm a different orange ford person

>>16937925
Rot in hell

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>>16937925

>simmering with rage

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>>16938695
>shimmering with blurriness

>>16938701

Yeah, can't take a decent picture for shit with this phone.

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Mine.

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i6 turbo

>>16938695
sick turbo dude

>>16940681
outback?

>>16937925
>replaced one piece of shit with a heavier piece of shit

>>16940702
Yup. 05 model

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i actually just finished painting the plenum and valve covers, and sanding the ign coil and throttle cabke brackets down to bare metal. it still looks like spaghetti mess, but way better than it did.

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I'm flow coating my last bit of clear tomorrow morning. Because fuck sanding and buffing/polishing by hand in all those tight spots.

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>>16940769
This will hopefully be getting dropped in within a few months. That's also what I said 5 months ago

>>16940694
Woah cool look at that price of plastic! So cool!

>>16940743
>ign coil and throttle cabke brackets down to bare metal.
What a waste of time. Enjoy your oxidized, dull, ugly metal in a few months that is if it doesn't rust to hell. Can't tell if it is or isn't aluminum.

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1/3

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>>16940791
2/3
Fucking 4chan flipping these images

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>>16940795
3/3, engine and coil covers are somewhere at my parents place, need to figure out what the fuck is going on whit this one and why it isn't running properly.

>>16936983
Why even bother with half assed repairs like this? It's less than half assed even. It's not some rare 50 year old vehicle literally go to a fucking pick and pull

>>16940791
that's a big motor

>>16937925

I actually like an ls swapped FD

>>16936856
>God damn that must've taken weeks
Lmao how does painting over a pitted frame rail take weeks? You think he solder filled it like a chrome bumper or something?

What'd you use to kill the rust? Por 15? Rustmort?

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Nothing special desu

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>>16940813
Grit blaster, steel brush, compressor/gun, and paint thinner to clean

Sealant was some stuff on an unmarked can that the workshop owner said worked great. Seemed like a type of penetrating oil that dried out and left a thin layer of sealant. We'll see

Top layer is just standard dissolvant-free underbody rust protector on rattlecans

Rear axle halfway through treatment

>>16940833
So you're not using any product to convert the rust? You are literally just covering it up and sealing it. I'd look into the por 15 or rustmort I mentioned, not sure how available it is in EU

Good on you for actually taking a wire wheel to the pitting though.

>>16940842
Its a tad too much to properly seal. The sealant I put on is an actual seal and it stays, but its not a converter

After cleaning it was more than smooth and clean enough for such a light treatment. If I was to be completely anal I'd remoce the propshaft, rear axle, springs and bed, completely clean with a more powerful blaster & flapdisc, repaint and then coat in protector

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Probably I should get the damn thing tuned.

>>16941047
>original
>not using the best sour cream and onion
Smh famalam

>>16941053
there appears to be part of a sour cream and onion pringle pack there as well

>>16936966

If I had a tow bar that low I wouldn't be able to get out of my drive way.

Why the hell is it so low?

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It needs a cleaning and paintjob, but its still great

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>tfw when 200hp/liter
>tfw when that engine is hauling less than a ton
>tfw your car is purple

>>16936798
>>16936951
>>16936966
>>16936983
>>16937033
You're really enthusiastic about making this 'post your engine' thread all about your stupid rusty Toyota. Do you have friends? No? Well okay, you can hijack threads to use as your own personal diary, for the sake of your feelings.

>>16942122
He was literally just replyingto people asking him questions.

>>16942122
His 5 posts have contributed more to making this board less shit than you ever have .

>>16942138
>de-trips himself to damage control
>literally just replying to
He replied like 5 times to each one bc he's an autistic histrionic faglord with no friends and desperate for attn and thinks every post is his own personal blog.

>>16942281
I'm not even him, your complaining is just more cancerous than him actually contributing to discussion

>>16942329
>staunchly defending a shitposting trip
Did you say something, something about cancer?

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I-i swear there was still compression

>>16942398
>unironically driving a Ren Alt-right

>>16940772
thats a thing of beauty

>>16940694
>diesel

>>16937977
*you're

>>16942439
Thanks. I think it's funny how people post their 100% stock shitboxes in here most of which aren't even clean.

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Lol shit box in

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wew lad