Thread: Rust!! Medical intervention!!

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Well we certainly have the opposing camps ... Don't we.

Thanks pro70 I'll pull the glass and give it a shot. Nuttin to lose.

Swifster: It has a little other rust on the tailgate by one hinge.
But I have crawled under it many times, (replaced two ring gears and three starters) and have never seen other rust. I'm in CA no where near salted roads. There is no under rust. Under coating wouldn't have helped this patch of rust.... Wish I'd known about the A/C pipe-corner-rust deally. I would've torn the liner out and cold galvanized the whole area.

Bob, Bob, Bob... I guess I am a sentimental fool but this vehicle has taken me to hell and back again. Fully loaded wash board at 60MPH for days, back and forth across Nevada, thru Oregan deserts, (yes they have serious deserts there!). Off roading in Utah overloaded, river fording. CA to D.C. and back via Canada. It never fails me. We hit an 8 inch step in a dirt road in Death Valley at 62MPH everyone was pinned to the ceiling. It never phased the beast. It is easy to maintain, repair, and gets frikken 20MPG!! Goes 800 miles on a tank of fuel, three times farther than any human bladder. This one is massively built form the factory. The front sway bar is 3/8" in diameter bigger than normal, (don't know why). The rear brakes have 186,000 miles on them, I inspected them last month, they are two thirds worn. The rear axle is far larger than the one in my 85 Ford 1 Ton.

I just can't imagine a 92 Sub with it's A frame front suspension holding up anywhere near as well to what I subject this thing to.

Anyway I have been looking for a replacement 3/4 ton diesel sub since this rot showed up two years ago. It's hard when you can't find a single one in the entire US.

Also this era vehicle, in diesel, I can do anything I want to to it without the DMV having a cow.

I could by a newer one. I have test driven them and almost done it, but then I think of the chance to have my son
help tear down and rebuild, amp out the engine, and go thru the tranny with me. That won't happen if I buy a newer one.
Though that would be easier I agee.

THAT is why I want to fix the leetle patch O ^%(^%^$##@@(%)$() rust.

Thank you TurboRunner for your continuing moral support.

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