Thread: Rustproofing for the beach

Last time I went on the beach, I prepared it by ... hiring a rental 4WD [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] The Freelander stays well away from the beach.

Now we have the Rangie, it will go on the beach. As others said, I will be giving it a good wash afterwards. Even better is if you can find a nice deep pool of fresh water to drive through ...

I've also bought some $2 cans of fish oil from Supercheap ... can't hurt.

My father-in-law was telling me that at one time in the dim past he replaced the chassis on his series Landie. When he first got the chassis he filled it with fishoilene and turned it over every which way, rinse and repeat several times. He says the chassis is still probably out there in good nick.

Not sure if I like the idea of 'turning the chassis over every which way' with the rest of the landie still attached though. It could hurt a bit. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

just a point on lanolin. We spray the boat trailer with this stuff and it stops rust dead.We use loniolin grease on the springs and that doubles the life of them(at least).Every time (bout twice a week ) the trailer is used it is allmost totaly submerged to drive on/off.The lights and every thing is covered. Trailers ae galv. when new but if we get 5 years before replacement we are doing well.The current trailer on the centre console is 7 years old and (quite) good.

Sounds good tracker,,
does sand stick to it though???

on a different note,

where do you take the boat?

Pedro,
being put out to pasture gives me the time to put boat anywhere from Brunswick heads to cooktown.
local around cleveland to all points east.
about the sand ,seems to be ok,just drops off on our crap roads here.

Might have to drag it up to Boonooroo,,,

Someone gotta teach me how to catch fish,, :wink:

I usually just wander over to S36,
put my feet up and nod off,,, [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Hi guys
Gravel roads are just as bad if not worse than beaches.The dust builds up in your chassis,especially outriggers and just sits there nice and cosy dry until winter,then gets wet and works away rusting from inside to out till next summer until it drys out again.It is really worth the time crawling around under your Landy finding somewhere to stick your hose!!!!
Cheers
Andrew

pedro,
been up your way crabbing. not a good place for a half ****ed half blind ol bastard who just keeps polishing the prop. some of the markers are sure hard to find.good muddies though.