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Originally Posted by DevinSixtySeven
I lived in Dayton for a while, four years actually.
Never had a problem with the pins in the brakes, but my rotors are rust-frozen to the hubs...makes for very brake-consciencious driving.
Toyota doesn't add anything to their fasteners during assembly other than thread lock...your alignment cams will eventually sieze as well.
In that sort of corrosive environment the best thing you can do is get something like Green Grease (I know, I keep caning that stuff, it's better than Mobil-1 tho) and put a coating on everything you want to be able to move later (where appropriate, anyway). Same goes for rubber parts as well...303 Aerospace Protectant worked very well in Ohio. Make sure you're using thread lock and torquing everything to the FSM spec. As long as that's all the case, you'll be ok even with the corrosive environment...just rinse the truck a lot in winter, and if you notice rust spots clean the loose rust, rough the surface, and throw on Rustoleum or POR-15.
-Sean
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Sean,
After reading that you used this POR-15 a couple of years ago I started to read up on it and was impressed with it so much I bought some with the intention of using it on my truck. Well I was having problems with my lawn tractor collecting grass on the bottom of the deck which caused it to rust, so I took it off and cleaned down to metal and brushed on two coats of POR-15 and now the grass dose not stick as bad and the deck will not rust and even rocks can nock this stuff off the deck surface. So then I bought one of those 15 dollar spray guns from Harbor freight and cleaned up my truck frame and started to paint it up. Well I got most of it done about 2/3's anyway and ran out of POR-15 and farted around and winter came before the POR did. Next spring the part I did not spray was coated with rust the rest was nice and black. So I have finished the rest that I can get to and some that you have to use a small brush on.
One point to make here where the POR come in contact with suns UV light you must coat it with a top coat of a blocking paint some thing of good quailty . I used meduim range black spray can paint and all is fine this stuff works. I painted the gas line that comes into my house 3yrs ago then coated it with cheap Walmart spray paint and no rust at all on it. Before I had to brush and repaint every year.
Kevin