Maybe all of the notes should be put into a book of
instructions from preparing to go to the salt to the how to
clean up afterwards. Lessons learned the hard way are best
remembered. Reminding everyone is necessary.
Glen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 06:47:18 -0700
wspotter <wester6935@home.com> wrote:
> Grib, Dan,
>
> Unfortunately the high pressure water from the car wash
> is part of the
> problem. It just forces the salt into the little places
> it didn't get into
> before. Electricals take it the worst. I'm convinced
> the very best way to
> handle it is just to let the hose with a small sprinkler
> head flush it off
> at low pressure. That at least prolongs the time until
> the salt wins. My
> '76 Chev pickup has probably spent it's last event on the
> salt. The rocker
> panels are about gone along with the bottom of the
> floorboards. The day we
> spent picking up wire and cones in 3" of water three
> years ago had a
> devastating effect on the floorboards. I wash it off and
> try to get
> everything that is there but with the salt from
> Bonneville and the salted
> roads in the winter it's an uphill battle. Too bad ...
> truck has a 350 with
> a 4 barrel, HE ignition and 4-bolt mains, 120,000 well
> maintained miles ...
> hope I can find a potential street rodder buyer with
> vision. I'll have to
> order some of the Salt-X. Send me details off line
> please. My '97 pickup
> goes to the salt next year.
>
> Wes
>
> on 9/27/01 5:18 AM, Dan Warner at dwarner@electrorent.com
> wrote:
>
> > just begun to battle the white stuff. I cannot believe
> (the places)
> > where (or how) that salt got to.
> > *************************************************
> >
> > Grib,
> >
> > You think you've got it bad now just wait until we run
> in water. The salt goes
> > every where as a solution then dries into an alien life
> form.
> >
> > Now you are going to comment on sentence one - "run in
> water?" We've been
> > pitted in water before, 1/8 - 1/2"
> > deep, as long as the course is dry we can race. I have
> pictures of cars
> > pushing up to 1/4 mile before starting because of the
> water. It becomes
> > interesting when the wind blows and the lake moves from
> one place to another.
> > Just more stuff to add to the Bonneville story files.
> >
> > DW
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