Who drives their truck year round?

[fitz]

One day I hope to put a truck together for  winter driving. It won't be anything crazy, just a truck that's been gone through mechanically.
  A few guys have mentioned salt, the salt is bad enough, but its the magnesium chloride that gets sprayed on the salt that will do your truck in.

[philo_beddoe]

Dont mind rain cold snow or sand. Its the salt i cant stand!!  I hate the salt! I have even banged in sick just because the roads were freshly coated. I'm in new england, sometimes they put down more salt than there is snow on the roads!!!!!!!  Ugh!  Now i'm all wound up just talkin about it!!

Oh yeah, and i've heard about that mag-chloride, it eats metal and dries out and deteriorates rubber, pits chrome, real nasty stuff!!

[VileZambonie]

Buy an undercoating gun and a few gallons of truck bedliner. Do 3 strong coats on everything underneath and it will be OK

[Usareke]

Drive min all year round, lol can't get away with not driving it since its my only truck

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[philo_beddoe]

I just sprayed a gallon of wd-40 under entire truck. I only used it because i already had it on hand. Next i'll use blaster lubricant or fluid film. Wd-40 dont last very long, not thick enough.

[philo_beddoe]

 Vile, you've seen those white lines on I-84, i think thats the mag chloride.  And whats that green stuff tolland dpw uses?

[werewolfx13]

A lot of municipalities are using what is essentially beet juice to pre treat roads, minimizes the freezing of precipitation.

Fluid film is your friend in winter. I buy it by the gallon or 5 gallon and spray it on everything l can get to. Used to use diluted used motor oil, but fluid film smells better and seems to do a better job.

[VileZambonie]

It's truck poison is what it is

[philo_beddoe]

Fluid film is the best, little pricy though.  $$$

[BBM3]

When I bought my K10 in February I bought it to make it usable in deep snow, salt, and whatever crud mother nature and CDOT can throw at it.
I drove it in 2 feet of snow on Tuesday and it performed like a champ.
It has survived 40 years of who knows what before me and I am sure it will make it another 40 years as long as it is cared for as well as I am trying.

[philo_beddoe]

Glad you stuck with it. I can understand taking a classic muscle car off the road, but not a truck. Well, if it was a 40k resto and a really old truck, 1930-1960, i could understand that too i guess.

[philo_beddoe]

It's truck poison is what it is

haha, good answer..

[werewolfx13]

if your area uses beet juice, you have less to worry about. Its FAR less corrosive than salt, calcium chloride, or magnesium chloride. That said, I dont think ANY state DOTs are using it. So if you travel state roads, you're still going to be playing in the salt.

[AZ87V10]

I drive my truck year around. Granted, I have two and alternate between them, but if we have lots of snow, a 4x4 is mandatory! Every truck I've ever owned has been one! I know that ADOT uses some kind of spray on the roads that is supposed to act like salt to melt the snow without the corrosive side effects of it. Regardless, it makes a nasty white/gray film that gets all over everything! I try to wash it off as quickly as I can so it doesn't stay on my trucks any longer than is necessary. I've been lucky that we've had pretty mild winters here the last couple of years. We'll see what this winter has in store. We've already had several small storms that have dumped a few inches of snow here and there.

[Blazin]

I drive the heck outa mine in the winter. I plow with them.