Rusted Crap

[WrenchMonkey]

Originally Posted by Bear Chow

Well I've had the 95 wrangler with broken springs. Rusted beaten and abused...

I can top that.

I've got a 2000 superduty that I'm still friggin paying on, did the same thing. Twice.

Two years ago, I came home and there was a big puddle under it, I crawl down to look, and the fuel tank was all wet. I wasn't about to drop a nearly full 38 gallon diesel tank (300#) by myself, so I took it to a shop.

They call back, it's not the tank, it's the brake line rusted out. On a seven year old, 90k mile truck. I was pissed, but let em do it cause it was already there.

Fast forward to this december. I lend it to a buddy, so he can drag home a christmas tree. He's got his kids in the truck and it goes again. Rusted through in about 26 months!

Ford geniuses ran the line through a little pocket between the framerail and the tank. Anything in the bed (mud and water) drains into the pocket and sits there. That brakeline is permanently encased in wet mud.

So now mine is 1/4" stainless tubing, and runs around the other side of the tank.

Point is, I don't mind doing repairs on my old, rusty, brutally abused jeep. It deserves a little TLC.

I resent doing stuff like this on a rig I'm still paying on.

I really, really resent doing it twice.

[End my own little rant]

Robert