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WHW

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I live on a barrier island (Grand Isle) on the Louisiana coast. Hoping to find some info about protecting a side by side from salt damage. Maybe some of you that fight road salt have a better idea than I came up with..

My plan is to use a water sprinkler with a connection like what I use to flush out the outboard motor and wash down the skiff. I have had good results over the years with Salt Away as the flushing agent, so with the sprinkler slid under the SxS, I can let it run and move it around to try to get the nooks and crannies flushed.

Any thoughts that might point a better way for me?

Thanks,

WW
 

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I live on a barrier island (Grand Isle) on the Louisiana coast. Hoping to find some info about protecting a side by side from salt damage. Maybe some of you that fight road salt have a better idea than I came up with..

My plan is to use a water sprinkler with a connection like what I use to flush out the outboard motor and wash down the skiff. I have had good results over the years with Salt Away as the flushing agent, so with the sprinkler slid under the SxS, I can let it run and move it around to try to get the nooks and crannies flushed.

Any thoughts that might point a better way for me?

Thanks,

WW
They have similar set ups at rock quarries around here. Basically a large set of sprinklers shooting water up through a large cattle guard. As well as side sprinklers for the tires and sideboards of the trucks.

Driving over a sprinkler and hosing down the sides seems like a pretty easy solution 👍👍👍👍

To leave the quarry you must run over the cattle guard.

Running over a sprinkler or two seems like an easy solution as well as coating the belly with some fluid film.
 

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Had a customer with a old rust free K-car and he swears that turtle wax and then coat with aqua net hair spray on the undercarriage stops rust. I do not know but his car was rust free. Fluid film is another good choice, just perform an undercarriage wash pretty often.
 

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CorrosionX has helped my truck and airstream trailer sit yearly fall vacations on the beach in Florida Emerald coast for 26 years.
 
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Fluid film
IMHO LPS-3 (it has a mil spec.) is a better salt spray protectant than Fluid Film.

Where I worked, the cargo compartments of our airline aircraft were all treated with LPS-3 prior to being put in service, ostensibly to protect aluminum from animal urine corrosion.

I live by the salt water.
I have been using LPS-3 for 50+ years.
 
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u can keep salt OFF of stuff but can you keep it OUT of other stuff?

Bearings, axles, suspension joints, shocks, and a ton of other areas.

I actually made my own undercarriage washer, similar to the one in the pic above but it sprays upwards. Slick little tool that I use often on the SxS, and truck, and cars. But I don't live in the salt belt, things do rust here but it takes a long time.