Washing frame after salt?

After getting hit with a blizzard,my entire truck is covered in salt, sand, and that's nasty road spray crap. The salt is essentially all dry on the frame so I'm guessing it is inactive. I'm thinking of holding off because the next couple days are going to be warm and all the rest of the snow and salt is going to flood the streets.

My question for you guys is; should I wait to clean my frame off (it is fluid filmed) or should I do it as soon as possible? What's the best way of soaking everything without taking a lot of the fluid film along with it(any recommended soaps, chemicals)?

 

I would spray off the salt as soon as you can. I usually hit up a pay and spray as soon as I can. Usually I st spend a buck or two and rinse the truck. Main goal is to knock majority of salt off. Just because the salt is dry does not mean it's inactive.

 

Just got my truck back after having the frame replaced last month and it's already being exposed to road salt. Took a trip to the car wash today and when I got home I thought up this setup. It should get into those areas's of the frame that the carwash can't.

 

Genius. Barefoot bandit for president lol

 

get your vehicle rest-checked. I did mine as soon as I bought it, besides that use soap and water. Our local self wash has a hose with a little bend at the end for doing underbody. Kinda like a check mark. Another one is like a rake that sprays water upward on wheels. Some invention ideas. use copper piping and a hose connector for a pressure washer.

 

Got some Bro Lean going on there

 

I'll give it a good once over with a hose, lawn sprinkler and all, I really don't want to use a heavy soap or power washing because I recently did do two coats of fluid film before winter so I'm not trying do that again until next fall. The things we do to protect our damn frames lol

 

I use a marine product called Salt Away when I flush the engines of my boat. It acts as a dispersant and I think adds a very thin protective coating as a corrosion inhibitor. I've also used it when I wash the undercarriage of my truck after taking it to the beach and I don't have any oxidation issues.

Might be worth looking into for those of you who have to deal with salt roads.

 

I tend to agree. The sooner the better. If you have fluid film, I would just rinse it off with a hose and not a power washer. I don't fluid film but use oil, but still feel that rinsing is better them power washing if you have a coating you are trying to preserve.

 

Salt Away for sure. Totally benign product that won't react with any undercoatings or other chemical treatments. I use it with
the dispenser designed for it attached to a pvc type attachment called the Underwasher attached to a garden hose. I think the total price for the Salt Away and dispenser was about 30 or so bucks. The Underwasher was about 20 I believe. Salt Away is used extensively in the marine industry. Basically removes the salt and the "leftover" product won't allow salt to attach itself to the surface. No residue or spotting either.

 

Good idea. Let me add, I have never had a rust problem on the frame of any Taco or Toyota framed vehicle I have owned...NEVER and I live it the middle of road salt heaven and often keep vehicles till they are more then ten years old. I think some over obsess and do the wrong things and others do nothing till it's too late. The idea is to keep an insulate on the frame as much as possible. You don't need a thick tough coating to protect it. You just try to stop rust from occurring. It's no different then putting grease or oil based product on the terminals of your battery. Just a thin light substance each year is all you need. Some prefer wax based. That should be OK too. But it isn't between these choices, it's workmanship and doing it yearly. You don't need expensive products.

 

i just hook up my garden hose to a hot water fosset in the house and spray it off with a spray nozzle on the hose. you don't need high pressure water to rinse it off. saves you from feeding the box at the car wash every couple minutes and you're not rushed. just do it when no one is home or everyone will be taking cold showers.

 

Why dont you just under coat the bottom of the truck when it is all dry and clean and be done with it.

 

Don't obsess ans spray it off as soon as you can using pressure so that you can get into all the crevices and crannies. If you own a post 2014 model hope against hopes that Toyota changed the formula on the steel alloy they use for frames. And once it's done, it's done. Buy a new one and be happy for that!!