Today's Maintenance

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by ex-x-fire

I did some rust prevention recently, I used this stuff. total cost $60. I did the underside, wheel wells, inside the doors/hatch, & the quarters. $35 for the fluid film & $20 for the harbor freight spray painter.

I love that! Fluid Film is the best. My principal and I used to go halves on a gallon and we sprayed it in our shop with the undercoating gun.

I was underneath my car today and found a couple of oblong rubber plugs just in front of the rear wheel, just inboard of the rocker panel. There's quite a large cavity in there. I sprayed Rust Check Red in those cavities - about 1/3 of a can in each and replugged. This section appears to be separated from the regular rockers as all the ATF I dumped in there the other day didn't make its way into these cavities.

[06YarisRS]

Tackling the brakes tomorrow. I don't anticipate any major issues having had the drums off a few days ago. The pads on there now are actually in pretty good shape. The drums are, I expect, the originals and are pretty rough looking. I plan to paint the drums with a few coats of ceramic header paint. I do this to my calipers and rotors on my cars. Then, once a year, I'll clean them up and respray. If you don't do this in our climate, they look like absolute crap after a winter or two.

[ex-x-fire]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

I love that! Fluid Film is the best. My principal and I used to go halves on a gallon and we sprayed it in our shop with the undercoating gun.

I was underneath my car today and found a couple of oblong rubber plugs just in front of the rear wheel, just inboard of the rocker panel. There's quite a large cavity in there. I sprayed Rust Check Red in those cavities - about 1/3 of a can in each and replugged. This section appears to be separated from the regular rockers as all the ATF I dumped in there the other day didn't make its way into these cavities.

My local Napa store gave me a 30" straw to use with the aerosol cans of fluid film. At the end of the straw are 4 tiny holes that spray in all directions. It's like a mini-fuel injector. Perfect for doors, rockers, sub frames, & cradles. Napa said these straws are from Sea Foam intake cleaners. I haven't found much luck in finding where you can buy just the straws.

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by ex-x-fire

My local Napa store gave me a 30" straw to use with the aerosol cans of fluid film. At the end of the straw are 4 tiny holes that spray in all directions. It's like a mini-fuel injector. Perfect for doors, rockers, sub frames, & cradles. Napa said these straws are from Sea Foam intake cleaners. I haven't found much luck in finding where you can buy just the straws.

Hey ex-x-fire.

I would love to get ahold of a few of those!

I had a flexible wand with 360 degree tip on it for use with FF. There is an outfit call Kellsport that sells these. Also, I've seen them on Amazon and Ebay. I really loved mine as it did an amazing job of 360 degree product application. The unfortunate thing is the tip on mine got lost inside a unibody subframe member despite my best efforts to carefully remove it. I did manage to do a couple of cars with it before I lost the tip.