Does anyone grease there car or truck rather than re-paint? I could only find paint threads and grease threads as separate topics in the search. I use WD-40 to "wash" my motorcycles and jeep, and put a dab of grease on any rust area. I've also had great luck with a marine product called 6-56. It is like WD-40 only stays longer, and it shoots out a tube like WD-40 so you can get those hard to reach places. I usually rag off the excess and don't have any problems with slippery/dirty surfaces. My new '77 D100 has some big surface rust patches and I was thinking of either: 1) POR-15 primer then a coat of red 2) cheepo paint job 3) lube it up and let it be as God made it. If anyone can share the pros and cons of #3, I would like to hear from you. <!-- / message -->
seriously though, I wouldn't put any type of grease on any part of a car that I might want paint to stick to at a later date. on the other hand, I have been cleaning the painted surfaces of the engine compartment of my driver with WD 40 and a rag. works pretty good.
Grease your car on the underside. Top side's for paint. What kinda of drugs are out there, anyway?????
i use to spray my car every day with pen.oil.it was free and it made my car shine in the winter.i do remember some friends putting vasoline on there tires to make them shin but never grease on the body,thats for some fun with the wife{LOL}!!!!!!!
grease is good for bare metal. im not too sure about a show car. i use this stuff i get from work i think its by CRC its a thick grease spray.i spray it on all my bare metal parts. we use it at work for all the machined parts we store outside and for years and years it keeps rust out.
Ive actually heard of something similar. But not grease, Ive heard of people using motor oil and a rag to give a primer or pantia vehicle a satin coloring. Im actually planning on using used diesel motor oil (since I changed the oil in my daily driver, and now have 5 gallons of the stuff) on my '47, as I dont plan on painting it or doing body work, to preserve the original paint/pantia of it.
Gibbs Brand is specificly made for it and can be later cleaned up and painted over, there are actually several products and some folks do just use old motor oil thinned down with kerosene here's some info on Gibbs http://www.roadsters.com/gibbs/#paint if i could get a quarter for every time someone posts about things they know nothing about, i'd probably just have more unfinished projects....
I know a guy who has a '60's 428 Torino he brought brand new and still has. I believe he covers things with oil so they don't rust. It looks kinda a mess when you peek under the hood but it is preserved.
hahaha .but if you prep it befor you paint you wont get that problem tho. every peace of steel i buy from the factory has a coat of a light grease or oil
i had a Graphite Black paint job on the Fury, that was pretty dead- it would come up for a bit if i waxed her up, but needed a repaint bad- but i knew i'd need to prep the primer by giving it another car to adhere to. Well one day i grabbed the spray bottle at the job site marked "soap" and put it allllll over the black car that sat in the hundred degree sun all day. Yeah, "soap" containers full of tractor degreaser will definitely ruin your day. Killed that paint DEAD. Hotrod cook out was next weekend and my friends just ATF'd a buddy's car (rattletrap **** box) and suggested i try it. So me and a quart of Type F went to town on 18foot of SS Rustbucket and it turned out like a new paint job! Graphite Black like new- well it did look a little TOO shiny, lol I buffed it out with a few clean dry towels and it was just right. Later at the cookout, one of our fastest, coolest, most popular buddies was accosted by his Cookie-of-the-month because her skirt had "some kind of icky stuff all over it and it's ruined!!!" *stamps feet* his reply? "Guess you should keep your f$%#ing *** off of other people's cars then dont ya think?"
That's true, but what I would worry about is the fact that the entire car is covered with the offending product....let's say oil. And the oil had been applied regularly over the course of a few years. Now you go to shoot the car, and you're trying to de-grease it, but there's oil in every seam, gap, and crevice. You know how painting goes, if you have one little bit of contaminant it can cause a fish-eye. Some of these products are extremely hard to clean off a vehicle. I painted for a living.. I'm a clean freak about prep work. Shot a car for a guy, but he had used some crazy super-duty wax he bought off an infomercial. I couldn't get it completely cleaned up....it was terrible man... So, I guess I'm a little biased....haha.
If you are ever going to repaint then WD-40 is a bad idea. Its got teflon in it and nothing will stick to teflon ever. What is common with the mountain folk is kerosene and used oil. Put it in a pump sprayer and go to town. Then wipe it with a rag if you want. it will give it a mild sheen. You can also do it then use real fine steel wool to bring back a mild sheen and color to old paint. The steel wool knocks the oxidation down. But it take a double dose because you have to rinse the **** off afterwords then hit it with the kerosene mix again. Again I probably wouldn't do that to anything that I was planning on repainting. After you oil one the only way to ever paint it again is to take it back to good metal then pickle it with muriatic acid. On a car or truck with nooks 'n' crannies it will invole dis***embly to get the **** off so it doesn't seep out and contaminate your paint. But it is a way to keep one from going back to mother earth from whence it came.
I usually use the red wheel brg. grease rubbed on with a dead squirrel then polished out with a handful of small stones.
I used to piss down each side of my stock car after I got it home and off the trailer. Just showing it who was the boss! If I finished in the top-5, it got a reprieve. Bob
Would that be road kill or shot in the backyard squirrel? I think the road kill brand would be kind of gritty. No?
Yeah, that's my dilema. I know if I grease or oil it there is no going back. I like the way the truck looks now and just want to stop the rust where it is and make the remaining paint pop a little, its kind of flat right now. I don't think I'll ever paint it, so I think I'll go for it. Thank you for the info and opinions about doing it and what to use if I do. I won't use grease, I'll try the oil and kerosene bit. Man, Jersey has a bad rap and I guess I'm not doing it any service. Did I tell you about the time I put an egg in my gastank and ran a low 12!
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