Has anyone used this product, FLUID FILM | Powerful Corrosion Protection & Lubrication, or something similar on/in their truck frames (or anywhere)? If so, is it worth my time? I'm just wanting to slow the rot from the tons of salt and calcium chloride they put on the roads around here.
Yes and yes. I’ve been coating mine with the aerosol cans for a while. Really want to buy in on the sprayer.
Yes I use it on my truck and cars. It works. You need to get in inside any closed areas, frame boxes, doors, fenders, etc. To get the most out of it. It's not one and done though. Needs to be touched up annually.
I take all my vehicles to a local guy that does oil spray...takes him 10 minutes, it cost $50-60 (according to vehicle size) and it does a great job of preventing rust (even stopping existing) I think most places that have salty roads have people that do this. Totally worth the cost for me to not have to lay under the vehicle screwing with this. (and I rarely hire anything out!)
Fluid film is the real deal. Its made with lanolin from sheep's wool. It smells like bag balm or freshly shorn wool. Lanolin is kinda greasy or buttery and does not come off easy which makes it great for underspray.
Thanks for the response. I see you can get a 5 gallon pail of it off fleebay for $169 bucks and a sprayer kit for $100ish (depending on what kind). Yeah I really need to focus on the undercarriage here in central Wisconsin. The F150 I bought has the aluminum body panels so I should be good there, I just gotta try to keep the frame/undercarriage from rotting away. I gotta look around a little more then. The one place I called that was advertising for doing it was $250. I'd pay the $50-$60 you're paying in a heartbeat, to keep me from crawling around under the truck with no hoist/lift and getting covered in the stuff. Anybody have any tips for doing it yourself, without a lift/hoist?
Yeah our guy is pretty cheap...and VERY busy! Looking on FBMP, it looks like similar services cost at least double that, even triple, at many other places around here. The problem is that the places that are the most reasonable, have to advertise the least...word just gets around. Can be hard to find...if my guy was not close, I likely would not know about him.
We use FF on the fleet at work and I use it on my personal vehicles. At work the get it in a 5 gallon bucket and use the FF spray kit. It has a peanut butter consistency and isn’t the really user friendly getting the product into the spray gun. And the spray gun makes a ton of overspray. Kinda makes a mess. A five gallon bucket will last a long time just doing a couple vehicles. I believe they sell it in a gallon pail as well. On my own vehicles I find the rattle cans are easier to work with. I use 4-6 cans on my F150, spraying everywhere underneath. Use the little red wand to spray in all the holes in the frame. You want to avoid getting it on the brakes but it won’t hurt anything else. I try to do it on a dry day and after drive on a dirt road to get the dust to help it hold on. Re apply yearly. I don’t mind the smell but when I do my wife’s explorer she says it smells like a cross of wet dog and sour milk. I you don’t do it on a lift wear old clothes and be prepared to make a mess. A concrete floor will get very slippery. The places around here that you can bring your car to charge an arm and a leg for something you can easily do yourself.
The local city uses FF when assembling new salt trucks, then they take them to aforementioned oil spray service every year for "maintenance"
I understand PB Blaster has come out with a similar product called Surface Shield. I haven’t talked to anyone with first hand experience. We use Fluid Film regularly on the farm since around 1997 but on machinery. Prices to have someone undercoat a vehicle around here are similarly 2-300.00 dollars. Fluid Film is definitely great stuff.
After getting the Jeep frame repaired, the shop recommended I get it Woolwax’d. My son somehow knew the guy and he laid it on thick! It felt like semi-thick butter, it was thicker than what I get from FF. I sure wouldn't want to work on anything underneath there after the spray. I can't give any feedback on longevity because we ended up selling it, but the frame shop guy told me it was very good stuff (if that accounts for anything). I'd bet it lasts longer. When applying rattle cans of FF, I use old carboard boxes on the shop floor to catch what falls, and it's a lot. I also use those cheap disposable paint overalls (which we have at work) because it gets messy. Pretty much self explanatory on the application. You always get a mess at the nozzle. 4-6 cans is what I go through too.
Get the better spray kit, it's the one with multiple nozzles/lines. Werner understated the mess of loading up the "bottle" of the sprayer. I use a wooden paint stirrer as it fits into the bottle. It's too thick for a funnel, and keeping your supply warm is helpful. Around here a gallon is around $40 and the new black color is a couple of bucks more.
The guy I go to uses oil, but to make it flow better he keeps his spray gun and an extra gallon jug of oil in a crockpot full of warm water to make it thin out...might work here?
I was debating this one? FLUID FILM, PFC, PRO UNDERCOAT SPRAY GUN KIT WANDS Made in Italy 50 RUST PLUGS 81991122070 | eBay How are you getting it in the 'bottles' then if you cant use a funnel?
I cut the funnel off shortly after the point it fits in the bottle then use a small cup to fill the funnel then push the product in the bottle with a 1/2” wooden dowel.
That's good stuff and you can dump it right out of the gallon into the other containers. I did the complete underside of my truck with one gallon this last spring. No sign of it coming off yet anywhere.
I then took it down the street to the place that brenndatomu posted about. They hammered the whole thing with oil for 60 bucks.
