On 12/3/2015 9:13 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Jack wrote:

In the
old days, the brake lines lasted, but exhaust rusted out every other
year. Soon I expect the entire truck to rust away, leaving only the
unrusted exhaust system. I guess brakes are not as important as
exhaust in today's twisted world.

Nope - apparently they are not, or else the idiot manufacturers would have
gone to some sort of plastic brake and gas lines so we wouldn't have to deal
with this crap - but... they haven't...

How about stainless steel? They figured it out for exhaust, You'd think
they could do it for brakes?

Hey Jack - I have a better than average clue on this stuff. I fix this
stuff. I modify the idiot designs from the factory in the hope of reducing
further decay (though there really is no fixing rust...) but it is so easy
to see how/why these problems occur, and they all start at the factory - not
in your garage.

No doubt design has a lot to do with creating rust buckets like my GMC
truck, my thoughts on heated garage caused rust are two fold. First, as
long as salt and water remain frozen, they cause no rust at all. Thaw
the frozen crap out every night in your heated garage, and all that
frozen crap turns into salt water, and rust is on it's way.

Second, and most important, it's takes some of the sting out of it when
you tell the wife the garage is for a wood shop and tools, not cars and
storage of junk.

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Jack
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