What was done to your rig this week?

[Andy5160]

Very strange. I am in a rust belt and mine does not look even close to what you have after 80k miles

 

[jeeeep]

Very strange. I am in a rust belt and mine does not look even close to what you have after 80k miles

I'm surprised they're this bad after less than 60 days.

Last post Dec 27th I had installed them, taking Eddie's advice and deal with them now before it gets worse.

 

[Cousin Clyde]

Doing some general cleanup and maintenance and noticed how badly these joints have rusted since January.
Both for installed new end of Dec for the New Years Run
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That is pretty odd. Even though that’s the threaded end, there is still usually a decent amount of black oxide coating left and usually a touch of tool oil from the factory, in my experience.

That looks like when I hit something with a cutoff wheel and leave it exposed…that bright orange flash rust…

 

[jeeeep]

That is pretty odd. Even though that’s the threaded end, there is still usually a decent amount of black oxide coating left and usually a touch of tool oil from the factory, in my experience.

That looks like when I hit something with a cutoff wheel and leave it exposed…that bright orange flash rust…

hmmm... wondering if they didn't get coated?

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

Wow, did you drive through areas that have salted roads or something?

Might want to take a wire brush to them with some penetrating oil to clean them up. Maybe apply some antiseize to help protect them too.

Texas has had snow and ice storms and the roads were heavily salted (and other involved states too). I drove my Jeep through this so I should check it for rust too.