Waxoiling inside the chassis

Whilst I'm waiting for some bits for the 88 I decided to tackle the chassis of the 109. I've had to cut some bits of the chassis and noticed that their is
surface rust inside. Will a good spay of waxoil arrest the rusting or will it still rust under the coating I give it.
Galvanising is not an option as I live in the third world.

d9022 said:

Whilst I'm waiting for some bits for the 88 I decided to tackle the chassis of the 109. I've had to cut some bits of the chassis and noticed that their is
surface rust inside. Will a good spay of waxoil arrest the rusting or will it still rust under the coating I give it.
Galvanising is not an option as I live in the third world.

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it should slow the rust down a bit, but not cure it.

some people have also used old engine oil mixed with diesel and sprayed that in and on chassis to help protect them.

I'm a part time cook most days, so I'm wondering how used olive oil (filtered) from the fryers mixed with tractor sump oil and wax, spaying it in the chassis under pressure using a flexible lance.

I'd say you'd be the first to try!

d9022 said:

I'm a part time cook most days, so I'm wondering how used olive oil (filtered) from the fryers mixed with tractor sump oil and wax, spaying it in the chassis under pressure using a flexible lance.

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i'm pretty sure it's biodegradable, so won't be ideal and it'll stink.

i'd have a go with the sump oil and diesel. warm it up in the sun or a water bath first to help the flow.

sump oil and diesel shouldn't need warming up...

a couple of times i've sprayed sump oil (no diesel) into my 88" chassis using an airline and parafin wash gun, it vapourises the oil quite nicely and hopefully leaves a thin penetrating layer over all the surfaces, it obviously builds up local to the injection point and a fair bit dribbles back out

i've also waxoyled the inside of my 109 chassis, i thinned the waxoyl using white spirits and then used a shutz gun with an extension tube and a crossdrilled nozzle, i pumped a gallon of waxoyl into that one with probably nearly a litre of white spirits to thin it on a hot day (my waxoyl was really thick as it came out of the original can), i had minimal waste drips drop back out of the chassis so i'm guessing most of it stuck to the inner walls of the chassis

i generally use quite a high airline pressure to vapourise the oil/waxoyl properly to try to get a little of it to flow as far as possible

i dunno if i'd mix a vegetable oil with sump oil as they react to each other (polymerise) but on the other hand that could "possibly" be a good thing inside the chassis

Try spraying the inside with Fertan.

Are you in a hot country...if so waxoil will creep quite well...it really needs to be uk summer or somewhere warm to get the best out of it or it congeals,

I thin mine down a bit with white spirit....

I find Dinitrol cavity wax penetrates like diesel but sticks like the proverbial to a blanket. I'm a true convert, no more waxoyl-just Dinitrol products

nickjaxe said:

Are you in a hot country...if so waxoil will creep quite well...it really needs to be uk summer or somewhere warm to get the best out of it or it congeals,

I thin mine down a bit with white spirit....

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I'm about 60 klms from Andorra on the Spanish side.
Hot in the summer, freezing in the winter.