Re: Fender Flares?

Indeed, not much better than rust-belt salt. Can't imagine what it's doing to the water supply. (Of course, in Silverton the water in the Animas and Mineral Creek is already full of gold & silver dust anyway!)

transpertation

What makes it so "tangy" are all the lead, tin, arsenic, cadmium and other heavy metals. Also, our sewage treatment plant is about a hundred yards from the Animas, your water supply...

Earle

I've got all the flares and that running board/step ugliness off my 88 YJ and there's not much at all in the way of rust under them.. the only places are where the screws have worn paint off the holes (only where a screw was slightly lose). One or two very minor spots.

If you REALLY want to see some rust that you had no idea was there... take off all your hinges. The windshield, door and hood (on the cowl side of the hinge) were hiding a decent amount of rust. The windshield hinge is a real PITA to get off and on, but I'm glad I did take it off, I will be sandblasting where they were before painting. A year or two more and I'd be doing sheet metal work on the spots instead of sandblasting.

I almost left them on because of the relative scarcity of sheet metal rust on this Jeep (more frame rust than anything else). But I wanted stainless hardware anyway, so I pulled them off and discovered that I had a good bit more prepping to do :)