What have you done to your square lately??

[83Stepper]

I live in Ohio and I've never heard of them. So the sell frame patches then? My stepside is very questionable in the same area of the frame.

Yup, east of Akron and basically in PA they're that far out. Look like they sell tons of different patches as well as mounts etc. Was kind of thinking it was sketchy until I Googled it and they came up in the Summit Racing list. Same price there but free shipping so I'm definitely going through them instead of directly to the vendor. Almost bought an 86 K10 today that had a frame repair done but then it cracked again behind the leaf spring shackle. Was hard passing it up for $400, but the thought was if I went LS in it with a 4L60 to mate up to the 27 spline NP208 in it, didn't want to take the chance of cracking the frame again getting after it in 4 low roasting some goodyears lol.

 

[Travlr]

Toyota's problem was the boxed frame that made the truck so strong wasn't made with any drain holes. That wasn't a brine problem, it was an engineering problem.

Well if it's not a brine problem... why are there 30 year old Toyota frames that are still solid in southern and western states... and five year old frames needing to be replaced in the rust belt? Boxed frame or not... there's a difference in how long they hold up in states that use brine and those that don't.

I suspect in more frozen north states things are a bit different. Because we get heavy wet snows and big temperature swings which seem to require more than sand.

We have mountains and ski resorts that make eastern climates look temperate. High deserts with drifts and cutting winds. The Dakotas, Montana, Idaho are all comparable to Michigan and further east in snow totals and temps.

Also, reading the trucking trade publications they often talk about the different chemicals they use. *** chloride this and such, and how significant the corrosion is because of some of the particular chloride solutions being used in particular areas.

And I suspect there is more rust in the Dakotas/Montana/Idaho than in Arizona, but the rates of rust failures is still nowhere near what it is in the rust belt.