Very good!
I get my truck Krowned. Not sure if they have any Krown dealers in your area. I like that they pressure wash the under body (as an option) to get all the sand and salt off. Then spray it with their oil. It's very reasonable.
Not sure if you've ever went under a sandy vehicle and pressure washed it. Not fun! It's gross. For the $40 to have them pressure wash the entire under body of the vehicle is awesome. They suit up in a rain suit and have at it for about 30 minutes up on a lift getting soaked and covered in the disgusting road grime.
My frame is still black and no rust other than on some smaller screws, nuts, and bolts. Amazing how that stuff works.
I'll never do Ziebart after a bad experience (and a coworker's bad experience) with it.
I stayed clean today till I washed out the pan and the stuff sprayed all over me, I was surprised the location of the rear filter right over the drive shaft, I had no clue where it was actually mounted. Wound up using the one hose from the pressure pot.for the brake bleder kit.
No Krown dealers nearby, closest one is 2 hr away.
I think there is a place local that started doing something, I think I'll get the K1 snap ring done first then do the protection deal. I wonder what the techs think of this stuff that have to work on it. Especially since I have not done it and if I did it right before a big job like that.
I think a cool starter kit would be..... (not a price savings kit, just a all in one deal order it and be done)
1. GENOS oil filter wrench
2. GENOS fuel filter Socket
3. 30" small hose for rear filter.
4. 1 chassis mount fuel filter
5. 1 oil filter
6. Engine mount fuel filter
7. Cabin air filter
I also would have loved if someplace had picked out all the fluids in one click buy it now deal.....
1. 12 Qt of oil
2. Proper oil for front and rear diff
3. 1 qt ATF+4 for PS
4. What ever that oil is for the ABS sensor deal, I thought about doing that. But not even sure it applies to be honest. Then need to add in that little syringe deal folks use. I think I already have some.
Once you are set up it's pretty straight forward, but for me it's just hard to get time to figure it all out then before you know it your 6 months over due!
Then priming the system and that first long start always seems like an eternity. I primed mine 12x just to be sure.
So I did both filters and the oil at the same time, when done went from ACC to Run for about 30sec, back to OFF. Acc to Run for 30sec, then off and then started the truck.
I rolled the window down and had the radio and stuff off. You can hear the pump run, but if your hearing is shot it runs for like 30s.
It does hit the grid heaters twice but I canceled the 3rd by holding the button.
It started right up was really impressed, not like a 12V instant start, but it was not even that stumble start it does at times.
That '96 is amazing how darn fast it used to start. For all that these got going on they are quick but I think there are times they need to figure something out before they fire up.