New TT with Rusty Bottom
Hey y'all. A good friend recently bought a brand new TT. He told me he'd ordered it special and it was manufactured within the past few months. It turns out, his trailer's whole underside is rusty....
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Like others have said, the chassis might be pulled to the manufacturer through salted slush and then sit for months before they get around to building a RV on it.
Good news is that rust takes years to eat through even a quarter inch of steel so your friend has a long time before the thing crumbles to dust.
What I've done to both of my Class A rigs with rusty undercarriages is stabilize it by spraying and brushing on Jasco Prep & Primer. It's inexpensive, Home Depot carries it in the paint department. It chemically changes the rust back into metal and halts it's progression. It can be painted afterwards but I don't bother. Just stabilizing it works fine.
The rust can make things harder to work on under there.
Good news is that rust takes years to eat through even a quarter inch of steel so your friend has a long time before the thing crumbles to dust.
What I've done to both of my Class A rigs with rusty undercarriages is stabilize it by spraying and brushing on Jasco Prep & Primer. It's inexpensive, Home Depot carries it in the paint department. It chemically changes the rust back into metal and halts it's progression. It can be painted afterwards but I don't bother. Just stabilizing it works fine.
The rust can make things harder to work on under there.
