Talon Inserts with steel Torklift Receivers
After many trips over the mountain passes to Utah, my tie downs started to look rather rusty. The most visible part is the insert. I was considering the whole sand, prep, prime, and paint path; and d...
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The heat shrink will wear through about as quick as paint, where it touches.
best plant would be to clean up and repaint the receiver pieces. You could use an in frame spray nozzle to get the insides. And then maintain them periodically.
Some good rust proofing lube in the sockets like Fluid film, or grease/antiseize will help greatly as well. The shrink tube won’t help, really. If anything it’ll trap more moisture as soon as it begins wearing through which will basically be immediately.
The contact is fully spread out now, and I don't expect the heat shrink will wear through. I can report back following the next round trip to Utah coming up mid-March.
The reason I rejected using anti-seize and all other lubricants is they will not electrically insulate the two metals. The galvanic cell will still exist.
Please doo.
why does the pic look like you just sprayed the inserts with plasti dip? Didn’t see a hard line where the shrink tubing ends.
Those inserts move up and down and forward and back as the truck and camper attempt to flex and move separate from each other (the reason the tie downs are needed, essentially).The hard line is not visible in this photo, since it's directly behind the plate. I assure you it is heat shrink and not plasti-dip.
1700 miles later, including wind strong enough to keep me under the speed limit at times, several mountain passes, and a short distance on a boulder strewn road into one of our favorite boon docking sites; and the heat shrink is holding up. The only obvious wear is longitudinal from insertion and removal, and this is minimal. The rust is on the surface. This is the same left front of the earlier photo. I'm calling this mod a success.
