rsm05sublegfixer
06-28-2009, 01:51 PM
After my daughter purchased a fairly good looking 2005 Subaru Legacy, she brought it over and I gave the car a real good going over. Cosmetically, the car looks puff and perfect inside and out. Even with 84K Miles on it, the engine oil was surprisingly the color of fresh EVO Olive Oil and the Transmission Fluid was a nice, clear transparent red. The only problem I could find was that all the aluminum casting surfaces on the engine looked very badly oxidized and each and every steel fastener on the motor from top to bottom was very badly corroded with thick/flaky rust on many of them! I examined all the under body fasteners and panels and could find no evidence of any complete flood or salt water immersion, so the only thing I can surmise is that the original owner's must have lived in an ocean side location with a prevailing off shore breeze blowing salty damp air around the car often enough to prompt this kind of corrosion.
None of this seems to have affected the engine and transmission internals or other major exposed cast iron/steel components. As well, the body panels are all clean and tight and the paint on this car is just beautiful...looking factory new. But with all that said, I am puzzled as to what to do to stop the damage from going any further. I'd appreciate knowing where I can either get a bucket full of the new factory combination socket-screw head bolts I can use to replace the rusting ones (Strictly Metric? They MUST be...) on this motor or find something chemically effective at stopping this corrosion in its tracks that I can spray them down with and not wind up loosening them from their in-dwelling spots or causing other adjacent seals or gaskets to begin to leak. I would appreciate some help from any SLI Members with experience in this area! Many Thanks!
--==Bob==--
None of this seems to have affected the engine and transmission internals or other major exposed cast iron/steel components. As well, the body panels are all clean and tight and the paint on this car is just beautiful...looking factory new. But with all that said, I am puzzled as to what to do to stop the damage from going any further. I'd appreciate knowing where I can either get a bucket full of the new factory combination socket-screw head bolts I can use to replace the rusting ones (Strictly Metric? They MUST be...) on this motor or find something chemically effective at stopping this corrosion in its tracks that I can spray them down with and not wind up loosening them from their in-dwelling spots or causing other adjacent seals or gaskets to begin to leak. I would appreciate some help from any SLI Members with experience in this area! Many Thanks!
--==Bob==--