My lightning only has 600 miles on it but I noticed the axle housing has paint flaking off it right by the shock mounts let me know if this is happening to you guys to, thanks.

PS: If it were a camaro or something of that nature I wouldn't care because you can't see it, but it's a truck and it does sit higher than a sports car

 

Yes,This is unfortunatly normal.I just got under mt truck today and cleaned it.The under side is important to me also.My pain is gone in a few places.One thing I realized is,No matter how hard you try,It is still a truck.No matter how well you keep it clean,It is going to get flawed anyway.Ive just accepted it now.Inless you keep it in a garage and only drive on sundays.Try getting all the rubber off!!!! This is impossible.My truck is being prof. detailed tomorrow.It will not see the track again till end of the summer.Im sick of having rubber all on the under side

 

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My differential cover is starting to flake and rust. Also the steering box and knuckles are compleatly covered in rust. How much effort an $ would it take for Ford to coat these parts in something at the factory? The bean counters are always lurking in the background!
One more thing. I removed my hitch today and there are now some bare spots on the frame. Just what is that stuff that coats the frame? Can you buy it somewhere to touch up the bare spots?

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White 1999 Lightning
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good question about the fram stuff i would like to get some of that too but undercoat seems to be more shinny than the stuff on the frame and seems to not go on as smooth

 

just wanted to see what you did as far as painting the rusty stuff

 

EJ,
Eastwood catalog has a bunch of different paints for chasis, brakes, under-hood, ect.

 

WHat I did on my truck is i painted the differential/frame, any showing underbody components with the most high tempature flat black paint i could find, 6 months later everything still looks great