prevent hitch rust?

[bobby5]

I bought a new truck and all the trucks i see have rust on the hitch where the welds are. I was wondering how i can prevent this from happening to my hitch. Would any wax protectant it from rust?

[Speedwagon]

If you want a good durable finish, you can coat the hitch in a layer of either rubber undercoating from a spray can, or get it professionally coated with the spray on bedliner. The entire hitch can be sprayed down less the actual reciever hole.



I`d imagine anything else would result in alot of attention, as that area of the truck probably sees quite alot of abuse.

[the other pc]

I assume that the areas you`re talking about are painted metal and that the welds have rust showing through where the paint is thin or missing or something?



Car wax is made to protect paint; it won`t do much for exposed steel. There are spray-on pertoleum based topical treatments like WD-40 (my favorite is Boeshield T-9 (http://www.boeshield.com/)) but they`re only temporary.



If you try spraying most coatings over rusty metal the metal will continue to rust underneath the coating. The best way of course is to strip to bare metal, prep, prime and paint.



Eastwood`s Rust Encapsulator (http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=374&itemType=CATEGORY) coatings can actually be applied over light surface rust.





PC.

[imported_CBX Carl]

http://www.por15.com/



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[fivepointoh]

I second having it sprayed with bedliner, or painting it with Por 15. You could also have it powdercoated any color you like, although that would require it be removed from the truck and stripped to bare metal.