50BMG
Senior Member
Yea,
MI. winter road salt certainly doesn't help.
If I'm not mistaken, Eibach was pretty new at making these springs/struts for the Ram when I got them?
I bought the Stage One kit from you Nick back in Oct. 2019. I installed everything on the truck shortly thereafter. If I had to guess, I have maybe 35K to 40K miles on the truck since then?
Honestly, with what appeared to be a pretty high quality powder coating job done by Eibach on the springs, I didn't think something like this would ever be an issue. Factory springs rust but don't normally fail this quickly and the Eibachs looked to be protected even better than the Ram ones. But, only a year or so after the install, I did notice a quite a bit of corrosion on the surface of the springs and even the strut tubes.
Salt or not, I also wonder about the quality of the spring steel itself on the set that I got since on the piece of spring that recently broke off the drivers side assembly, you can see how far into the diameter of the spring wire that the corrosion had penetrated. (See pics below). That's a good 25%-33% INTO the spring steel diameter.
To me, that seems to indicate either bad metallurgy, an improper wire forming process, or micro-surface cracks that could have been created during the wire's coiling process were not addressed (I wonder if these springs are hot coiled or cold coiled?). I believe these micro cracks can be taken care of by shot peening the springs after coiling. Wonder if they shot peen their springs?
Oh well... I'm not going to Monday Morning QB it too much.
As expected from a company of their caliber, Eibach is standing behind everything and they are shipping me all new stuff; hopefully it will leave Cali. today.
What should I coat all the new stuff with to help slow down the corrosion process?
Isn't there something lanolin(?) based that is supposed to be "Da' Bomb" for preventing rust/corrosion?
Back in the day we'd use asphalt driveway sealer on the underside of a car's floor pan after cutting/welding in repairs. That seems to be a bit excessive for springs though.
Is these such think as a DIY Rhino Liner?
MI. winter road salt certainly doesn't help.
If I'm not mistaken, Eibach was pretty new at making these springs/struts for the Ram when I got them?
I bought the Stage One kit from you Nick back in Oct. 2019. I installed everything on the truck shortly thereafter. If I had to guess, I have maybe 35K to 40K miles on the truck since then?
Honestly, with what appeared to be a pretty high quality powder coating job done by Eibach on the springs, I didn't think something like this would ever be an issue. Factory springs rust but don't normally fail this quickly and the Eibachs looked to be protected even better than the Ram ones. But, only a year or so after the install, I did notice a quite a bit of corrosion on the surface of the springs and even the strut tubes.
Salt or not, I also wonder about the quality of the spring steel itself on the set that I got since on the piece of spring that recently broke off the drivers side assembly, you can see how far into the diameter of the spring wire that the corrosion had penetrated. (See pics below). That's a good 25%-33% INTO the spring steel diameter.
To me, that seems to indicate either bad metallurgy, an improper wire forming process, or micro-surface cracks that could have been created during the wire's coiling process were not addressed (I wonder if these springs are hot coiled or cold coiled?). I believe these micro cracks can be taken care of by shot peening the springs after coiling. Wonder if they shot peen their springs?
Oh well... I'm not going to Monday Morning QB it too much.
As expected from a company of their caliber, Eibach is standing behind everything and they are shipping me all new stuff; hopefully it will leave Cali. today.
What should I coat all the new stuff with to help slow down the corrosion process?
Isn't there something lanolin(?) based that is supposed to be "Da' Bomb" for preventing rust/corrosion?
Back in the day we'd use asphalt driveway sealer on the underside of a car's floor pan after cutting/welding in repairs. That seems to be a bit excessive for springs though.
Is these such think as a DIY Rhino Liner?
