'05 Corrosion advice Most appreciated....

There are many tutorials on the internet that will get you going and with time and some scraps of steel you will get better.

TillymintDLG
An often overlooked spot for rust is the rear upper spring seat. Especially inside the rubber cone! Spring seat mount has a hole on the top which collects water. This hole drains the water directly into the rubber cone which traps the water and keeps the mount internally wet even in dry wheater! When this small bit of metal whithin the rubber is gone the spring will dislocate. Try to avoid this obviously. Just because you cannot see any rust outside it does not mean there it's no heavy rust inside the rubber cones!

Thanks for the tip Hun!
Is it part no 4?


At the mo, I can't get on my drive to do these jobs....
I asked my Son months ago could I come down to his and have a good look underneath,
he has plenty of room! He said OK but then had to cancel because of the WooFloo...
Gaz

The rear rubber cones
I popped a hole in the point,so it can't collect water

Good idea Jack! Maybe it doesn't rain in Japan?
Gaz

Hi Gaz, yes No.4 is the one I meant. Whilst I was trying to pull and turn to remove the cone it produced a wierd sound like smashing bread crumbs :dry: Then the tip of the cone fall down and a good amount of rust mixed with dirt poured out through the hole. My Jimny is also 05 reg so there is chance for this on yours as well.