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It gets rust-protected annually as well (the salty roads here in Nova Scotia would murder it in cold blood otherwise).

Any time I see rust starting through, I take it to the local body shop and get them to repair it before it gets worse. It’s a cheap Korean econobox, but I LOVE the thing and have gone through a lot in my life with it and it’s more like a loyal pet than a car at this point. It’s the same for me, except (laugh all you want), that car is my 2009 Hyundai Accent hatchback. Yes, but there are some vehicles we just bond with and see as more than just ‘a car’ – I imagine that is a big part of that Jeep J10 for David. The result is that the J10’s flare looks like this: The Golden Eagle’s rear flare is a boxed-off section with a gigantic void that traps crud. Check out the J10’s design notice how it’s open: The Golden Eagle also suffers from a horrible rear wheel flare design. Here’s my Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle’s door, which is the same as the J10’s: The bottoms of the doors also act as swimming pools until they create their own drains using Fe2O3 as a battering ram. Other problem areas include the door jambs, which collect water if the vehicle is left to sit too long: The result? I’ve already got a few pinholes in my beautiful Brooks Stevens-designed hood. Look at the two pieces of metal jammed up against each-other, unsealed, with plenty of space for dirt and moisture to get in between. My first thought was that I could just take out my turn signal lenses and clean out that area behind the metal: Take the rust starting to poke through the front of the truck, just below the grille: There are far too many unsealed junctions between two pieces of sheetmetal, and those junctions lead to voids that take on dirt and moisture but can’t be cleaned out. In many ways, the Jeep J10 is a great example of what not to do to avoid rust issues. Look at all of that dirt! Hell, I’m not even sure “dirt” is the right word it’s mud! There’s filth and moisture trapped in that channel! If I don’t cut this open, remove the dirt, and treat that channel, my bedside will rust out, and - given that the bedside isn’t just a straight piece of metal (it’s arched) - the repair will not be easy. I decided to check out the state of this rust-prone area by sliding under my truck and drilling a hole into the bottom of the channel (I drilled between the welds shown in the diagram). Shown above is the “rust area” of my J10 - a little channel just above the bed seam that you see on the outside of the truck this is where where rust tends to form. Over time, the dirt and grime making contact with the outer bedside - from the inside – yields rust, which gradually eats its way through the steel until it’s showing through the paint. This channel lets filth get into a void below (called the “rust area”), allowing the grime to rest against the outer bedside sheetmetal. The bottom of that void, where the most dirt and moisture settles, includes a tiny channel between the outer bedside and a sheetmetal crease (you can see the innards if you click on that forum link bbelongia cut his bed open). Anything that gets into that void is trapped. You’ll notice that there’s a big void between the inside of the bedside and the outsider. There, someone named bbelongia wrote a post in 2015 titled “Bed seam rust – why it happens.” That post includes a cutaway drawing of the inner structure of full-size Jeep bedsides.

That led me to the Full-Size Jeep Network forum, or FSJ Network. I’m really not sure, but noticing the bedside rust problem on so many other J10s prompted me to dig into the cause of the issue so I could keep my J10 from crumbling.

Perhaps it was because my truck, which only had about 72,000 miles on it when I bought in North Carolina, always had a cap over the bed and was stored inside a big pole barn. “How have I avoided the rusty fate of so many J10s?” I’ve spent far too much of my life wondering.

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There’s a little bit of rust at the crease, where dirt and moisture has gotten caught in the crack from the outside, but it’s nothing major. Take a look at any Jeep J10 for sale today (I’ve included some above), and - unless it’s been restored or spent all of its life in a dry climate like Arizona - I bet it’s suffering from significant rust on the bedsides, just above the crease that separates the flat center of the bedside and the more arched lower bedside. Image: AutoTrader Image: AutoTrader Image: Facebook Marketplace Image: Facebook Marketplace A post shared by The Autopian for these reasons that I will never sell the J10, which is why I am so concerned about the rust problem threatening to cost me thousands of dollars if I don’t act quickly.

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