guys keep the chassis clean on limited use cars? I don't mean dirt and waterspots, I mean cobwebs and spider egg *****. I just noticed this while I was doing some minor work under my 78. A year ago, it was completely clean, now it's filthy from just sitting, while waiting for her new engine

 

3 ways
1 your rich and can afford to havee someone detail it monthly
2 keep the car in a controlled enviornment
3 be obsessed with your car and spend more time with it than with your family

 

So true. Regular attention on some kind of schedule. Its could be just a damp towel, the usual shop vac or compressed air.

 

Cover the car and set off a couple of bug bombs. Use Ortho Home Defense around the foundation inside and out and up in the rafters by the top plates if the ceilings unfinished. I do this regularly in the basement too as they like to climb out of the floating slab crack. Keeps them dam big black spiders that you can paint racing stripes on away for many months 6-8+ months!

 

Live in the frozen wastelands like I do.

 

But then what about the ice mites?

 

Ice mites don't like dry garages or painted metal surfaces...they only thrive and play in the snow. In the spring they die off and leave their decomposing bodies in the form of 'snow mold'. Thought you knew that Dan

 

It's the metal eating termites that drive ya nuts in the far north. Getting back to the OP you need to take it out for a "clear the cobwebs" ride.

 

DAMMIT!! You beat me to it.

 

Maybe I wasn't clear, "waiting for new engine" equals NO engine. I figured someone would say that and I was thinking it, but not sure if the wife can push it that fast

 

OH MY. You may have to get the kids out there too.

A water hose and then get under it and dry it off with some old towels.

 

I guess this is a real incentive to get that engine you have always wanted. You can justify this to your wife by explaining that you will be saving her the effort of pushing to get the cobwebs out!

 

Well with no engine in it, should be no problem getting in the bay and dusting it down. Maybe to get rid of some of the settled dust you could use compressed air and a short handled dust broom? I use one like this and it gets into nooks and crannies nicely. The compressed air behind it gets stuff moving really nicely.

 

If the worst thing you have to worry about is cobwebs under your car, where you can't see them anyway, go inside, pat yourself on the back, and open a beer, because you've done pretty well for yourself in life.

- Eric

 

Engine was coming along until I went back to work from my broken ankle. The day I went back, they laid myself and 10 others off. That was 2 months ago, so car is on back burner except for minor dodads that I can afford.