......and this is what I'm looking at. Looks pretty bad under here. Years of old fluids built up and sitting still down on the coast have made it pretty ugly. I'm going to get everything degreased and painted under while I'm doing my calvert racing shocks and relocation.
The reason for the post is.........what is everyone using to coat the undersides of these trucks? Frame paint? Something tougher? Not looking to spend a ton of money because this is by no means a show truck or anything like that, but I do want it to look a lot better than this. Thanks for any help.

 

I just used cheap black paint. I figured it was just going to get covered in crap again.

 

Good point!

 

clean and paint it

 

Por-15 is supposed to be some of the best stuff you can get and is still cheap too.

 

whats up with the 4 plates welded to the frame? looks like the bed mounts to them.

 

That exhaust sure looks familiar...

As for paint, I have been using a rust inhibiting paint by Valspar that is working pretty well. It is a satin black and helps the suspension/chassis blend in and be unobtrusive.

 

x2^^^^^^

 

This^ is more than good.

 

The truck appears to have had a 5th wheel installed in the bed at one time. Those plates are bolted to the frame and line up with holes drilled in the bed. There's a trailer plug in installed inside the bed as well. I'm going to remove those plates since it doesn't get any towing use anymore.