An undercoat and 4366.2 miles

[Backpacker]

Hello all! I am finally headed back up to Alaska to reunite with some of my Comanche parts and start up work as a mechanic again. I'll be shipping up the MJ since she's not quite good enough to make the trip at the moment. Excited to have her there, but oh my goodness the salt is GNARLY, and will be worse this winter. I'll hopefully be welding in floor pans and stripping down the underside as soon as it arrives since I'll finally have a lift, and I figured that's as good a time as any to try and do some protection and prevention. Does anyone have advice for a non-permanent solution to undercoating? I want something on it for the next year or two until I do the final paint and real undercoat (very loose schedule obviously), it's really just to buy me time until I do it right. Best idea I could come up with is putting linseed oil into a weed-killer sprayer and then going over it with some rags but I am worried that it would not last. 

 

In addition, anyone who has had experience shipping vehicles PLEASE SHARE, I would love advice for how to prep the truck for transportation before I fly out.

Thanks!

[ghetdjc320]

Grab a gallon of fluid film black and coat things. Pretty much the entire underside save for exhaust and brakes can be coated. Works well for shipping and will typically last for last for several months to a year. The shipping containers themselves tend to be rust buckets inside. Good idea to opt for a cover as rust from the  inside roof ceiling of the shipping container tends to fall on the truck during transport. 
 

As to prepping a vehicle for lots of salt and corrosion, checkout some of the work I did on my latest build. I have to deal with 24/7 salt spray.