What does it take to keep forklifts running reliably in salt? One of my accounts is a salt processing plant. We are having a lot more trouble than we expected (And a lot was expected) keeping our machines working in that place, and the rentals that have been through there continue to have more than their share of problems long after they've been cycled out. These are Nissan platinum series I/Cs. The problems are almost all electrical, it seems that the salt penetrates the electrical parts and wreaks havoc, it even gets into the harnesses and causes internal shorts.