Post by greenjeep on Apr 2, 2006 13:13:50 GMT -5
Well, after almost 4 years of waiting, my Jeep is all one color again!!!!!!!!!!
One of my good friends, Russ, got a degree in auto body repair, and he volunteered to come down and help me paint it. So Friday night we started the prep work. After removing the headlights, taillights, turn signals, winch, gas filler, cowl vent, hood latches and tie downs we started sanding.
Then we sanded.
And sanded.
And sanded some more.
The tub had been in a forest fire before I bought it, so before it was installed I had it sandblasted and primered, so the sanding on the tub wasn’t too bad. The tailgate and hood were it pretty good shape with a good coat of paint on them already, so they weren’t too bad either. The grill, on the other hand, had a bunch of chips on it, so I spent almost 2 hours sanding it; I wasn’t able to make it perfect, but it does look much better. The new tube fenders, hood hoop, rock sliders/side step were all painted with white spray paint, to keep off rust, before I got it back. These proved to be the most time consuming since we had to sand ALL the spray paint off to ensure the primer and paint would adhere well. The two of us spent about 3 hours getting the new parts back down to bare metal. We gave the front bumper a quick sanding, since it needed a new coat of paint anyway. My new trail corners courtesy of the Moab 4x4 Outpost were bare metal and just need to be scratched up a bit to help the paint stick. At about 2am we called it a day. I was so covered in paint dust from the green grill and hood that I looked like a leprechaun!!!
We hit it again Saturday about 8ish after a brief stop to get some needed supplies, plus a case of Mt. Dew
!! Next step was blowing off as much dust as we could with an air compressor. Then we wiped it down with a grease/wax remover. At this point we covered and taped off everything we didn’t want painted. Last step before firing up the spray gun was to wipe it down with a track cloth to remove any remaining dust or lint.
After mixing up the primer real well, we started shooting. The primer went on really smooth and looked really good, although it did show up where we should have spent more time sanding. After letting it dry for a little while, we were ready for the green. The paint we got was a 1 part paint, which means it already has the clear coat in it. We did have to mix in an accelerant and a hardener at a 4-1-1 ratio. Then we sprayed!!
We got a real good layer of green on it, and it looked good, but wasn’t quite what I had in mind. It came out like a John Deere green, and with my plans for a yellow roll cage, I didn’t think it was what I wanted. So we experimented by adding some of our yellow paint to the green and after a few tries we got a color we both thought looked really good, we decided it was a Mt. Dew green.
We finished about 2pm and we both felt very good about it.
Here are some pics of the process on Saturday; I forgot the camera Friday night.
After sanding, before we started painting.
Thanks for the tailgate Todd! Those are my new 4x4 Outpost corners.
Final sanding.
The grill and hood hoop I spend HOURS sanding!!
All ready to start spraying!!!
First coat of primer.
All primered!!
Furst try with the green.
Here you can see the contrast between the first green and the final green.
Final coat.
ALL DONE
One of my good friends, Russ, got a degree in auto body repair, and he volunteered to come down and help me paint it. So Friday night we started the prep work. After removing the headlights, taillights, turn signals, winch, gas filler, cowl vent, hood latches and tie downs we started sanding.
Then we sanded.
And sanded.
And sanded some more.
The tub had been in a forest fire before I bought it, so before it was installed I had it sandblasted and primered, so the sanding on the tub wasn’t too bad. The tailgate and hood were it pretty good shape with a good coat of paint on them already, so they weren’t too bad either. The grill, on the other hand, had a bunch of chips on it, so I spent almost 2 hours sanding it; I wasn’t able to make it perfect, but it does look much better. The new tube fenders, hood hoop, rock sliders/side step were all painted with white spray paint, to keep off rust, before I got it back. These proved to be the most time consuming since we had to sand ALL the spray paint off to ensure the primer and paint would adhere well. The two of us spent about 3 hours getting the new parts back down to bare metal. We gave the front bumper a quick sanding, since it needed a new coat of paint anyway. My new trail corners courtesy of the Moab 4x4 Outpost were bare metal and just need to be scratched up a bit to help the paint stick. At about 2am we called it a day. I was so covered in paint dust from the green grill and hood that I looked like a leprechaun!!!
We hit it again Saturday about 8ish after a brief stop to get some needed supplies, plus a case of Mt. Dew
!! Next step was blowing off as much dust as we could with an air compressor. Then we wiped it down with a grease/wax remover. At this point we covered and taped off everything we didn’t want painted. Last step before firing up the spray gun was to wipe it down with a track cloth to remove any remaining dust or lint.After mixing up the primer real well, we started shooting. The primer went on really smooth and looked really good, although it did show up where we should have spent more time sanding. After letting it dry for a little while, we were ready for the green. The paint we got was a 1 part paint, which means it already has the clear coat in it. We did have to mix in an accelerant and a hardener at a 4-1-1 ratio. Then we sprayed!!
We got a real good layer of green on it, and it looked good, but wasn’t quite what I had in mind. It came out like a John Deere green, and with my plans for a yellow roll cage, I didn’t think it was what I wanted. So we experimented by adding some of our yellow paint to the green and after a few tries we got a color we both thought looked really good, we decided it was a Mt. Dew green.
We finished about 2pm and we both felt very good about it.
Here are some pics of the process on Saturday; I forgot the camera Friday night.
After sanding, before we started painting.
Thanks for the tailgate Todd
! Those are my new 4x4 Outpost corners.Final sanding.
The grill and hood hoop I spend HOURS sanding!!
All ready to start spraying!!!
First coat of primer.
All primered!!
Furst try with the green.
Here you can see the contrast between the first green and the final green.
Final coat.
ALL DONE
