FJ40 garage paint job finally done! (1 Viewer)

[Captn Conch]

It took 8 months to do what I thought was to be a 2 to 3 week DIY paint job in my 2 car garage.
Turned into a rehab job. Black Epoxy Primer from Summit Racing, Single Stage Acrylic Urethane Rescue Green Metallic from TCP Global Paints. Totally satisfied with product quality of both. BTY I'm no painter and a metallic paint job increases difficulty level. I do have some runs but actually I think they look somewhat psychedelic...They are staying and are now part of it's character.

 

[Captn Conch]

 

[Captn Conch]

The old lacquer paint was beat, would shine up then haze quickly, I had just waxed it prior to "before" photo. New Coral upholstery from SOR Installed by sggoat Gary and myself. I left the dash the original aqua color as a tribute to the color that it was born with. It looked grizzly and gnarly before but it just needed a lot of cleaning and body maintenance/rehab that was over 4 decades in accumulation. My Son helped in the dirty work. Well so much for the quicky paint job, it's far from perfect, but it was applied right and with several layers of primer and urethane, rustproofed and undercoated. He is now ready for the next 40 years of duty!

 

[70fj40]

Nice job. Did you tarp off a "paint booth" in the garage?

 

[Captn Conch]

Actually no, but I did throw tarps over most of the stuff in the garage. Cleaned floor as best as possible cracked the garage door open about a foot, opened screened door window opposite garage door all the way and put fan in front of screen. Quite a fog after each coat. . For the relatively small amount of money invested in paint and prep materials, it actually came out better than I anticipated! Main goal of coverage and protection accomplished. I truly do get compliments and thumbs up just about every time we Cruise. But what effort it took. I now understand why a decent commercial paint job cost so much....LABOR!

 

[Helipilot]

Nice job Captn! Like the color.

 

[deanfj40]

I have about the same amount of rust on my fj40 that you do in the bed. How did you take car of it before painting?

 

[JCruse]

Really cool color! The truck looks amazing.

I'd like to hear about the rust prep too. I've recently been experimenting with Evaporust for removing rust, which is excellent but hard to use on big parts, and Corroseal, which converts and primes surfaces, which I used on some door area spots.

 

[Captn Conch]

Really cool color! The truck looks amazing.

I'd like to hear about the rust prep too. I've recently nd surface rust,)been experimenting with Evaporust for removing rust, which is excellent but hard to use on big parts, and Corroseal, which converts and primes surfaces, which I used on some door area spots.

I had applied partial coat of POR 15 on the bed back in '90 and now I was glad it was only partial! I just did a lot of hand sanding with sanding blocks on the bed and floor, electric drill with cheap Harbor frieght wire brushes in crooks and crannies.. It took some effort but fortunately the bed was mostly original paint (and surface rust,)unlike the exterior body which was the damn lacquer, I didn't have to take all down to bare metal. The bed and floors were the first to receive the epoxy primer so I could finish the body up without the surface rust returning. For most other body parts I used the Aircraft paint stripper which took care of most of the lacquered body. That lacquer was a Pain in the Keister indeed!

 

[Tin basher]

Looks really good
Please take that chain off the front
Chains are quite dangerous to use as recovery equipment
Or if it falls off and you drive over the end of it
Bad things can happen
Like the colour on it