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tonkota

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I found this today. Pretty dang nice I think. I's not Pig related I guess except for I am going to try this on my Pig. Thoughts?

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here's how i painted my car for about $50, it's actually very easy and the results are amazing. First off, get a can of tremclad real orange (or what ever color u want) in the can, not spray, yes tremclad, it is a acrylic/enamel paint which is very durable. next prep your car as if was any other paint job, fix all the rust, ect....no need to prime the car since the tremclad allready contains elements which allow it to be painted over bare metal. next, after prepping the car get a small 4" professional FOAM rollers, it's tiny and has one end rounded off, and the other cut straight, and is a very high density foam. u also need a jug of mineral spirits to thin the paint. The thing i really like about this is that there's no mess, no tapeing the whole car, just key areas, and u can do it in your garage, since your not spraying there is virtually no dust in the air, just clean your garage first, also it does'nt really smell at all, dries overnight and it super tough paint. also it you decide to paint the car professionally later, just prep and paint, there's no need to strip the tremclad. i have done this to a few cars, and i can say it works amazing, u just have to be paitient. next u thin the paint with mineral spirits so it just about as thin as water, a little thicker. get out the roller and paint away, don't get the paint shaked when u buy it, enamel is stirred, otherwise you'll have bubbles in the paint for a week!!! after u do 2 coats, wet sand the whole car, then repeat, 2 coats, wetsand, 2 coats wetsand. i painted the charger using a can since your not spraying the car u use all the paint and not spray 50% in the air, use progressivly finer sand paper each time. it's not really that much work, cause u can stop and start any time, u can do just a door, or the hood, ect. do one panel at a time, and don't stop once you start. once your done the final coat, wetsand with about 1000 grit to a totally smooth finish, and then using a high speed polisher i use a buffing bonnet and turtle wax polishing compound. do the whole car with this, and i'm telling u, depending on the amount of time and paitence you have, the results are amazing. laugh if you want, but for $50 ($30 for paint, about $20 for rollers, sand paper, ect...) it really looks good. also you can do these steps overnight, paint one evening and by morning u can wet sand. i have personally done alot of painting, mostly single stage acrylic enamel, and i've sprayed several cars in my garage with really good professional results, just it stinks, it's a real pain to do, easy to make a mistake, messy, and expensive. The tremclad is awesome paint, the "real orange" is an amazing hemi orange, and almost looks like it has some perl in the sun, awesome color right out of the can. I used this technique on my 1974 beetle also, here are the results:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/Picture10.jpg
the car before:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/IM000475.jpg

another after pic:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/DSC00164.jpg

here is a car i sprayed (71 beetle, midnight blue metalic):
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/DSC00194.jpg

here is the car before (71 beetle):
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/Picture1.jpg

here's a few pics of the charger done:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/DSC02764.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/69martin/DSC02769.jpg
 
I painted my old 55 with a roller. good 15 foot painjob, but I didn't do anything special.
lg-cm-2002-74.jpg
 
tonkota said:
what are those two square tubes on the back side of the grill guard? And is that grill modified? The TOYOTA is cut around.

I'm sure I will roller mine too. It's not in super condition, the usual abused Pig...
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They held some "sand ladders" on the front bumper in front of the two jacks. The grill was stock from a '79.
 
Hijack

PabloCruise said:
Brian, what is up with that shackle angle? Looks a little rough... As in rough ride.
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That tire was in a bit of a hole, but otherwise the springs were built (Alcans) 300# over stock in the front, with a 250#-lighter chevy V8 and an absent bullbar/PTO combination.

It was really stiff, but damn it cornered well. :D

/hijack
 
I tried it. It does work but it a hell of a lot of time to do right. I ended up just spraying the paint. Looks great and takes a hell of a lot less time.
 
That's a pretty incredible thread over forty pages! I think that a combo of the rustoleum/ tremclad paint, using a HF gravity feed HVLP, no primer, wet sand between coats, buff/ polish then possibly clear coat, buff/polish will get really nice results. I think that would get you the best compromise between cheap, easy-to-do and good looking results. At leats that is my plan for my 70 piggie. I will post pics when it is done.
 
I am working on a spray paint, paint job. So far it has turned out better then I would have thought. If you are interested check my signature, there are pictures of the never ending FJ55 project.

Ryan.
 
OK, just did this to my 60. I used white so I don't care about fading. Nothing a buffer can't fix up.

Now also let me tell you this process makes a dam nice paint job. But it takes fawking forever to do.

Heres the low down. I have no doors on my 60 right now. Just a hood.

I sanded the whole truck with 36 grit for POR-15. Welded in new metal, sand blasted the welds and new metal. Did all the POR-15 prep steps.

Painted 2 coats of POR-15. did body work with por brand filler. Very little. Then I scuffed the whole truck throughly with 220 grit paper. Were talking lots of hours till date already.

Then I painted tie coat primer. It sands nice. I wet sanded the whole truck with 400 grit. Nice and smooth.

Next I started the tremclad top coat just like the story above. Watered down thin white tremclad. 4 inch foam roller. The first coat you can't even see.

I did two coats of white. 2-3 hrs a coat. Waited overnight and then wet sanded with 800 grit. That took 3 hrs.

2,3rd coats rolled on, starting to fill in and it looks super smooth. Still 2-3hrs a coat, so 6 hrs of rolling each time. Next morning wet sand, with 1000 grit. 3 hrs.

Did a single coat could not get time for a 2nd ontop if it, next morning sanded.

Then two more coats wait over night and sand with 1000.

In all I did 7 coats of whites. And too many wet sands. I spent over a week doing it. Where as spraying would be done in one day.

But I did it in a dirty garage and didn't have to mask the heck out of it.

I still actually have areas I need to fix as the corners on a 60 are quite hard to sand. Same in the door ways.... I still need to do a 1500 grit sand and buff with the polishing compund.

But I did go all the way on the hood, it came out darn near perfectly smooth.

I know with my spraying skills I could not get this smooth of a paint job with out lots of wet sanding anyhow.

I'll post some pics later of the different stages, My camera is at work right now.
 
That sounds awesome, I can't wait to see it. I also recently did some painting. My first thoughts were to just get the surface rust to stop spredding, but after I started I decided to give the whole exterior a going over with some spray. I did a bunch of hours of pisspoor sanding. Being only able to do this on the weekend and only for about 5-6 hours before the Louisiana heat was killing me (I had no garage or cover over the vehicle), it took about 3 weekends of power sanding most of the truck down to metal. I then used Rustoleum sandable primer, followed by some additional sanding with a little 180 grit then followed again with 400. After that I sprayed on Krylon Pumkin Orange and White to keep the two tone effect. I did several coat, do to the tendancy to have drips if laying down too thick of a coat. I did some 400 grit wet sanding a few times inbetween to knock down most of the drips. After that I went over with some 1500 grit (wet sanded) and another light coat. Looks ok from a distance. Up close I left too many drips (after the 5-6 weekend I was tired of fooling with it) and some barely noticable overspray.

In the end I figure I used about 6 cans of primer, 16 cans of Orange 8 of the white. Add in all the sandpaper and painters tape for a total cost of about $125-140 or so. I'll post some before and afters soon.
 
My white tremclad used about 3 quarts of paint, plus 1/4 gallon of mineral spirits.

I had fears of paying to have an automotive paint sprayed on or me buying auto paint and then going into the bush with it. While I want a nice looking rig I realize there is nothing I like better than going up a deactivated logging road in search of a far flung lake to relax at. My "wheelin" consists of just that. Heavy ditches and over grown trails.
 
Where would someone go to get this custom mixed to match FJ60 Tan???

I'm thinking this will work for me.
 
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