Painting the flares on my 80...

[Skillet]

I am going to paint the flares on my white 80 with trim black.

Does not need to be perfect as I am sure the first trip out, I will scratch them.

Clean, sand, use prep-all and paint. No primer.

What should be the final grit on the sand paper before painting?

 

[bthelton]

If they are chipped or scratched i would sand them with 180 or 220 to feather them out .The i would get a red scotch brite pad from local pant store and scrub them with COMET not ajax because it leaves an oily film. Let em dry and paint them black. Good luck

 

[Skillet]

Well, I used 100 to rough em' up then steel wool to smooth em out a bit.

Washed with dish soap then cleaned with prep-all.

Sprayed with SEM trim black.

You can see some very light scratches in the sunlight.

oh well. You guys gonna call me on it when you see me?

 

[CaliCruiser]

I'll make sure to point it out

Dylan

 

[Skillet]

Should I be using duraliner type material instead of the trim black paint.

What do you paint experts think?

 

[Sno bored]

I used Herculiner on my flares and I am happy with the results. I also did the bottom section of my truck while I was at it. I got new flare gaskets from Cruiser Dan because the old ones were a little messed up and they were grey. I went with black flare gaskets and I like the look.

 

[Skillet]

Just because I know you are all riveted to my thread...

I used Dupli-Color bed liner in the spray can instead of Trim Black.

Looks great and hides many more sins than paint alone.

 

[85+92]

bed liner would hide 50 grit scartches btw I never paint over anything less then 320

 

[Skillet]

bed liner would hide 50 grit scartches btw I never paint over anything less then 320

I only had 150 grit scratches in mine.

They did show through in the sunlight with paint.

Bedliner covered it up nicely.

 

[brownbear]

Just because I know you are all riveted to my thread...

I used Dupli-Color bed liner in the spray can instead of Trim Black.

Looks great and hides many more sins than paint alone.

I used the duplicolor on my 60. It's tough stuff from what I can see. I used a whole gallon spraying it with an undercoat gun. Rockers, rear 1/4 panels and rear wheel wells.

 

[Skillet]

They turned out pretty darn nice.

Here is the link to the pics I posted in tech.

 

[RockDoc]

How's the duplicolor liner holding up guys? Found it for a decent price (I think, like $35 a gallon) at Princess Auto tonight and I need something to line the bottom half of my 62 and maybe do the floor.