Excellent step by step Copenhagen1. Thanks for this.
Rattle can color that is close to OEM gray wheel color (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter RMally
- Start date
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
1Fine40
Rust Buster
Just a dumb question, but I gotta ask, where in the heck are you guys getting stock steelies?? Sure don't want to pay the dealer price, but if I must......
Cheers!
Cheers!
JohnnyC
Long ago TLCA# 2231
people get them from one of our vendor Toyota dealers.... like Beno... Sam.... or CDan for a Mud discount
Best price I found was from cruiserparts.net. Just got mine about a week ago.
1Fine40
Rust Buster
Gracias, I may go that route if the blasting isn't the deal breaker...I can paint them myself pretty easily..
I'm assuming you mean 'sand blast' and I would not sand blast new OEM wheels from Toyota. I have read that the black finish that they come in is a high quality primer. I would (and did) just scuff them up so the paint will adhere.
It is a high quality primer, that is very durable. Looked like paint to me. Some just run them black.
1Fine40
Rust Buster
I would only blast the used ones...factory primed and new will only get a shot of color
Cheers!
I would only blast the used ones...factory primed and new will only get a shot of color
Cheers!
Ok cool. I misunderstood your post. I just didn't want to see you make a mistake.
The 4 that are on my '77 I purchased used for, seems like, $25 or $30 a wheel plus shipping. My father in law owns a machine shop so the media blast was free.
When I needed a 5th for a spare, I purchased it new from Toyota.
1Fine40
Rust Buster
ANSI 49, it is used all over the place. Most notably, it is a standard electrical switchgear color. You can find it in many forms: aerosol, pint, powder. The photo I posted is powder.
I compared it to my OEM original 1971 40 series wheels, very close match. Last weekend, I compared it to another 40, I believe it was a 76, also a close match. By close, I mean dead on. Much closer than the can from CruiserCorps I
Here are cans: http://www.lowes.com/pd_89137-90-214646_0__?productId=3728111
1Fine40
Rust Buster
Cool! Thanks to all! Now I just need to get the wheels!!! (And then find the tires I want for those size wheels, which is also getting to be a challenge!!)
Cheers!
Cheers!
I agree ...not a bad match at all for $3.83 a can at walmart.
1Fine40
Rust Buster
Looks dandy to me as well...course on a computer monitor, it is never an exact science
Cheers!!
Cheers!!
The Valspar MF Gray is not a match. Looks good....but too dark.
My truck is a 12/78 build. Same owner since 83 until I bought it last month. Very original, low miles, and unmolested. All 5 rims have 12/78 date codes. I'm 99% sure they are wearing original paint. I removed the hubcaps, cleaned, steel-wooled, and then cleaned/degreased again. After doing this the color matched under the hubcap so I think any color change due to sun fading can be ruled out.
Pictures show one painted (on the truck) and one prepped for paint (w/ the masking tape).
My truck is a 12/78 build. Same owner since 83 until I bought it last month. Very original, low miles, and unmolested. All 5 rims have 12/78 date codes. I'm 99% sure they are wearing original paint. I removed the hubcaps, cleaned, steel-wooled, and then cleaned/degreased again. After doing this the color matched under the hubcap so I think any color change due to sun fading can be ruled out.
Pictures show one painted (on the truck) and one prepped for paint (w/ the masking tape).
I blasted my rims, used an acid etching primer (1) coat, then painted the entire wheel gloss black (2) coats with Rust-Oleum High Performance Enamel. I then painted just the face of the wheel with the same paint type only Dark Machine Gray (2) coats. I basically painted the rims one at a time with the first two done one weekend then the next two done throughout the week in the evenings. The first two rims came out great. - see first pic. But on the second two the gray paint wrinkled and checked badly. I thought maybe I re-coated too quickly so I re-blasted the two wheels, went through the same process but waited overnight for each consecutive coat. I only did one wheel at a time. Same result - the first coat of gray wrinkled faster than before. I called Rust-oleum and this was their instruction: Either re-coat within (1) hour or wait 48 hours before re-coating.
The ambient temp was about 65 for the first two rims and about 60 this last rim.
Thinking back to the first two wheels that came out nice....I probably did rush the re-coats so maybe that is the remedy. So back to the blast cabinet.
Anyone had this happen to them?
The ambient temp was about 65 for the first two rims and about 60 this last rim.
Thinking back to the first two wheels that came out nice....I probably did rush the re-coats so maybe that is the remedy. So back to the blast cabinet.
Anyone had this happen to them?
