restoring front grill? (1 Viewer)

[bigbrown]

has anyone brought their front grill and headlight doors back to like new condtion? how do you do that?

pics?

with my brown rig i'm not sold on the blacked out look.


thanks,

andy

 

[tonkota]

I painted (with a brush) all the black parts of the grill black. I didn't tape anything, and it only took an hour or so. Big improvement. The chrome is still not perfect, but it looks much better.

 

[Tapage]

New one .. and headlamps rings ... all painted in black.

 

[bigbrown]

man that black looks sweet on most 60's but on brown?

 

[PAFJ]

IMO looks pretty sweet!!


https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=82197&highlight=brown+60

 

[hammer1]

tapage...who made that sweet bumper?

 

[beaufort-fj60]

I've been kicking around the idea of repainting the grill and light bezels, but I'm not sold on the blackout look on the brown cruisers. I'm trying to track down the modern Toyota gray. The base tundra's front and rear bumpers are dark gray, I'm trying to find the color code for that. seems like Toyota is keeping that info top secret, seeing I cannot find any reference to the color existing.

 

[bigbrown]

mine is so faded that i can't even tell what the original front grill should look like.

i definately want the original look though.

do you have to have the chrome re dipped or something?

 

[Tapage]

tapage...who made that sweet bumper?

ME .. it's very easy, 4x4 channel 2 cuts, good welder ( this one is not me ) and some paint ..

 

[Pluton]

I never liked the chrome grills, so I "restored" my chrome grill by purhasing a used OEM non-chrome("black painted" in the SOR catalog)grill and headlight doors and damn, they look better than the chrome ones, IMO. Only thing I've ever done to the car for cosmetic reasons only.

 

[Front Range 4x4]

Here's more: https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=74119

 

[3puttcop]

Black Grill....

 

[FISHO60]

New one .. and headlamps rings ... all painted in black.

Hi bud where did you get the new grill and surrounds from pls