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| This is what I have to work with. It looks like somebody puked strawberry's all over. I cant stand to see it anymore so I'm going to paint it. The frame had the typical scaley rust then it got hit by a ton of overspray during the paint job. |
| These look the same right? well actually these are after I scraped with a household paint scraper(worked suprisingly good),then got all the nooks and cranny's with a gasket scraper,then wire brushed the whole damn thing then washed it! looks like crap still, but at least the paint and undercoating will addhear well. |
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| Whats this you say? two projects at once? no mere mortal should have to perform this task, let alone want too. But here I am anyway, trying to make the grill nice and shiny. The factory painted the horizontal bars and the part around the headlights a dull grey color. I found if you polish it with very very fine steel wool the paint comes of and the beautifull chrome comes out. you can see from the picture i have got the bottom three done and the top four to go. |
| Next pics should be of the frame all painted and purty. Hopefully within the next day or two. |
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| IT'S DONE! ... well, almost |
| One coat of black primer and one coat of aerosol can undercoating. some spots I had to hit second time with the undercoat, but it covered pretty well. The overspray wasn't bad at all. I draped the whole jeep with plastic and taped of by the wheel wells just in case.Even got a free buzz because I forgot to crack open the garage door. That sucked. |
| The wheel well looks a million times better. Someday I plan on installing a Rusty's 4 inch spring lift, so at least it wont look crappy behind the wheel |
| I'm very happy with these results. The only bad part is the almost bit. I only have one side done. So it's back out to the garage. |
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| I still haven't gotten around to polishing the rest of this lousy grill. I keep hoping elves or something will do it while I'm not looking. |
| Archived 2/03/03 |