Need paint reccomendations.

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For $2 I buy a lid with a spout as well.

 

Anyone ever use eastwoods rubberized undercoating?

 

How about 3M undercoating? It's expensive, but I'll bet it's good stuff. I've used the stuff with asphalt in it in before on my old truck..wasn't impressed.

 

used 3M ruberized undercoating quite a bit. Painted over it. Worked good for me.

 

I have a couple of brand new cans of 3m rubberized whatever. Its in a spray can. I tested it out, it bubbled up then it settled really rubbery. Looked good, but I wasn't sure if it would last or not. I kinda could rub it off with my thumb if I pressed really hard. Is this what your talking about? It was like 8 bucks a can.

 

Hi

I started with the same paint questions. My learning experience came from my 65 thunderbird. I was going for show quality and spent hundreds of hours preping and priming. I used 5 coats of primer and sanded inbetween. The paint was a two part epoxy. It was duponts chroma base, and for inferno red it is $130 a quart plus $30 a pint for activator. Then it needs a two part clear coat. At about $30/per quart. I did 5 coats of paint and 5 more of clear. It looked really good when done, but its near impossible to fix scratches with out re-painting and it was really expensive even doing it myself. Two years later It still looks good, but I don't think it was worth it.

When I bought a 78 f350 for under 1000 and wanted a nice looking work horse I learned from the experience. I bought a single gallon of industrial "saftey red" paint from nappa. It was $42 for a full gallon and needed no mixing.

It was a work truck so why not give it a try. I bought the truck on a thursday, taped off the chrome and glass friday, did about two hours of real quick sanding to scratch the surface of the old paint and remove the rust. I poured the unmixed industrial coating in the sprayer and pointed it at the truck. By sundown saturday the entyre truck was done. It looked great and I have really beat up the truck alot. It moves metal wood lumber and tools all the time not to mention plays in the brush. The paint even in the bed is still in good shape after all the abuse and two NY winters.

Its not super shinny but it looks good. Actually I had a hard time getting classic plates when i described it as an F350,They said it was a work truck, but one I had the inspector look at it, he said it looked great and handed me classic plates. I did not mention that I only spent "a weekend" and a $45 paint job " on the restoration.

I am planning to do the jeep with a similar industrial paint from a place called tractor supply. This has much more shine.

If your more worrid about price and ease to shoot its not a bad option. Btw its no where near as toxic as the dupont automotive epoxy I used on the T-bird.

 

nope that's like the stuff GM used to use on trucks in the 80's and 90's would wash off with a power washer. The other kind dries hard and textured like bedliner. Builds up pretty well. Dries to a hard surface, I think it was $8 at one time probably a little more now. Haven't bought it in about 3 or 4 years.

 

The 3M stuff I saw a while back was in kind of an oversize spray can, and was something like $17 a can . For that money, I figured it's gotta be pretty good. . Wish I could find whatever GM put on the underside of my '60 Olds...the only way I've found to remove it is by lighting it on fire while welding close to it .

 

There's several guys here who have used tractor paint. I've been experimenting with Van Sickle tractor paint, and I've been pretty impressed so far. You can buff it out to a really nice shine. It won't look like it's soaking wet all the time like a bc/cc will, but then no early CJ ever did . It's probably actually pretty close to what Willys used for paint.

 

I have a '57 3b that I did a frame up rebuild, not restoration on, that I power washed the frame with a sand feed on the nozzle and use rustolem rusty metal primer and then rustolem black satin paint out of a sprayer. I have brake fluid leaking on it that isn't taking the paint off. The only spots that are rusting are the spots that the paint got scratched off from added mods. I am also planting the body with rusty metal primer and rustolem professional royal blue, not as dark as the can, and am very please with the total of $60 from primer to clean up all said and dune. (last coat goes on tues, going to start a build thread soon so you can see resaults)