wimpywade94

Just a quick question, how do you change the color of a 1st gen top? its red now, and i want it black later when i paint the truck, do i just paint the top?

thanks for the help

wade

superjoe83

ya, pretty much, you can sand the texture if you want it smooth

wimpywade94

Any other ways that you know of?

i may end up just painting it, but i like the texture of it right now, and how it looks, but im painting the truck green at the end of the summer and i want the top black.

wade

superjoe83

when i painted my top, i lightly sanded it mainly to remove paint that the previous owner had put on it, i didn't sand all of the texture off but when it was painted it came out smooth, so if you plan on painting it, expect to loose the texture

DudeBud

get some red scuff pads. scuff it up real good the paint should stick very nicely. if you do end up sanding the texture off you could try to lightly blow some paintable undercoating to get the texture back.

waskillywabbit

iTrader: (-1)

Flat Black Rustoleum - 4-5 cans for less than $20 and have at it.

Spending $$$ on a paint job for a wheeled rig is like giving a pig a bath.

Mine is flat black Rustoleum and it looks great as it used to be white. Didn't do anything to it when I painted it but wash it w/ some dishwashing detergent to get the bird crap/grease off the pseudo paint.

seaflea

Dudebud has a thread about painting his rig. In it he describes how to take apart the top and prep it for paint.
Here is the link paint

seaflea

Just noticed..... its also listed in his sig line.
Nice work IMHO.