The mod snowballeffect. Poly Body mounts
 

I had a set of Energy suspension body bushings in my garage for about a year now. SO I decided to install them. Big mistake.
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Here is a sample pic of a 6 year old mount
So i go ahead and clean every thing up

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And install new mounts

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At this point I have the frame all most 100% painted and step back to look at this..
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After I yank the chrome trim off of the sides I find that there is a 3" strip of 3m sticky tape residue that nothing can panetrate. But more on that later.

Since I had the interior ripped out (to clean the mount holes)
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I thought "Hey why not get some bed liner and do the floor"
UH OH!

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I thought maybe I should take it down to the bare metal, easy right? This little spot took me two hours with a chisle and a hammer.

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God I love air tools. 45 mins later and one oops (speed hole in the floor) I got most of the sound deadner up.

It took some 80 grit and acetone to clean every thing up to apply the bed liner. BTW I used the Duplicolor kit that we sell at Advance Auto Parts

Here is the first coat.. (sorry for the crappy photo fumes + :drink: = unsteady hands)
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And here is the second coat..
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Dont reply yet I have more

I have couple Civic seats I am thinking about putting in (later)
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HMMM i think she needs a coat of paint..
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so I think to myself "flat black would be easy to maintain"
I started with the front bumper --the snowball got bigger--
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This is after I had to use Aircraft paint remover to get that damm 3M tape off. That and some 80 grit on my electric drill.

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Back in black!

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The we get in some Camo paint at work and I scoop up a few cans of tan. .

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I did a quck test on the rear quarter panel..:drink: I like it!
and here is the result......

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...a/P3280010.jpg

the other side...

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...a/P3280011.jpg

I still need to find the bumper bolts and finnish the radiator cover I made out of stretched steel. and bolt everything back up.

Oh yeah I will also be getting rid of the ricer yellow gas tank skid and sway bar ASAP. LOL I was going to paint the bish John deer green and yellow a few years back. :dunno:

LOCKnGO

nice. so how long did it take you to do all that????

oh, and you have a problem. you need a 12-step program for sure! :hillbill:

Wow dude, that's what i call motivation! those fumes really got you pumped!

Awesome job. I dig it. I realiy do. Thought about spray painting my Hilux the same sand color you did, but never got the courage to really do it.

What would have I done differently? I would have done the grill black. and the whole truck tan. I'm not too crazy about the camo spots, maybe if you were to do more and/or smaller spots it would look better. The large spots kinda resemble cow spots. In any case, it looks really cool, congrats!

I like the paint job. It looks good.

How many cans of spray paint does it take to spray paint a truck?

you could always do a black blob across the front to get the grill, etc black. that might look better anyway.

Looks awsome!

Here are a couple more.

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moo...

Sorry, first thing that came to my head.
I like it, sure wish I had that kind of ambition. Wow!

I'd say about 3 months, I work real slow..

Do it!

Thanks man, I did a lot of reasearch on camoflage and from what I learned it's all about breaking up the silloette(sp) When I am done I want to take some shots of me hiding in the bushes. Florida Ninja style. (mossey oak need not apply). I would have bought a paint $prayer and done it right.

I thought that too. :) at first. but it didn't look right. i just hope the love bugs don't mess it too bad.

Too many I think I lost count :drink: LOL

self etching primer = 5-7 cans
Primer = 6-9 cans
primer sealer = 6 cans
rust fix flat black = 10-12 cans --still some left
Camo Tan = 6 cans -- 1 can left

Damn thats alot of $$ for rattle can paint! and that doesen't include the sanding disks and paint remover *EEK

wow man. I thought I was hooked to spray paint .. but your job takes the cake.

looks great

so, about 35 or so cans, at an average of $2 per can... $70! wow, i could have gotten a gallon of a nice single-stage automotive paint for that and painted it about 4 times over!

the nice paint at auto-zone and advanced is closer to $4 a can.

i dig it!!! no hit up a set of clear sidemarker lights and turns...then you will be effin set....

looks like a cow now!!!

No way, I really like it. It is very original. But if it was a 4 runner it would look more like a cow. Anyway I'd rather have cow than flames.