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.


Here is a sample pic of a 6 year old mount
So i go ahead and clean every thing up



And install new mounts



At this point I have the frame all most 100% painted and step back to look at this..

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)


I thought "Hey why not get some bed liner and do the floor"
UH OH!



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.



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 + = unsteady hands)


And here is the second coat..

 

Dont reply yet I have more

 

I have couple Civic seats I am thinking about putting in (later)


HMMM i think she needs a coat of paint..


so I think to myself "flat black would be easy to maintain"
I started with the front bumper --the snowball got bigger--





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.


Back in black!



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



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



the other side...



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.

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!

 

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.

 

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 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.