Driveway paintjob progress

Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp compressor setup.

You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3 foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped just such a paint job off.

It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat green paint on a Jeep :)

I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably throw some pics up myself soon.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:36:51 -0400, Simon Juncal shared the following:

Yeah, yesterday afternoon I stripped all of the stuff off I needed to, then first thing this morning my wife and I started sanding. After we sanded it down about 2/3 of the way, we started taping off stuff. We taped most of it off, then I started painting while my wife finished the sanding and taping. It's not a perfect job by far. But we did scuff the blue paint pretty good all over before spraying over it. This Jeep is going to see a lot of trail time including some decently thick woods. I expect the paint job to get abused pretty badly so I didn't even try to make it perfect. It's a "10 footer" paint job.

I agree. I had several people tell me they liked the blue color, but it just wasn't for me.

Cool. I'm gonna put some more pics up soon after I do the Herculiner coating and finish the little touch-ups that need to be done tomorrow. The headers I ordered should be here Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Next weekend I'll put those on and post pictures of that. It's coming together fast. :-)

-- Travis

Wow! Looks good! Can you come over to my house and work on my TJ? ;-)

LMAO!! - Haven't I seen you at Maaco?

-Brian