Nice work!

That's my next project. I don't know if I'm going with paint or Line-X. I still can't decide.

 

Wow what a big difference, looks great. Do you have to take anything off/cover anything at all to paint the wheel wells? and how long did all that take you?

Really interested in painting my wheel wells if its not too tough.

 

That looks really good man.

 

I just found my next project Looks great!

 

looks great man

 

[QUOTE=weazel;3641635]Sure will, i used Rustoleum paint, made for metal

Was it just regular rustoleum paint, or a special type they offer? What type of gloss was it regular or semi-gloss?

Also, what prep did you do? Did you wash and dry the frame before hand? Did u scrape the rust or sand the frame first?

I am looking to do this to my 05, I have blacked out the chassis on my 99, but it didnt look as good as your truck. hoping new info/tips so i can do a better job on mine.

 

Impressive.

 

Very nice!
I've been doing mine, or at least keeping up with it as well. I prefer flat black because it looks like factory new, and i use Tremclad flat black rust paint.
It's really no effort at all when you keep up with it. I usually just do a touch up every spring and it handles the salt from winter roads beautifully.

I find it's usually the seam areas like this that need a touch up more often than anything else, other than the trailer hitch receiver.



I spray down the areas I want to do with Simple Green. Pressure spray it off. Let it dry. Use a wire brush on the troubled spots. Bring a rag soaked in mineral spirits to wipe down the areas I want to touch up and blast them with the paint can. Done! It's no effort at all, and much less effort than polishing the paint.

 

I just finished my painting; amazing difference, I highly recommend people going out and giving it a shot... Anything is better then that brown.

 

Not to jack your thread, but since it's the same topic I just did some touch ups too. We just had a snowfall and they went and salted the roads again, so please excuse the salt under there. It will come off eventually.

I did the frame area in certain spots as well but I only snapped a few quick shots of the back end:

 

If the paint holds up for yall, It's gonna be on my list of things to do. Looks awesome.

 

It needs a touch up every spring, but it looks like new in between touch ups. That took me very little time to do because I keep up with it and it only needed touch ups in spots. Tremclad seems to handle the winter fairly well.

 

Ironically enough I was under my truck washing the frame and under carraige off today. After it started raining on me (both the garden hose and actual precipitation) I came in the house and called it quits for the day.

Hopefully the weather will be nice next week and I can get a coat of fresh paint under there!

 

I think this was one of my most favorite and cheapest mods to do!!

 

Okay, I noticed a potential probem...

My truck has been completly under-coated with that textured under coating. It isn't flaking off, rusting or anything of that nature, but it doesn't really come clean either. Is there a way to clean that stuff and make it shiny, or is that textured stuff not capable of looking good? Can I paint over it, or will I have to strip it off?