Cheap paint job time!

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kibatheloanwolf
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Well I have gotten tired of the rust scratches and the dull pearl white so I went to town and got some spray paint... Let me know what yall think

Before



After





And here is the air cleaner cover

More photos to come
Modified by kibatheloanwolf at 11:00 AM 7/8/2009


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kibatheloanwolf
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Okay heres more

Got a radio!



Just a lil bit of touching up left for the bed










mrecoolgar
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Looking good.And if you do a light wet sanding it will help with the blending.My bed and cap still don't match the rest of the truck thou.I had rust on my original body panels as well.I used rust converter to tide me over.I was fortunate to get good, color matching panels from a Pathfinder.

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kibatheloanwolf
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Should I just go ahead and blacken the rims out?

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Denver90Q
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kibatheloanwolf wrote:Should I just go ahead and blacken the rims out?
Yes, It looked better before.

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kibatheloanwolf
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Thank you for posting i am currently having a yard sale to get some parts lol

Hb_Kidd
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that bad boy is sitting high. But paitn wise it looks good. Im gonna attepmt to do my own body work/ paint to my truck this weekend. Funny thing is that my truck is my DD.

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Felipe
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paint the rest... (wheels too)

let dry for 2 hot days

wet sand all of the car

rinse

let it dry good for about a day

repaint whole car again (this time around paint will look real nice)

let dry

tint windows

bed liner paintdone.


Modified by Felipe at 4:43 AM 7/21/2009

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kibatheloanwolf
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Going to a u-pull 23 miles away to see if i can snag a Pathfinder front end ad some seats and such


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