Painted my factory Muffler/Resonator(Pics)

[Pathfinder3.5]

Pretty cheap mod for anyone who has a crusty looking factory Resonator or Muffler(Cant remember what its exactly called, one of the two)

Mine was preeety narsty. Got some Extreme Temp flat black manifold paint and gave it a few coats after cleaning it off a bit. Let me know what you guys think.
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After:

[Alfredo24.pr]

looks nice. before it looked rusty and did not match the car. Now everything looking extra nice

[Pathfinder3.5]

looks nice. before it looked rusty and did not match the car. Now everything looking extra nice

Yeah, It really blends nicely with the Rims and Trailer hitch(that doesn't even get used) now.

Now i gotta buy a can of rubberized undercoating and do the rest of the under carriage.

[Alfredo24.pr]

would look nice. miamiheat3332 did something like that. Its in his timeline my-pathfinder-timeline-t553296.html

[Pathfinder3.5]

would look nice. miamiheat3332 did something like that. Its in his timeline my-pathfinder-timeline-t553296.html

Thats exactly where i got the idea from aha

[Densetsu]

Any sanding of the rust, or did you just wipe it down?

My hitch is starting to get rust in the flat area where you attach the safety chains; I wonder if undercoating or rubberized coating would work. With my last Pathy I touched up that rust a few times with black spraypaint, but since I didn't clean off all the rust, it just returned within a few weeks.

[Alfredo24.pr]

haha cool

[miamiheat3332]

On my hitch i touch up any spots with black spray paint. Get the rustoleum one you can spray it over rust. The undercoat stuff and texture wont match the rest of the powdercoated hitch, when i touch up mine with black spray paint it blends all together.

[zach7685]

I have done this to all of my pathfinders at some point have o re do it or keep it very clean or mud stains appear

[Pathfinder3.5]

Any sanding of the rust, or did you just wipe it down?

My hitch is starting to get rust in the flat area where you attach the safety chains; I wonder if undercoating or rubberized coating would work. With my last Pathy I touched up that rust a few times with black spraypaint, but since I didn't clean off all the rust, it just returned within a few weeks.

Doh....only wiped it off really good. I'll see how it holds up. If it doesn't do so well ill just sand it down and start fresh.

[patqx4]

looks good man. I doubt it will last too long, but I suppose it's not much effort to respray every so often. nice work

[Pathfinder3.5]

looks good man. I doubt it will last too long, but I suppose it's not much effort to respray every so often. nice work

Yeah, it literally took me 5 minutes to do about 3 coats. Not too shabby at all.

[Chuck Tribolet]

Any sanding of the rust, or did you just wipe it down?

My hitch is starting to get rust in the flat area where you attach the safety chains; I wonder if undercoating or rubberized coating would work. With my last Pathy I touched up that rust a few times with black spraypaint, but since I didn't clean off all the rust, it just returned within a few weeks.

The answer is a coating on the hooks on the chains. Tool dip? Some vinyl tubing? or ???

Mine is pretty rusty in that area, but back the trailer in to salt water about 140 times a year. It's just surface rust, so I don't sweat it.

I wonder if anybody makes a galvanized hitch?

If I were going to try to make a rusty hitch look good, I think I'd take it off, sandblast, use a good spray galvanizing, then black Rustoleum.

BTW, I've heard the spray paint from Tractor Supply is REALLY good. Even if you don't need John Deere green or John Deere Yellow. (There's
a local ricer with a John Deere paint job and decals. I'm sure there's story there.)

Chuck

[Densetsu]

Any sanding of the rust, or did you just wipe it down?

My hitch is starting to get rust in the flat area where you attach the safety chains; I wonder if undercoating or rubberized coating would work. With my last Pathy I touched up that rust a few times with black spraypaint, but since I didn't clean off all the rust, it just returned within a few weeks.

The answer is a coating on the hooks on the chains. Tool dip? Some vinyl tubing? or ???

Mine is pretty rusty in that area, but back the trailer in to salt water about 140 times a year. It's just surface rust, so I don't sweat it.

I wonder if anybody makes a galvanized hitch?

If I were going to try to make a rusty hitch look good, I think I'd take it off, sandblast, use a good spray galvanizing, then black Rustoleum.

BTW, I've heard the spray paint from Tractor Supply is REALLY good. Even if you don't need John Deere green or John Deere Yellow. (There's
a local ricer with a John Deere paint job and decals. I'm sure there's story there.)

Chuck

Hmm... that's a good point, I never did make that connection. By the chains and inside the receiver is where my rust is... where there's metal-on-metal contact.