Jeep First Year

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Prime Suspect

After much too much sanding and not enough beer I finally prepped all the jeep's accessories for paint. I also built a new paint booth which has some better properties than the previous one.


Better plastic (3.5mil thick) and a PVC (1.25" dia) frame helped make the paint booth more like a room. Also a set of sawhorses helped to serve as a table to support lots of parts.

I am painting the dash, roll cage, front bumper, nerf bars, shift plate, shift book plate, tow hooks, windshield hinge brackets, roll cage mounts, and fuel rack.

The parts spread.

Bumper was hung from the garage door beam so it could be rotated as it was painted.

That little guy over there is smiling because he has huffed more paint and VOCs than the sum of paint huffer appearances on COPS.

Fuel and tire rack.

Here is me mixing some primer in the booth.

Making batter.

Spraying paint

There is nothing more manly that spraying a nice coat of primer on diamond plate. Maybe if I was grilling a steak or cleaning a fish on it--those would be contenders.

Here is the painted roll cage and bumper.

Here are some small parts.

Here is the beautiful dash.