A Long Island Jeep
08-31-2010, 03:58 PM
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Year: 1997
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that impact wrench idea is freaking genius. not the safest haha. but ill deffenatly have to try that. love the jeep man looking awesome.
10-15-2010, 08:58 PM
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So 2 days ago I began the process of painting my entire XJ semi-flat black. I personally think it looks great.
We set up a giant car port in my driveway and got started.
Pretty much all of wednesday and most of today has been sanding but some painting got done today.
Just wanted to post this up and let everyone see how it looks!
BTW If you set foot out of your house at all (which I know we all do, we offroad.)
Then you know of the horrors the weather has been for the past 2 days.
We set up a giant car port in my driveway and got started.
Pretty much all of wednesday and most of today has been sanding but some painting got done today.
Just wanted to post this up and let everyone see how it looks!
BTW If you set foot out of your house at all (which I know we all do, we offroad.)
Then you know of the horrors the weather has been for the past 2 days.
10-15-2010, 08:58 PM
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I know it looks grey/primer-ish. I have the truck in a white tent, when the lights outside go out the truck turns black in light. The sun shining through the white tent is what made it like that. If you look at the pictures with the flash on its black again.
10-15-2010, 08:58 PM
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^ (First coat)
Eddie and Matt were a huge help on this project too thanks guys!
I had to paint the emblems too unfortunately (I think it looks lazy with them painted too) but I think I'm gonna go over them with gloss black and a small paintbrush. Haven't quite decided what to paint them yet.
All the paint sticks strong and we just gotta wheel it to see about scratching!
10-19-2010, 08:51 PM
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thanks for all the positive comments guys! So here it is finished:
Only down side is that without the clear coat the mud really gets stuck in the paint...='( so I gotta
A) Scrub it
B) Wax it
or scrub it clean and then getting it clear-coated...but then there's no more touch ups in the driveway lol. Luckily it scratches black so you can't see white scratches.
rattle can with a paint-gun attachment btw ; )
Only down side is that without the clear coat the mud really gets stuck in the paint...='( so I gotta
A) Scrub it
B) Wax it
or scrub it clean and then getting it clear-coated...but then there's no more touch ups in the driveway lol. Luckily it scratches black so you can't see white scratches.
rattle can with a paint-gun attachment btw ; )
10-19-2010, 10:34 PM
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nice jeep i like the flat black...im from west islip what trails do u go to...the only ones ive ever went in are pilgrim and some trails in the pine barrens.