Got the lift pretty much finished on the '89 build (waiting on my leafs) So I started painting Tuesday. Sanded it all down and sprayed it with bedliner. Then sanded that to remove most of the texture and top coated with satin rattlecan....

A few pics....

Started off like this.


Then with just liner.


And with one side topcoated


Should have the leafs in tomorrow so I can finish the lift, get the sliders on, paint the rest of the xj, Wire up all the lights, install recovery points, etc.... Still lots to do


The rack will stay black and the sliders will be black so I'm thinking of painting the wheels black??? What do you guys think??

 

personally id leave the wheels the way they are...but i do like the paint job so props on that

 

yea i agree with them but the paint looks awesome

 

tan and green?
i personally think the outer part of the rim green, inside part tan. it would match perfectly and look pretty bad***

 

For a spray bomb paint job that thing came out awesome!!

Leave the wheels the way they are. Don't cheese it up by painting the wheels. It'll look like a matchbox car if you do that. It's nice with those wheels because they are not original XJ wheels and not soft 8's which you get major points in my book for being a little different. Nice job man!

 

needs chrome mirrors and door handles looks good

 

X2 on Lyons post ....I would leave the wheels alone....looks great

 

Cool, Thanks for all the input guys! The wheels stay as they are for now

 

That's possible. I happen to have a full set of chrome ones. But then I'd have to ditch the black window trim so I'd be chrome too... Hmmm I've got that already as well... IDK, we'll see how it all looks when the rack and everything else is back on first

 

dude that looks awesome. how many cans of rattle did u go through? and what grit paper? im thinkin of doin this but with black and white.

 

Wet sanded with 400 and then cleaned it up real good, sprayed it with bedliner and then after that was dry I sanded it using a 3m fine sanding sponge. That knocked off most of the texture from the liner but still left a nice hammered look and feel to it. Then topcoat. I used 1.5 cans of rustoleum spray bedliner, 2.5 cans of satin almond, and 1 can of Moss green...

When I did my '93 I think I used a total of 5 cans bed liner, 7 cans Green (top color), and 4 cans black (trim color)



It's held up extremely well! It travels a lot of wood trails around the farm and is constantly raked by branches and she still looks great

 

Both jeeps looking good in here! Makes me kinda wish I hadn't just signed a lease for a city apartment; I'm going to have to pay someone else to do it so I don't **** off my neighbors (also because I don't have the space!)

 

Looks pretty awesome man!

 

man that tan and green xj would look great with some of those sahara tan and green seats

 

Dude, looks badass. I'm in the process of fixing up my XJ now. Still have a lot of sanding and priming left to do though (pictures are in my album). I'm trying to get an idea of how much the final coat of paint is going to run me though. Roughly 4 cans per side?