4x4cherokeexj

So i am working on painting my jeep going great so far! kinda a build things but for painting my jeep lol. here are some pictures. Enjoy! ask any questions.
Here is the paint sprayer kit i bought at lowes and it works freakin great! for only 60 bucks!!!


Taping it after doing some sanding-

Doing some more taping---

I removed the interior door panels and taped the door off... what work!

Heres all of my paint supplies, my guy i got my paint from i am good friends with so what i dont use i can take back and he will take it off the full price!!!

My custom color paint name

This is my paint color! Bright freakin yellow!

Here she is before primer!

My grandpa doing work with the paint sprayer

i think this is the first coat of primer or second

chadh92

Nice man! I just finished painting my XJ. There's some pics throughout my build thread

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/co...classic-94956/

I have a feeling yours is gonna turn out better than mine though

4x4cherokeexj

Haha thanks idk are you going through all the work i am ? If i remember right you had some scratches... ? PM me would love to talk about painting jeeps! hell post on here lol

chadh92

Yeah man, I spent over 35 hours of prep time. The scratches are hardly there really (the picture makes them look a LOT worse than they are). My hood was in terrible condition when we started. Half of the hood had paint on it, and the other half was a rough charcoal color, we don't know why.

I think the scratches are only showing because of the light coat of paint we put on. You can see them with a certain glare on the hood, but your fingernail won't catch in them or anything. We only used 2.5 quarts for the whole car which was definitely not enough. That got one medium coat on and that was about it. Don't make the same mistake I did

4x4cherokeexj

Jesus dude.. what kinda paint sprayer did you use??? I used a little over 1/2 gallon of primer and still had left overs for 5 coats!!! I got 1 gallon of paint which is going to be more then enough so I can make my paint really thick and durable same with the clear. I have like 20 hours of prep too lol

chadh92

Same thing. Gravity HVLP spray gun. You're saying you put on 5 coats of primer with a 1/2 gallon (2 quarts)?

The final coat should be one thin coat, then two heavier coats. Once we started spraying, and realized about how much each 1/2-quart would cover, we had to just kind of improvise at the time. On a scale to 5, with 1 being really thin, and 5 being a perfect thick coat, we probably got a 2.5 lol.

I'm headed back up to school in a week and we couldn't leave it in primer for that long of a time. In October or so we're going to spend a weekend doing the paint the proper way. We also used pre-mixed Duplicolor Paint Shop paint, with the hardener, reducer, etc already in it. So i'm sure since you mixed your own, it's better quality as well as better results.

4x4cherokeexj

Haha I didn't mix mine. My paint guy did he's charging us based on how much we use. So we use 1/2 of paint thinner he will charge us for half. I'm using a siphon feed sprayer and its freaking great

OOdynamite

Nice man!! I freaking LOVE yellow XJ's!!!

XJ BoSS

More pics please, and how big of an air compressor you running ? i'd like to do this next year maybe, cause i hate my turqoise.

chadh92

Nice man! Helps to know people in any industry for sure. I agree, I love yellow paint. I was actually really close to painting my XJ bright yellow with black rockers.

4x4cherokeexj

The air compressor is a huge one lol 35 gallon tank about 130PSI not set fully but you only need 35 to 40psi. For my sprayer. Make sure you do a great job on prep work.

chadh92

Yeah, it's true that the only thing that matters in the end is how much time you spend on prep work.

4x4cherokeexj

Well today the yellow goes on! And clear coat tomorrow! Wet sanding like crazy!!!

XJ BoSS

post more pics lol.

1ABrian

looking good so far. I know the final outcome will really come down to your prep work. Cant wait to see that yellow on there. pics pics pics