mblaney
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This has been a busy and expensive year for my truck. My goal was to have serious maintenance items complete before winter, including the D60, brake installs and, finally, PAINT!
My truck has never gone a year without rustproofing. Since new it has receive an annual spraying of hydraulic fluid. After twenty years the original paint is tired and needs to be redone. The good news is that there is no rust. I have a few dings - "kids, don't ride your bikes around the truck" - five minutes later BANG.
- but the biggest mark on the body could be filled with a teaspoon of filler.
Prep work. I spent two days cleaning and removing hardware. Most of this time was washing, rewashing, and washing again. I removed the front bumper - this was easy because I have a hitch on it and I could line it up with the hitch on my tractor.
This setup also worked really well to let me grind it down and refinish it. Grind, primer, rocker guard and then a topcoat of 'farm' implement paint. The bumper and bush bar have a textured finish. While the winch was off I rebuilt that also.
Here are some pictures of the truck before paint. I pressure washed the **** out of it to remove anything that was able to come loose.
here is the worst ding (kids bike)
Inside door - NO RUST
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My truck has never gone a year without rustproofing. Since new it has receive an annual spraying of hydraulic fluid. After twenty years the original paint is tired and needs to be redone. The good news is that there is no rust. I have a few dings - "kids, don't ride your bikes around the truck" - five minutes later BANG.
- but the biggest mark on the body could be filled with a teaspoon of filler.Prep work. I spent two days cleaning and removing hardware. Most of this time was washing, rewashing, and washing again. I removed the front bumper - this was easy because I have a hitch on it and I could line it up with the hitch on my tractor.
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This setup also worked really well to let me grind it down and refinish it. Grind, primer, rocker guard and then a topcoat of 'farm' implement paint. The bumper and bush bar have a textured finish. While the winch was off I rebuilt that also.
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Here are some pictures of the truck before paint. I pressure washed the **** out of it to remove anything that was able to come loose.
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here is the worst ding (kids bike)
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Inside door - NO RUST
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There is a fairly high level of metallic in this paint.
nice olive drab or desert sand but I suppose in those pics flat white would be more appropriate 
