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Painting my chassis.
I'm planning to do a rattle can semi-gloss black paint job on my soon to be sandblasted '87 GMC frame and chassis components and was hoping for recommendations on paint and type. Typically I used Rustoleum products, but I've had issues with paint incompatibility between their primer and their paint before. I've looked into Eastwood's Extreme Chassis Black Primer and Chassis black paint. It's expensive but seems to be good stuff.
Thoughts? Recommendations? If it makes any difference, the truck will be a driver, but since I've gone to the trouble of tearing it down this far and rebuilding both front and rear suspensions, I want to do a nice job. Thank you! -Marc. |
Yesterday, 02:23 PM | #2 |
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Re: Painting my chassis.
You spell your name correctly, so it makes me want to contribute my opinion...with the price of rattle cans now, you might as well go Eastwood...I mean they named the company after Clint, so you know it's tough. Add to the fact that it will last much, much longer, Eastwood is the way I'd roll.
Marc aka 'Shifty
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Re: Painting my chassis.
Rustoleum is terrible IMO, seems to never dry, ever. I dig the crap out of the Duplicolor low gloss black, DE1634
give it a spritz
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Re: Painting my chassis.
The key to using Rustoleum is to NOT use the rattle cans but use the stuff in quart/gallons AND reduce it 1:1 with acetone. It will dry to the touch in less than an hour. Spray it with the cheap harbor freight purple gun, and throw the gun away when done.
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Re: Painting my chassis.
If I had a nicely sandblasted frame to work with, I'd be calling up hot-dip galvanizing shops to see if any of them would give me a good price on dunking the frame and its associated brackets. I'm told the price is similar to powdercoating.
I'd skip the oil-quench step, and paint the chassis with any cheap black paint. When the truck is finished, it would get a yearly November coat of Fluid Film or something similar for more rust protection. That would be overkill, but would be the ultimate chassis protection in my mind. I haven't actually done this though.
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Re: Painting my chassis.
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https://www.kbs-coatings.com/frame-coater-kit |
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Re: Painting my chassis.
I sprayed on Eastwood rust encapsulator platinum…even though my frame was bare metal perfect, I wanted a primer and trust Eastwood to the end.
From there I sprayed Eastwood Chassis Black. As said above, cheap paint gun and cleaned it out nicely when done. I don’t know if it will work again or not. |
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Re: Painting my chassis.
I used Eastwood chassis black, and it all pealed off on my Nova sub frame. Took it down had it reblasted and powder coated. not that hard on a sub frame, but a full frame is a different stor. just be careful out there
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Re: Painting my chassis.
My Chevelle I epoxy primed and used PPG single stage with deadner additive. Been 15 years and still looks great . That being said I used VHT roll bar paint on my 72 when I replaced the motor was impressed with it . Can’t comment on longevity since it’s only been 4 months.
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Re: Painting my chassis.
Thank you! Yep Eastwood is the way I'm leaning. Take care! -Marc.
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