Painting the Frame

    This weekend I'm going to be pulling the TC skid plate on the TJ, replacing the nutserts and then reinstalling. I'm going to be doing some grinding to remove the old nutserts, so I'm wondering what the best way to paint those sections of frame would be. Just typical primer and paint?

    Aaron had a bunch of cutting and grinding when he did my clayton kit. I touched up whatever I could spray with black rustoleum in a rattle can. That was late last winter, still looks as good as it did right after painting it.

    Primer then your choice of paint. I'm liking the Rustoleum Satin Black, looks pretty similar to the factory frame paint on my JK.

    Jerry / Whatevah

    2020 Gladiator Mojave - 33" Falken mud tires, LoD side steps, Zroadz bed rack, Quadratec QRC winch bumper, Superwinch EPi 9.0, Kleinn on-board air, Kleinn air horns, lots of lights, Yaesu ham radio with GPS tracker.

    Gone- 2012 JK Rubicon with stuff. Long gone- Long-arm 2001 Cherokee with stuff.

    I use the rustolium industrial paint in the silver can. Seems to apply thicker and its easy to touch up.

    I used POR15, then top coated with Hammerite stuff.

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    Jeeps Owned'79 CJ5:

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    - 258 I6

    - '93 Cherokee fuel injection and HO head,

    - bored 30 over

    - with 4x4 cam

    T18 tranny with granny low / Dana 18 t-case

    Dana 44 front and back from late '70s Wagoneer, both locked and loaded with 4.88 gears

    SOA on modified YJ springs with shackle reversa

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