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Sir Sam · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:30 pm

Clipped a bambi on my way down to ouray for the 4th of July. Made out alright on the damage, got a $2200 check from insurance.

So I've been running around taking care of other things, and even though I've had my parts for a month now I finally got around to painting them.

I used some low VOC paint I got in california(which is where I painted the fender the first time), this is weird stuff, has a odd smell, but not much of a smell compared to a urethane or acrylic. What I like about this paint(and also what I don't like) is that it doesn't set up very quickly. Which makes it a little longer to spray something, but when you do finish your final coverage coat and have good color on everything, you let it sit, and 20 mins later it glosses over nicely.

Then an hour later its still too tacky to handle. After about 1.5 hours I moved the parts out into the sun to let them cure. I will let the parts cure overnight and then again in the sun tomorrow before installing them thursday morning. With fresh paint when you apply pressure(like when trying to get a fender to go into place) you can leave imprints if it hasn't cured 100%.

wheeee32 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:06 am

Nicely done. The paint came out very well.

Budke · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:19 pm

Did you hear his neck break when you hit him?
lol

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:09 pm

Budke wrote:

Did you hear his neck break when you hit him?
lol

No. All I heard my mom crying and screaming in the passenger seat about "that poor deer."

Budke · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:35 pm

Hah, I was making a louis ck reference.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:20 pm

oh wow look at that, I am over 3000 posts.

ribbon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:02 am

i like your bumper. its artsy

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:48 pm

Got my parts on last night, had to rush between when the Jeep was in the shade, and when the misquitos came out, overall about 2 hours to remove the old parts, get the new fender on, adjusted, and then transfer everything from the old header to the new one.

Looks pretty good, but like an idiot when I was adjusting everything I never closed the hood to check my gaps. I really need to bring the passenger side fender in, and the drivers side fender out, for the gaps to be perfect. Oh well, I sure as hell don't want to pull the header back off to do that(at least not now).

Murphyman · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:01 pm

Looks A LOT better, awesome job.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:06 pm

Murphyman wrote:

Looks A LOT better, awesome job.

Ya it does, its funny because the jeep looked almost the exact same way when I bought it, the body damage was almost the exact same. Though the D30 was bent and the airbags blown, which is why it was totalled that time.

yellocoyote wrote:

Love the color...

Me too! Between being yellow and the fact that its a freedom edition that means its pretty much my favorite XJ ever.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:21 pm

Very nice

JeepAdvantage · **Joined:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:33 pm **Posts:** 32

Wow awesome transformation. Looks like new. Now paint them wiper arms! :wink:

wheeee32 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:45 pm

Looks much better. I wouldn't have even noticed any difference in gaps at first glance.

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