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Sean150 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:17 am

I did this sometime last year but just recently found the pictures.

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:24 am

nice touch. i think it would look better if the fenders and bumper matched the rest of the vehicle though.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:00 pm

Hard to do when you have a Sport Model :wink:

501 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:15 am

tommudd wrote:

Hard to do when you have a Sport Model :wink:

Yep!

Looks great Sean! What paint/color did you use? I have an extra grill laying around and I'm debating on what color to paint it.

Does it match the fender flare color? (hard for these old eyes to see in the pictures!)

Sean150 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:56 am

Its a metallic gray metal spray paint I picked up at walmart. I think there was another color that was either lighter or darker but decided to try this one first. the trick to painting the grill is to wet sand paper it down really well to give a surface. I think I had two primer coats on it, 4 coats of gray and then something like 2 or 3+ layers of clearcoat. I did all of that to make sure that it didn't end up chipping or worn off by rain or anything over the years. the interior has matching paint to it but iv yet to take photos. I'm going for a 2 tone look to the whole thing.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:07 am

couldn't really tell in the pics

but does the grill match your hood decals? kinda looks like it does

Sean150 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:31 am

they sort of match, the decals are a lighter color that they are easier to read. The spell out Forward Recon.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:23 am

I think it looks pretty good, have you thought about doing some screening or something in the grill? I used an aluminum screening and painted it a dark black cherry and screened mine

didn't do it exactly how i wanted, couldn't get the slats to detach from mine and since my grill is already cracked i didn't try to force it but attached it behind the slatting

it's kept me from having to pop the grill and clean out the radiator now every time i drive through the swamp lol

Sean150 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:42 pm

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

I think it looks pretty good, have you thought about doing some screening or something in the grill? I used an aluminum screening and painted it a dark black cherry and screened mine

didn't do it exactly how i wanted, couldn't get the slats to detach from mine and since my grill is already cracked i didn't try to force it but attached it behind the slatting

it's kept me from having to pop the grill and clean out the radiator now every time i drive through the swamp lol

I'v thought about it but Iv never gotten anything on the radiator and if I did I would need the wide openings to hose it out. There just isn't any water around here that deep that is safe to cross.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:27 pm

lol, when i said swamp i meant through the swamp on paved roads

most of the marsh/swamp around here takes one pass through and your vehicle looks like one of those glue/tape bug traps

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