re-painting hours

[MX922]

About how many hours dio you think youve put into sanding, prepping and painting your trucks?

 

[hndrsonj]

I've got prolly 15-17 in my deuce so far and I haven't gotten past the cab yet.

 

[gimpyrobb]

If I count fixing it from the roll over, days not hours.

 

[scoutmanadam]

I have to admit that when it came to painting my deuce, the power washer did all the sanding and four hours of rattle canning, so about four and a half hours

 

[m16ty]

It really depends on how good of paint job you want and how bad the body is to start with. If you do like Adam you could easily get it done in a day but if you have a bunch of pealing CARC and want a good job it could take a 4-5 days or more.

The last truck I painted took every bit of two days. It was a fair paint job that I'd call "motor pool" quality but would still be very, very crude by body shop standards.

The easiest truck I've painted had never been painted with CARC. I spent about a day and a half on it and the paint job was almost show quality. That CARC can be really hard to deal with if you want a smooth paint job. Even worse is when you have pealing CARC. It's all got to come off if you don't want your new paint to peal.