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If I wasn't traveling this past week, I would have taken advantage of the weather to paint mine too. I'll probably just wait til springtime to do mine. ......
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What have you done to your HMMWV today/lately
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Behr ultra premium exterior paint. Air spray gun.
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I'd also like to ask everyone's opinion. I have a few parts off the truck that still need to be painted. I planned on using some rustoleum flat black to clean up the undercarriage, but I thought about spraying the mirrors and headlight trim rings in flat black while I'm at it. Also I'm kinda up in the air about the brush guard. I dunno if I should paint it black or OD.
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Latex looks good, but it's the worst for a repaint or dings and scratches to cover back up, you can't sand latex the way you can CARC, polyurethane or enamel based based finishes....I have used latex on trailers and it looks good.
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My brush guard was OD. I think that most of the early ones (angle iron) were OD.
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Mine is a heavy brush guard, I had some of the angle iron ones you're talking about. Was thinking black would be a good contrast.
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I painted my brush guard black with the truck in NATO 3 color woodland. It was the angle iron brush guard
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Can you please point out what you modified? What civilian wiper did you go with? Thanks.
May I ask you how many gallons needed to paint the body?
Thanks
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Used a gallon to paint it. I've got another gallon as well here. Not sure what direction I'll go on the brush guard. Might also touch up the pioneer kit as well. 2 gallons would be a completely safe bet IMHO. And then you'd have a little left over for other things.
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Sorry gsp45, not sure where to find one. My HMMWV is a 93 1038, which was all original as I've found.
Made a little more progress tonight. Seatbelts, bows, rear latches, rear door hinges, and repaired a broken fastener. (Drilled out broken rivets and used some small sheetmetal screws)
Made a little more progress tonight. Seatbelts, bows, rear latches, rear door hinges, and repaired a broken fastener. (Drilled out broken rivets and used some small sheetmetal screws)
Thats a luverne type.
I have some in So. Cal.
86humv, thanks for that info, but I'm afraid the freight charges would be more than the cost of the grill guard! Only way that would work is if someone had a truck coming thru Indiana and had some room. Commercial truck freight would be cost prohibitive. IMO
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Now that my girl was not parked in the shop by the owners 5-ton for the weekend, she sat out all day.
I went out and fired her up after work. The volt meter was in the high yellow sitting in the cool weather all day when I cranked her up. I held the starter for about 7 seconds and then let her idle for 40 minutes while my friend and I held the usual end of day court session. He had some final paperwork to do so I took a little ride on dry pavement to see if the RF hub noise went away with replaced hub oil. The noise is almost all gone. I'm not worried any more on that. I went and cycled from 1st, 2nd, drive and back down to make sure that the tranny and torque converter were all working right being this was the first time I've done more than moving around the parking lot and shop.
I had no idea of what the cab noise would be at 55mph, I do now. But it quiets down when I cut the heater blower. But at 20F outside when going 55 it gets chilly in a minute or two.
She corners like a sports car in my opinion.
I think she is ready to come home from the hospital.
I went out and fired her up after work. The volt meter was in the high yellow sitting in the cool weather all day when I cranked her up. I held the starter for about 7 seconds and then let her idle for 40 minutes while my friend and I held the usual end of day court session. He had some final paperwork to do so I took a little ride on dry pavement to see if the RF hub noise went away with replaced hub oil. The noise is almost all gone. I'm not worried any more on that. I went and cycled from 1st, 2nd, drive and back down to make sure that the tranny and torque converter were all working right being this was the first time I've done more than moving around the parking lot and shop.
I had no idea of what the cab noise would be at 55mph, I do now. But it quiets down when I cut the heater blower. But at 20F outside when going 55 it gets chilly in a minute or two.
She corners like a sports car in my opinion.
I think she is ready to come home from the hospital.
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I had my 4 man top (cover, bow set, c pillar, 4 doors, cargo bows, cargo covers, exc.) shipped to me on a pallet from NJ to GA via Fastenal for $150.
86humv, What is the weight on a luverne grill guard and have you shipped these before?
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gsp45, I can tell you 86humv is good at shipping large items as he has shipped me an Airlift bumper setup (about the same width as the brush guard, but a lot heavier) and currently I have a pallet of various stuff coming from him. Do you have Fastenal in your area as they seem to be the cheapest.
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My next item on the to-do list is a cargo cover kit. However, are Tan Cargo Covers the unicorn of them all? I cannot seem to find one at all.