Hours into a quickie Paint Job
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Hello fellas
I’m looking at shooting a quickie paint job in my new daily driver work truck – ’96 Fullsize Dodge reg cab short bed. It’s black, and I have a bunch of SS urethane in black I can shoot on there.
I’m curious what you guys estimate it takes to do a job like this? I mean this thing is covered with little dings, but I don’t intend to go nuts – fill em all, DA for a block – I’ve been learning from Bondo’s video :compsmash
How many hours do you estimate for a prime, quick block, and reshoot?
Are the door jambs going to bite me since I’ll basically be priming everything outside?
If you are just doing the exterior and not going too nuts removing parts and trim you can have the job done in 2-3 days if you work hard.
If you are literally just looking for a splash and dash, I would remove all the easy stuff (tail lights, rear bumper, mirrors, belt moulding door handles). Prep the truck from one end to the other for paint, mask it, fix the small dents and spot prime those areas, sand the primed areas the next day and go straight to paint without re-masking. Let it dry overnight and on the 3rd day put it together. Definitely NOT the best way to do the work, but if you are careful you could get a decent looking job out of it like that.
I’m not sure what you mean by the door jambs being an issue?
[quote=”Ben” post=23271]If you are just doing the exterior and not going too nuts removing parts and trim you can have the job done in 2-3 days if you work hard.
If you are literally just looking for a splash and dash, I would remove all the easy stuff (tail lights, rear bumper, mirrors, belt moulding door handles). Prep the truck from one end to the other for paint, mask it, fix the small dents and spot prime those areas, sand the primed areas the next day and go straight to paint without re-masking. Let it dry overnight and on the 3rd day put it together. Definitely NOT the best way to do the work, but if you are careful you could get a decent looking job out of it like that.
I’m not sure what you mean by the door jambs being an issue?[/quote]
What I’m getting at is I’ve never been any good at spot priming :lol1 I always end up blasting a whole area, and it gets me in trouble. at the edges of the door I’ve got to prime them, and that’s no biggie, but in the jamb if I get a hard line of primer I guess I’ll just have to carefully feather them down and foam tape it for paint. I’m just looking to save time if I take on this job…
Thanks a lot Ben.
[quote=”bobwires” post=23276][quote=”Ben” post=23271]If you are just doing the exterior and not going too nuts removing parts and trim you can have the job done in 2-3 days if you work hard.
If you are literally just looking for a splash and dash, I would remove all the easy stuff (tail lights, rear bumper, mirrors, belt moulding door handles). Prep the truck from one end to the other for paint, mask it, fix the small dents and spot prime those areas, sand the primed areas the next day and go straight to paint without re-masking. Let it dry overnight and on the 3rd day put it together. Definitely NOT the best way to do the work, but if you are careful you could get a decent looking job out of it like that.
I’m not sure what you mean by the door jambs being an issue?[/quote]
What I’m getting at is I’ve never been any good at spot priming :lol1 I always end up blasting a whole area, and it gets me in trouble. at the edges of the door I’ve got to prime them, and that’s no biggie, but in the jamb if I get a hard line of primer I guess I’ll just have to carefully feather them down and foam tape it for paint. I’m just looking to save time if I take on this job…
Thanks a lot Ben.[/quote]
For the spot priming, just dial the gun down (using lower pressure, fan and fluid dialed in more). For your jambs you can still use the foam tape. If you prime with low pressure you won’t get much in there and the little that may should get covered by the paint just fine, which will be sprayed at full/normal pressure.
Alternately, you can back mask the door edges for your primer…
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