Budget Build! $119 PAINT JOB For My Old Chevy Truck

my older brother bought this year old square body from me and he's on the way to pick it up but he's expecting to pick it up as is and although she's beautiful i'm going to surprise on him and do a little budget makeover quick i found a paint kit on evil bay for 119 and it has everything that a guy would need and i've already picked up some different tires and wheels then i'm going to clean up the interior there's 13 gauges in there for some reason and some other easy stuff that we can do but i've only got about 72 hours to get this done so let's get cracking [Music] well the guy was just figuring maybe we should set some things straight first if you're looking to make one of them concours show quality paint jobs for 119 nope that's this is that's wrong this is more of what i call a scuff and shoot the goal of this is just can a guy make this your rig one color and if it happens to be shiny in a rainstorm that's neat we'll take that too and if you're wondering why why don't we just do a restoration seems like a pretty solid truck it is but like most fellers myself included i don't got the pocket chains just jingling around to do a full restoration and just give it to my brother i mean he's a nice guy and i like him half the time but the other reason is he's just going to trash it to be honest he falls asleep at the wheel a lot likes to pass in the ditch and he hunts so this is just gonna get basically trashed in about two weeks what we're after here is can a guy sneak in behind the five spot bar parker in the back there and all the ranchers up at the front go that's a snazzy looking unit but immediately after he could ball it up in a barbed wire fence and ain't gonna hurt a guy's feelings i'm gonna put most of the money here into the tires and wheels he's up there in north dakota you know and he should be pretty happy with it overall i think we're going to start with the paint because that's where a guy is going to have most of the time unfortunately and then we'll tie a bow on this thing by throwing the wheels tires and fixing on the interior let's take a quick tour i'll show you what i'm working with here and then we gotta you know i'm just i've been wasting time here basically i gotta get started on this for a lot of you fellers that watch the channel a lot this is gonna look really familiar this is in fact the same pickup that i bought out of missouri when i had to pull my buick home when that broke down was eating lunch and found her on facebook said yup i'll take it and then went and picked her up turned out to be a pretty good rig i've been driving on it haven't had any issues in fact the only thing that i've done other than put gas in this is i did put a blower motor in here because the heat just wasn't in the cab there but she's a pretty solid rig and i'm just going to talk about you know if a guy actually wanted to do this truck right what it would need which isn't a lot he needs both front fenders this is from being jumped violently through ditches suspension compresses tire gets up here and snags on it and that's on both sides but luckily you can go to like lmc and you can pick up fenders cheaper than what you'd have into it if you were trying to do you know all the bodywork and stuff like that don't do that guys just buy the fenders be done with it door skins are nice someone's already might maybe been in it it does need rockers on both sides typical cab corner and then they make a nice patch back here but that's really it body wise the roof is nice shape the hood's in good shape someone might have maybe put some sort of emblem up there there's two holes drilled in it but that's an easy fix and the best part of this truck is the bed isn't rotted in fact this thing hasn't even really worked today in its life i've owned i don't know four dozen squares normally they're really dented in back here from just hauling big heavy loads it doesn't have a fifth wheel or goose which i don't know why you do that with a half ton but fellers do it and then in minnesota wisconsin and chevy's this is always rotted material comes up from all the horsepower shooting back stuff you know gets in here and then the fords basically from here to there between the wheel wells there's two beams not beams support angle iron rod stick things anyway this is rotted in there and it's not and then all the trucks rot back here and it's not this is really solid i might even put a bed liner in there i don't know maybe see if we got time there are quite a few things wrong with it little things this is missing we'll just pretend we didn't see that it's got the typical door sag i worked on that this morning already you can see there so i did the right thing and just twirled this around now she shots look at that the interior is not too bad it's been rhino lined or something spray bombed i don't know what this is it's grippy all the dash is done this is a pad thing of course i threw this on right away i don't think the horn works this we can get rid of those gauges down there flop around and only one works we'll get rid of those and we'll put some digital gauges in here and because these are just none of them are working right the seats halfway decent i might take the cover off these are nice especially with the pockets up here but when you're a big fella like my brothers and i and you don't have the tilt what happens is when you drag your carcass in here all this gets bound up and then you're fighting this trying to get it down and right and so we might just get rid of that it's already got boom booms in it and that actually works we got tallage we're just going to leave that there don't want to touch it this knife came with it leaving that in there i'm not sure i think all of this might have been maroon at one point the panels the seat the dash because the visors are maroon and then i do believe that the silver was probably the original color so body wise all i'm going to do is get all this primer off scuff this up do nothing with the rust we're just going to avoid it completely i will pull the lenses out of it i've got the drip rails off here i already pulled those off this is you know it looks pretty cool actually kind of a fall guy kind of thing but i doubt they work in fact they don't work i don't even know where the switch is i don't have time to make all this work and find bulbs so i'm just going to take this whole thing off even though my brother would like that pull this out as well while we paint the truck but this is a really nice tool box actually and we got fuzzy diceage and a really nice glove wow mountain circle up ohms stock market i don't know what that means inside the power barn here is the main reason i bought this and felt confident a guy could get back from missouri is it's got a o'reilly's replacement long block in here so you can kind of see the newer dark black heads block and obviously the intake and the tibia and everything else is from the existing engine it's only got like 25 000 miles on it she's got the lid flip already that's 17 horsepower got a newer rad in it never start newer battery little juice box thing i don't know this all looks pretty good and then it's got the sm 465 four speed with an np208 transfer case so this is a setup here that's pretty dang hard to kill to be honest and it's going to be a good rig for my brother because he is even harder on vehicles than i dare i say all the ac stuff is still in here but they took the pump later and all that out i think i still got it somewhere this is where your eyeballs are gonna go right on this ridge but yeah we're gonna completely ignore all of the body damage and stuff like that i might just some rust converter even though that's going to do nothing i'm also not going to paint the jambs because that takes a lot of time and taping and pulling off the weather stripping and you got to back paint and do all that stuff so i'm literally just gonna and by now you're going hey derek what color are we going well when you want to hide horrible bodywork you gotta go with white so that's what we got it's like antarctica or is it arctic snow winter winter white something like that we're gonna go white and then i might even snap a little pinstripe downer right on this body line my dad used to do it all the time he'd get all these old chevys and it doesn't matter what color they used to be they'd all go white and they'd all get a red stripe mirrors not even going to take the handles off not going to take the lock we'll just tape you can also just rub grease on these and then after you paint you can just wipe the grease off and mingle you're done and then we'll start to sand clean it up and then we'll get the priming and paint in here hopefully tomorrow this thing really went wonky on me the other day i got all this one bolted already so now i just need to slide it on here this is what i would assume is a dog leash since my brother doesn't have a dog i'm going to keep this in here yes yeah geez this thing is heavier than rosie o'donnell for some reason wow look out that'll work there for now you just pull on that until they break already looks 9.12 repeating better throughout the c6 dragging it over there might have to wait till my brother comes over we can lift that in here but i've been sweeping and poking around in this box and i can't find a spot of rot in this thing i'll be dipped it's nice when you can throw something in here and it doesn't just fall to the ground like i'm used to i'm going to toss the mouse sucker 500 in there finish cleaning that out quick mazel not wire i'll just throw it down in between the cab and let it drag and snag on something and it'll come out of there then i'll get back to the lenses and everything else these hubs look new that's nice see how that wheel is different the other wheel over here she got wallered out someone didn't tighten the lugs that's a shame i probably wouldn't even bought wheels just tires this tire tread is really good but this one is worn really bad on the outside and then this one is really out of balance so the front end must have had some bad issues which is fixed now because i've been driving it but these tires they'll be good for someone for off-roading or messing around on the farm but going down the highway it's just hurting the kidneys even though i'm taking the shortcut here and doing this the easiest fastest cheapest way possible i'm going to try to give you a couple tips that i've picked up over the years painting stuff and i've done it everywhere from outside in barns to actually in booths and then single stage lacquer base clear systems all of that this is just going to be a single stage enamel basically so we're not going to get carried away with anything again but basically all i'm going to use to keep costs down for sandpaper is just an 80 and i'll use that to get a lot of this primer spray paint stuff the rougher areas down then i'll move into about 120 and then i'm going to finish it off with the 400 grit and again you auto body guys know that it varies and if you do a lacquer or base systems you're going to be higher up in the grits but that's good enough for now i'll get everything down to a 400 primer then we'll 400 the primer and then we'll put our color on after that tools i use just a basic ba angle grinder is a must-have the worn out flap this fellers hang on to them you get done with your metal work throw them in a drawer or something those work fantastic for rough areas like these little rough spots and things like that you can blow them out really fast with this and then also like up here i got a raised spot where that toolbox used to sit and there's some rubber on it this will eat it up right away where if i run this over it it's going to tear my sandpaper and i just wasted a sheet and that stuff's not cheap and speaking of that on sandpaper i actually do spend a little bit more money i've learned the hard way 37 times i'll go buy the cheapest sandpaper they last two seconds done or they fly off they won't stick and it's just a nightmare so i do spend more money and i pick up like 3m or a good quality sandpaper but you can find these cheap actually if you just search like on evil bay i got these rolls super cheap and you can even get half rolls if you want another tool i use is just a quarter inch die grinder this is great for like around the door locks the handles gas lids the rubber around the glass stuff like that and then you're not getting that da in there and getting everything scratched up and if you care which i don't you'd also want to tape off a lot of that if you're not going to take it off that way if you hit it once with the da you're just going to tear the tape up and not scratch your stainless and you've got to re-tape it again but this will help eliminate some of that just remember with the grinders if you're doing a real paint job they create heat quickly so you got to monitor that you don't want to get this metal hot even with this nice even pressure you don't even need to push just let the sandpaper do the work you don't want to be getting the metal hot because then you're going to get the old waves i started digging in here i'll get you in closer and kind of show you this mess that we got going on and there's a couple do not do's right here already which again don't matter on this truck but i'm just going to show you anyway so if you're doing something real just you know don't do this so i took my 80 grit and i kind of just started working this area i wanted to see what was underneath of this and sure enough this is bare metal you can see primer the original color and then we've got a respray on this so this is actually a second paint job another dead giveaway of that is they just painted all the plastic behind the lens there so there is quite a bit of product on this and there must have been a scratch or a ding in here and everyone gets excited and they just take it right down the metal in this little spot well now i've got a ridge all the way around this this one too so if we were to paint this this is going to stick out like a sore thumb and i ain't kidding so if you've got a dent here's a good example that small the area that you're going to smooth out needs to be about that big so for me to get rid of these i need to take all this down to metal now and smooth all this in and unfortunately i think that's pretty much how all of this is going to be i'm hoping down here i could probably just get into the 120 grit just smooth this out and scuff it up and not have to get too carried away in that but both sides of the box and i think also the fenders that's going to be a nightmare there's even is that bondo why why is that anyway so this is gonna be just not fun i'm gonna start on the box and i like to do just pick a panel whatever door roof and just finish it otherwise the guy just you're going to be bouncing around and you're going to end up doing the same thing 52 times and the same with bodywork if you're doing a patch or a panel as an example let's say you're cutting this out and you're finishing this get it done but if you get frustrated just walk away from it for a day come back and feel on it again and you've probably got it dialed in i'm starting with the box because i'm lazy and i don't want to stand in the bed or on a ladder today so i'm just going to try to knock the box out tonight let's fire up some let's go with blue's music huh yeah so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] progress it's been bad it's a mess so bring your mop but i think we've got this pretty well tore down with the 80 grit and we'll kind of walk around it here and show you what we got going on before we move on bentley's been in here pretty much all day and he's doing a bang-up job sanding in the tailgate all these little i don't know what you call this indentations up here in the box have not decided yet whether i'm going to paint this or rhino line it i guess it depends on how much time i have the great thing about painting boxes and pickups is it's a great area to test your product also dial in your gun because you got a whole lot of landscape here and then you can move actually out to your body panels so we got a pretty well tore down i'm going to move into doing some areas with the 120 now and then 220 grit and then we'll end up with 400. this hood i kind of slowed down because i'm starting to see a bunch of these different colors that we found in the fenders and doors so i'm 98.3 positive that this is just an absolute nightmare underneath here so i'm going to ease up on her and i think what i'm going to do at this point is just bring the air file in and just bring 400 grit straight down and just hope that my primer filler fills in all the little imperfections like this and that 400 grit might get it and the reason i keep saying 400 grit is usually rule of thumb most enamels and base coats want somewhere around 400 to 600 grit you usually don't want to go higher than that because you don't have that scientifical adhesions unfortunately fellers you might have to read some instructions i know i know it's just the way she goes some little tips here again i'm not a body guy but just some things that i've learned doing stuff like this i mean help me understand this it looks like hail damage horizontally i just anyway this is the only bondo in it but as you're moving through your vehicle you should have your marker on you and you're marking all the lows and highs so you only have to do it once because if you go through the whole truck and then you come back around it again to mark all the highs and lows you just you're doing twice the work basically i use x's and o's i don't know other shops use dashes and dots and do dabs and binary code and whatever i don't know just whatever works right high on it and low just something so you know all this here is just an absolute nightmare but again i'm hoping that inline file will just kind of make this bestest of the worster but when this gets shine on it and you get down like this it's just gonna look not i mean i might ease out of the hardener a little bit so it's not so shiny is what i'm saying for some reason this bondo here i mean it was like like this for some reason and completely unnecessary this is about all i needed and i'm not even so sure that this is needed here i haven't put a straight edge on it but i'm not going to spend the time on it that's going to be pretty well good enough the roof is in really good shape not a single dent and same with the hood actually the doors are a mess if i was rebuilding this truck i would probably consider sandblasting this door and maybe even doing a skin but i don't i mean it's been kicked in a couple different times there's a ton of highs and lows there's some rust in it so it might even be worth just snipping it off here maybe i'm doing a lower skin and this other door has the old i got some groceries in my arm so let's throw my hip at the door and close it and that's what this is here so we've got high spot and this is actually the focal point of the high spot and it's going to end right around here so all of this is a low spot which means at some point this was caved in and then probably popped out and then we've got another big dent down here i have a suction cup i'm going to throw on here and see if i could you know try to bring that out a little bit if we can but again i'm not too worried about it because you know there's that on to the 400 grit and then hopefully either late tonight or early tomorrow morning seven o'clock somewhere around there get some light in the shop i'll be putting some primer sealer on this because we got to let that dry up and i might even maybe just guide coat a couple areas not because i'm trying to do a good job but just so you guys can see kind of what that looks like that way when my brother drives it he's not calling me every day cursing me out because the hood goes like this so we're just scuffing this because either and or and who whether we do the rhino lineage or we spray it down we gotta scuff it and clean it wash it and prep it and degrease it and blah blah and he's also got outside of the tailgate this is all him 100 and the remarkable thing on this you square body guys chevy ford dodge know that normally the top of this tailgate is just like like what did they even do to do that and this one's got just small i mean it's not bad you could put a bed cap on it or even pull these out very easily and finish this off this tailgate is in excellent excellent shape well like i had already thought he needed her you know you got to shut her down at some point on these scuff and shoots otherwise some fellers might think you were actually trying i didn't want that that comes to the point where you got a washer down you know because you got a bunch of dust and crud and stuff all over this thing well i don't have running water here in the shop and the hose bib on the neighbor's house is shut down so i thought i'd do the right thing and just ease it down to the spray wash there in town and since it's been unseasonably warm that seemed fine you know and then uh yeah snowstorm basically out of nowhere wasn't forecasted and that's okay water on bare metal is that's fine three hours 28 bucks and quarters and fourteen dollars of shop towels later we're now backwards from where we started this morning but that's okay because i found a free recliner on the side of the road and it's green and seems to rock life's good so we're gonna keep just trying to dry this thing i've got the heater turned on my wife's favorite setting which is about an inch to the right of a hundred there's another hidden setting called lucifer and it's on that and basically my skin is itching and i'm seeing stars and dots right now i've also got the leg burner fired up gonna throw that on the cart and just wheel it around the truck you know until the extension cord gets bound up and that shuts off got to get this metal warmed up to about 60 degrees if i can which is cool to touch somewhere around there that's about the only thing i care about so at least the paint sticks other than that we're gonna let her buck i'm gonna run the air compressor around the weather stripping and stuff like that so i can start taping her off a little bit maybe you know while she's heating up and by the time the sun goes down maybe we could shoot some primer on this thing probably not that'll be tomorrow and i'm behind the schedule great boots are sticking to the floor so figure it's time to get on the taping i wasn't even gonna show this part but i thought maybe i could throw a tip at you and you can catch it if you want or just let her go guy can get that fancy paper stuff and they got machines you just roll it off and tape comes out on it automatically and whatever i just scoop these up when i go to the gas station and whatnot start planning about a week ahead and just snag one out every time you go in you know just don't be that guy that grabs the whole stack there's coupons in there you know got this side done oh christmas idea and it might look like i'm wasting tape here but i'm not here's why you don't want to catch an edge here this stuff is flapping around or you got little canvases or correct season here and your spray gun you're blowing wind guys remember and if that catches a corner there goes all your paper and you got wet paint now what do you do you're starting over so really get her down get all the folds in here you don't want to stop spraying to have to re-tape that's pretty annoying start at the back winder i try to do this in full pieces because again the less that i need to cut up or like measure or figure out the better so i just use full pieces and then i just fold them like origami is that a word i think it is someone google it i'll get up in here and fold this one up so you guys can see what i'm talking about but i can do this whole thing here in three sheets and be done with her but i'm curious how you guys tape what methods you have and whatnot bleep bloop it down there in the box i'm always looking for ways to speed things up and it's funny because this process a guy just doesn't like but my favorite part of painting a car is pulling the tape off there's just something about it i just you know i smile bring her up get her up here right about there put a good crease in it it's gonna stick a little chunk there run it on the bottom and you'll notice i've got two pieces of tape on the bottom already right here so that keeps my border a little bit wide around this and that's going to help us out pull both these pieces back it's kind of like wrapping presents actually no not really it just keeps reminding me that i need the christmas shop and that's only like a day a couple hours away like that run one across here [Music] one there that's it now this piece just do the same thing fold the bottom up and it's done and this isn't going to flap off while we're painting almost finished up here gotta wrap up three more tires and what we're doing with that is just running a slit down a garbage bag like that and just lay him over the unit i got this rig in neutralis because i'm going to be rocking it back and forth like here when i spray the front i'm going to roll it back a little bit spray the front and then i can bring her forward and i am going to spray it on the lift and yes this is going to get some overspray on it but that's just the way she goes it's a handy tool but tools sometimes get dirty savely and uh where i'm painting here i call this a shop but it's clearly not it's actually an old milking barn with the overhead door that's the wrong size and this thing is draftier than the nfl i got it cooking hot in here trying to heat the metal up but we're not gonna control dust and dirt if you're doing this in your garage like a single car or a double car run a leaf blower through there get all the dust out and then the floor you can actually just take like a weed sprayer fill it full of water wet your floor down if you care that much and that'll keep the dust under control we're gonna do none of that here there's just dirt and hay and stuff falling so it don't matter and then your doors here you could take some one by ones and build up a little frame with some hvac filters set it in here and then close your door on it and set some box fans you pull in fresh air and then hopefully your man door is on like the side of your garage or maybe even the back and then you do the same but face your box fans the other way and what you want to do is pull fresh air in and get that old air out mirror mask and all that stuff too but i'm lucky enough here i got fresh air inlet fans and i got a big exhaust fan and then i'm gonna put my cooling fan and that little doorway too to suck most of it out of here and then you want to put plastic over everything that's really important because overspray is real it happens and i've wrapped everything of value in here just draped it in plastic as you can see last step i got is final little prep thing i'm going to take this dupli-color multi-purpose foaming prep cleaner and i already used a little bit of it and look at my rag i mean we just wiped this down from being wet from being outside the snow storm and this still took off stuff so i've got a couple cans of this and it comes out in just a nice little foam kind of like glass cleaner wipe everything down i'll let the metal is warm that'll dry up pretty quick i think you guys ready to go ahead and shoot some color on the truck back here i figured i might as well run you through some basic setup on the old paint gun here and then some basic how to mix some paint stuff if you already know this just do the ffwd on it and mosey on forward a little bit again i'm not a professional but i've painted quite a bit and it gets me by basically this is an eastwood elite p500 p is for primer and then i have a cc500 and the cc is colors and clear coats i like these guns because they're super easy to use they're consistent and they're really durable i mean this thing is it's been around the block basically almost all guns have the same three controls that's fan fluid and air these knobs here and they all do the same thing if you've got a really really entry-level gun you won't have the air control down here fan does just that as you go counter-clockwise it makes your spray pattern wider more shaped like a football and if you drive her in clockwise you're going to end up with a circle coarse painting panels and things like that you want a nice football shape with soft sides all the way around it fluid is just that it controls how much fluid exits the tip and then air is the same thing how much air are you letting through this puppy almost always on any gun air control all the way out fan all the way out bring her out and the same with the fluid bring it all the way out now what i like to do is depress the trigger all the way run this fluid knob through until you feel tension i can't turn it in anymore right now now if i let go that's where my fluid is going to be set right there and that's only a turn in typically and this is a good starting point and then i can make some adjustments there but just remember if you pick up a gun that's not yours bring them all wide open just pin its ears back air coming in is the most important the reason air is all the way out on the handle here is there's no internal regulator a guy can't really tell how much error velocity is in the handle if that makes sense so you have to measure it right here before it goes in every gun's a little bit different but high volume low pressure guns hvlp typically always takes significantly less air than like a siphon feed gun there's nothing wrong with siphon feed guns right now i have it set to 35 psi but read your guns instructions some of them are as low as 22 and then you dial that in and lock it in this is just a filter i've got right here and don't adjust your air at the compressor and also here runner wide open at the compressor because your volume and air pressure is going to vary in the hose and you're not going to get an accurate read here so run it wide open and figure it out here moving on to paint when i first started mixing paint i would just you know some paint we want lots of hardener because we need a shine and then a little bit of reducer and let's mix it up and i don't know what all these numbers meant and some of my paint jobs turned out really nice and other ones you could put a marble on the hood and it would just sit there literally wouldn't roll they make this so easy guys i'm using an omni high build 2k primer and if you don't use a reducer you're literally spraying filler on the truck like it's going to cover a lot of the mix and dings and sand marks and all that stuff in the truck the downside is i do need to come back and knock it down and do some color sanding but that's okay you don't have to use something like that if you've got some decent body work going on this is one of those points you're going to have to read the constructions and this one tells me right away we need a four to one to one ratio and all you have to do on your cup here is simply find the four to one to one ratio here the cup of my gun is 500 or about 17 ounces so your paint product put it to five put your hardener to the next five put your reducer to the next five and you've got a four to one to one ratio right there just make sure you pay attention to your capacity on your cup and the other thing that you got to pay attention to is don't mix too much product because you've got pot life and you've got flash time flash is how much time do i have between each coat where i'm supposed to be back on it and pot life is if i mix a bunch of paint like i've done here how long can this sit before it's spoiled or bad and you got to really pay attention to that especially if you're using like real paint metallics and pearls and base clear systems none of that matters on this paint job thankfully i slammed together some primer we're going to throw her into that thing and we're just going to make it happen i like to start on the roof and then i'm going to spray in the inside of the bed because basically i can get a ton of practice dial in the gun then i'll come out to the hood fenders doors box on and so forth the last thing a guy might want to do is maybe run a tack cloth down it hit it with some air one more time we're not you know but bodywork is 95 of the paint job so now's your last chance before you start putting money on the thing i'm ready let's just let's get some stuff done [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] we've been done for about 20 minutes now but i've been cleaning the gun and remind her to drain your air compressor every night fellers gets all that water and stuff out of there and then up add a little bit left i guess but it looks pretty good i mean other than the dents and not doing bodywork like that guy there but that high build primer sure gives the guy a break you could pretty much just lay it on anything and we're going to come back tomorrow it's been a really really long day but pretty much we're just going to hit it with 400 quick just a little bit here and there probably just the air file on the box sides and then clean it again and then we're right on the color and that should go pretty fast as well so we might get this done in time hopefully good morning nope it's afternoon i actually slept in until like seven until the back started hurting you know lots of other stuff to do but i gave the truck plenty time to dry and today we are on the block sanding uh bentley's i got him doing the bottom half so a guy doesn't have to lean over and i've started on the hood here kind of show you what this does but this high build primer as you can see the dark gray spots those are the lows so when you take this nice long block over it what that's doing is helping smooth all this out so if you're doing a real paint job with like a clear coat it doesn't have that ripply water effect that's going to be nice and smooth this over here if you don't block it probably hear that i mean she's rougher than the dixie chicks career whatever happened there at the end that was that was kind of weird but anyway we're going to block this whole thing out and then we're going to move on to color pretty quick i'm not going to sand anything in here i'm just going to let her buck you missed a couple spots here bud you coming back around yeah okay good deal sanding this thing out today isn't going to take that long because we're not you know doing a good job we're just getting a little bit the thing that's going to take the most time today on anything is it snowed a bunch last night so there's slush rain snow ice mud dirt gravel mix everywhere which means i'm not gonna be able to ease this down to the car wash so after we get done sanding this we're gonna have to figure out how to basically hand wash it in the shop here with limited supplies i've got maybe 30 gallons of water i've got some paint prep from dupli-color a couple boxes of rags and we're just gonna get her clean as possible and let the color fly what else is there to do nothing okay i think we got her all blowed down luckily that heavy primer kind of just fell around the perimeter here i got bentley on the broom over there i look like tony montana at a party okay so we'll get this cleaned up let the air settle down a little bit i got the fans running already and i got the heat up there set the lucifer again i gotta shut that one off when i turn the fans on when we paint and then i run these leg burners over here that keeps the heat up in here but it doesn't have dirt blowing back on the truck once we get the truck back on the ground then we'll clean it up again i don't know how much of that duper color stuff i have left but we'll just basically hand towel it down until it stops smearing i guess and hope that's good enough and i'm gonna have to address this leaking around i got three spots here now and i think it actually is just a cover normally what happens is the sealer well that's leaking a little bit too i guess might not hurt to put a seal on it and then get some rid of on the back oh that's also not normal-ish but it's still held in that's fine you done yet no dang it before we hand washer walk you around show you what we got after blocking it hood is pretty decent other than all of the cracking and the existing primer that i didn't want to get into okay we'll just let that eat but there's really only one spot we've got a low spot right here probably a knee or something someone changing windshield wipers who knows the door we've got two big low spots but easily fixable this door a little low here not too bad that box side is really good shape actually over here there's a couple small areas and this would be your last chance to get in here and fix these anywhere on the body before you get into color and using that long block makes some of the stick out that maybe your hand can't pick up like this one here would be pretty tough there's a small high spot here and then the ridge shows high but we know the ridge isn't high so this is actually low right here and then this is where that bondo was and you can see all these white dots that's that filler i'm just going to blow it out with air but there's some pinhole filler or some glaze and most of it's acceptable to put over almost all primers you just get in here and get that on that let it dry get it down with probably four or 500 grit you just got to be careful not to get through your high build get back into your bondo because then you're starting over again this doesn't make any sense whatsoever but if you're wondering why did we block it that's because when i put the color on this thing whatever it is that's what it's going to be i'm not cutting it i'm not buffing it i'm not wet sanding it i'm not waxing it it's kind of like a forest gump paint job just never know what you're going to get well here is the color system we're going to use i found this on evil bay for 119 shipped and what caught my eye was just fleet white other than sorting by lowest price plus shipping this was the winner auto ban i think it's german for used cars maybe it's a race track and already we've got some sketchiness that's an eight to one to two which is pretty common that's color uh one part activator which is this guy here and then two parts reducer which is this guy here this says three to four coats but the instructions say two to three coats so we're gonna go with one point seven five to two and a quarter i think that should make it happen ten to fifteen minute flash so we'll want to get our coat second coat on apparently somewhere in that range i think this says 15 to 20 minutes sounds like they're basically winging it which i like a lot no idea what this is going to turn out like have never used it oh flammability is up there i don't know what two health means maybe it's good for you personal protections in white we're going to mix this up in a bigger jug this guy here because i know that i'm going to use this whole gallon or at least i'm going to attempt to if we have any extra just spray it into the bed or get a really thick around the wheel wells i'm going to start with a roof up here but i'm going to use the front of the box for test patterns and the paper on the back window so i'll dial my fan and i think i got it where i want it but this will kind of be you know the test fire range and then i'll get the back of the cab nice jump back out get the ladder do this here i'll use the gun just air only blow the hood off get this done and then just get rocking i think it's uh i don't know what that says over there 5 30 or 6 30 one of the two hopefully i can have this painted in about 45 minutes and then we just shut the lights off go home and let this thing dry here's what we got after eight one two nine or 12 mix and that is not white that's more like a milk after cinnamon toast crunch color it's definitely an off weirdish white which is not what i wanted i wanted white like that paper but that's okay what's all these noises youtube comments keep stirring how's the arm feeling well keep on going [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey good night sounds weird when you start that way but technically it's right 56 and a half hours later paint says let her sit 48 before you touch on it you know and i want to run a pin stripe down it so i came over late this afternoon took all the tape and paper off popped the mirrors on the lenses scooted her down to town snipped some water on it blew all the over spray off wanted to clean the glass up you know forgot that it was negative nine degrees outside got back with 314 icicles hanging off spent 55 dollars of propane heating her back up so i think i think we're back to where i was this afternoon give or take and now that it's cleaned up it looks bad you know it's well i got more runs than emmitt smith pretty sure but you know for a little scratch and spray that's kind of what we were going for hunting rag east town whatever get a scratch oh well you know but anyway it's now all white and she's got a little shine on her nothing nothing to scare a guy anyway but it's there and the tail lenses i believe his name is john sandry it's amazing how much these can clean up a truck just by changing those out so thanks for sending those over pop them in he also sent the door hinge repair kit and i think one [Music] um front blinker lens thing oh yeah she turned out you know not so badish i'm gonna run a pinstripe down it and then i got some words i'll just show you real quick i'm gonna put on the side and run the stripe into that as well it's a business my dad used to have this here and then i'm going to use this multi stripe there's two of them you know they could have called a double stripe anywho so this is what i'm thinking is i'm going to put this like this something like that and then i'll just run that stripe right down this well probably on the bottom side of that ridge all the way up through here and then i'll enter you know up there somewhere but i think i'm gonna start in the back and uh just get these popped on quick there's a really specific way to put on pinstriping if you're gonna do it right and basically that's you peel it back and then you put it on after that i'm gonna get just about three to four inches down and then we're going for it whoops gotta move the truck board [Applause] there we go now these doublers they got a clear plastic protecting coat thingy over top of them so you got to remember to pull that off too pin stripes engaged positive stripedge i use the scissors here see that curved kind of tip on it on the edge of the panels here i could spoon this around both directions there they always want to stick up there on the end of the panels and then on the ends here you can pull back the single and just run it down into the bottom one so it kind of has a swoop in it but i like it that way i think that's how gm actually did it this turned out exactly how i wanted it to it's kind of funny because my dad this is kind of my dad's paint scheme didn't matter if it ran or not he'd back it into the shop shoot it this fleet light run this red pinstripe down growing up basically everything we owned was white with a stripe on it so i think my brother is going to get a kick out of this so i'm going to do the other side quick got to clean up the interior a little bit and then we'll throw those tires and wheels on and then i gotta get back to town my brother gets to the train station at like 6 30 a.m or something i don't like that yep yep yep yep so i think what i'm going to do in here is actually take this seat cover off because this is not so badish there's maybe 11 217 miles left before this just blows open unfortunately the gauges i ordered i picked up some intellitronics white digital gauges but the us and the ps is backed up like 300 percent i mean it's you guys know this it's not good get all this junk out of here i think that's about it i got an emblem to put on the dash and we're going to call this just good enough forgot to even look at the other side before i took it off but she looks brand new [Music] okay i snipped off whatever logo was in here i can't remember cheyenne or something since she's a custom rig now you gotta spiff this up a little bit there we go i did snag the red zone meter down over here a little bit guy couldn't see the fuel gauge very good it's not like i'm ripping her light to light anyway cleaned up the dash pad i did get in here and clean up the gauges and looks actually pretty sharp guy threw some carpet in here really be a go on the town rig i don't know about you fellers but this is the part i've been waiting for this whole time tires and wheels guy did splurge on the rubber side of course i went as cheap as possible on the wheels but i think i'm going to do the truck justice these are 31 10 515 bfg all terrain and tennessee or alabama or whatever ta means and then the wheels 15 by 10 of course you got to go with the white spoke and i think these are going to look real snazzy some of you have probably already caught on to the fact that these are 33s and i'm putting 31s back on and a little bit narrower too these are 12s i believe twelve fives and the reason for that is the drivability is going to be a lot better that 305 it's going to pep it up speedometer will be more accurate we could change the gear and the t case but it's just all around going to be better for the truck plus this is scheduled to jump a culvert in about two days and that way the tire stops hitting the fenders and what not we don't got to get the saws all out and i'm gonna put these on my blue 81 gmc instead of the steel wheels yep like that get my front end rebuild spray it's brand new yep way better [Applause] nice thing about this front end rebuild spray because if you just turn the can around it's now break rebuild spray that's neat way earlier in the process when i was taping off the windows and stuff some of you are probably wondering why i wasn't taping off the wheel wells obviously we got a lot of overspray in there and quick little jobs like this on budget stuff i just come back with this dupli-color undercoat it covers everything and it's super fast [Music] it'll end up looking nicer anyway in the end yeah it looks pretty good in there another reason i wouldn't wash i just try to get all the mud and stuff off here so i could probably do the same with the hitch while i got her up here in my teeth what's going on here i don't even know i'm just going to pretend i didn't even see that but clean that up a little bit too and just you ignore this never thought i'd see a class 5 million tow hitch but here it is there's a chunk of angle iron that's used to build skyscrapers just bent in here with some other stuff and there must be about 15 pounds of rod we got some sort of hook thing going on here a couple few bolts this thing would pull a titanic we can argue about it if you want but i really think that was the right wheel choice i wish the white was a little bit closer but they're far enough apart i think not a lot of people will see and those are pretty inexpensive wheels i'm not a big big fan of these tennessee alabamas been stuck on wet grass about 59 times but i've heard they're really good on gravel and sand and that's pretty much what my brother drives in constantly so and it doesn't look goofy now the wheel just kind of fits the wheel well so i think the 31s was a pretty good choice too plus i want those other tires for my other truck but there we go she's done ready to hit the road i didn't have a ton i couldn't do a couple coats in the bed i mean that's pretty light but maybe he'll do a bed liner in here i'm just amazed there's no rust i'm going to try to talk him into saving on that if you can i got to put the drip rails on still i'll do that a little bit later but it turned out halfway decent well a guy spent 119 bucks on a paint kit a couple honest days of work got a pretty snazzy looking rig back here probably gonna take the young lady to supper later to be honest now keep in mind guys i had everything else here already so if you don't have sand paper primer stir sticks filters things like that make sure you budget for that as well if you're going to do one of these scratch and shoot jobs but hopefully this proves you don't have to spend thousands of dollars on your project like all of the other shows out there tell you you have to who cares what other people think the important thing is you got it on the road and you're enjoying it so get out there turn some wrenches and have fun if you enjoyed this video hit that there subscribe button for me appreciate it very much we'll see you next time guys usa flavor [Music] you

Channel: Vice Grip Garage

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Keywords: motortrend, roadkill, vice grip garage, vise grip garage, vgg, how to paint, how to, paint, auto body, autobody, how to set up, setting up, spray gun, mixing paint, spray enamel, body work, chevy, chevrolet, ford, dodge, old truck, make over, budget, build, k1500, half ton, silverado, makeover, mix paint, repair

Id: vrTUs9ddS_A

Length: 62min 58sec (3778 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2020