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Post by redraif on Feb 23, 2015 15:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by jkdv8 on Feb 23, 2015 20:48:54 GMT -5
Holy $//!1 man. That looks amazing. Did you have to do that to both sides of the lense. Did you soak the lense in oven cleaner. Paint usually doesn't adhere to painted chrome surfaces but that stuff will eat it off without destroying the plastic.
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Post by colted on Feb 23, 2015 21:25:57 GMT -5
Dang, man!........wish I ahve at least a quarter of your dedication on doing works on your monty.....hope i get to see your nice truck on the GA roads one of these days.....easy to spot on with those tires....
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Post by redraif on Feb 23, 2015 22:40:20 GMT -5
Holy $//!1 man. That looks amazing. Did you have to do that to both sides of the lense. Did you soak the lense in oven cleaner. Paint usually doesn't adhere to painted chrome surfaces but that stuff will eat it off without destroying the plastic. Thank you! No soaking of the lense. Just hand sanding and polishing. I did not paint any chrome surface. I replaced the chrome grille and headlight bezels with black plastic ones. I just had to paint them cause they were fading white in places. Nope only sanded and polished on the outside of the lense. The inside was in great shape. I baked the headlight apart because I wanted to paint the inside bezel black and remove the amber. I left the chrome inside chrome. I though about black chroming it but I was afraid to reduce the light output in any way. Otherwise it could be polished without baking. But the fact that it was open allowed me the chance to truely see thru the lense and be sure I got out all the fine scratches. The key is to remove the damaged layer of plastic with the 800 grit sand paper. You have fine stone chips and UV damage. Hence the yellowing and rough surface. You sand with the 800 till the surface is smooth and the yellowing disappears. You can't remove and deep chips however or you will weaken the plastic lense. The 1000 and then the 2000 reduces the sanding scratches to less and less aka finer and finer scratches. Each level of sanding gets smoother and smoother. Then the rubbing compound is the key step. You get the lense crystal clear with that step. Most could stop there it does such a good job. You rub with the compound till it looks like a piece of glass when you look through it. Its the heat of rubbing that helps as well. I just went on with the glazing steps to help pull the scratches and haze out completely. If I had a buffing wheel I could have been done in a snap.
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Post by redraif on Feb 23, 2015 22:46:53 GMT -5
Dang, man!........wish I ahve at least a quarter of your dedication on doing works on your monty.....hope i get to see your nice truck on the GA roads one of these days.....easy to spot on with those tires.... Thank you. Patience on projects was always a gift of mine. I procrastinate like crazy, but when I get going I stick with it and follow it thru 100%. We definately need to meet up sometime! believe it or not I saw another sport and got excited to park next to it thinking mine would be bigger and I could do a before and after... lol.... well dang it if they were not the same height. Same size tires too. I determined that one was a suspension lift however. But go figure till then I had never seen another lifted one.
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Post by jkdv8 on Feb 23, 2015 23:09:07 GMT -5
Oops. I meant soaking the chrome bezel in oven cleaner, not the lense. Not sure where I was going with that but, you said they were black so..... nevermind.
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Post by redraif on Feb 26, 2015 12:24:30 GMT -5
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Post by youngblood on Mar 13, 2015 8:54:23 GMT -5
This would make a good DIY for the DIY section
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Post by mrgalantguy on Mar 13, 2015 10:04:00 GMT -5
Looks awsome man...great work!!!
I definitely want to black out the housing on my headlights but still debating if I should keep the chrome on the grille and headlights.
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Post by redraif on Mar 13, 2015 10:32:46 GMT -5
This would make a good DIY for the DIY section I plan to this very soon. Just have to get my laptop repaired and I can do it!
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Post by gene on Sept 21, 2019 10:33:25 GMT -5
links not working can you send me details thru email
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