Well it is now red and kinda shiny.
I spent all day Friday doing the masking.
Saturday it was so wet with dew that I could not start until 3:00pm. I got the masking finished and took the back wheels off so I could paint in the wheel wells, and did some final prep and getting everything ready to go. But I got all the red on by 7:30pm, was just getting pretty dark out.
Sunday same game, it was so wet with dew that I could not start until 3:00pm. I had to wet sand some bugs out of the red and luckily did not sand thru so it was still ready to clear. I did the wet sanding in the morning while it was wet anyhow.
Finally finished the clear at around 6:00. by the time I got everything cleaned up and put back together it was to dark for pics.
Left side of box where I did all the work this Summer. I also fixed the bullet hole in the rear left door and cleared that at the same time.
Right side of box that I did 2 years ago, there were a few curtains in the clear and I tried to blend clear by not clearing the whole box side. Last time I never took the bumper off to clean up behind it, so I did that this time around and sanded out all the curtains and masking edges from the first try and recleared the whole box side this time.
During the process about a month ago, I had a headlight go bad that could not be fixed so I had to get new headlights for it also. They work and look a lot better than the stock lights. I had to replace the lights twice. The first set looked great but the DRL and turn signals were not visible in daylight, I called the manufacturer and they said the light look great and are the best available at night. This they were correct about. But they said that if I want DRL and turn signals that can be seen in daylight that I should send them back to where I bought them, get a refund and buy something else. So I did, these are the second try. These are the second best at night but also look good and are very visible DRL and turn signals in direct sunlight.
This is a 14 year old truck that lives outside and is driven daily in the Wisconsin version of the rust belt. The rust is coming I understand that. I will not be diving into any more restoration projects on this truck. However I will still continue with the Fluid Film treatments to prolong it as much as possible.