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Best appearance upgrades

Just paint everything really well.


If you want to get fancy and make it last, haul your whole suspension, bare axle tubes, crossmember, and anything else you want down to the powder coat shop and have them coat everything with a desired color.

About the only thing that then looks good as chromed would be the shocks. A painted undercarriage and chromed shocks looks nice together, but don't get carried away with any more chroming than that.
 
Thunder said:
Mud. Dirt. and Grease
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x eleventy billion.

bling is for girls and those wack lowrider peeps.

j
 
jekbrown said:
x eleventy billion.

bling is for girls and those wack lowrider peeps.

j
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As ever, excellent advise on a subject you know nothing about.:thumb:
 
my personal best appearance upgrade is cleanliness. a clean rig is a happy rig, no leaks or oily surfaces. also i think the best thing i did was flat black my frame rails and xmembers and silvered my tranny with black pan, silver bolts. then semi gloss black on the axles with silver bolts. silver rod ends and will get stainless brake lines soon. i think it looks good.
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i really love the look for fresh white shocks when they are first installed. however, im never able to keep them white after long :) wonder how much it would cost to have the axle powdercoated
 
Whats a good color to paint shackles and other underbody trucks if I have a midnight blue paint job? I was thinking black and a bright blue color for components? Anyone have any colors in mind?
 
Let's thank our up-right living gods for the brilliant invention of KRYLON in black!!!:bow: :bow:
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Only thing better is Hammerrite Black ... It covers bling bling chrome and doesn't flake off showing that nasty stuff. I hate to admit it but i put some chrome valve stem caps on my rims. The little silver spots going round and round in my muddy rims looks cool. I wipe then off and polish religiously
 
obijuan said:
my personal best appearance upgrade is cleanliness. a clean rig is a happy rig, no leaks or oily surfaces.
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I have to completely agree with this. that undercarriage looks great. clean is sweet. stainless is cooler then chrome because its more functional. if you painted everything black and kept it clean you would get more looks and compliments then if you chromed everything. and ran yellow shock boots.
 
runamok151 said:
it doesn't matter what color mine is cause you never see it.:woot:

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Nice.................I am jealous. Is that a spray can job? I have used that spray on mud before but it never came out that good. Is that that new POR1012 stuff?
 
gmc4cw said:
I've been to the pine barrens and thats the mud.
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that was after the englishtown mudbog last july. that stuff was like gunite sprayede under there. 8 hours w/ the pressure washer the next day:eek1:
 
i painted my grill black...then used grade5 bolts on my tow hooks and it ripped em off and therefore rippin el bumper...i kinda like it. lol
 
runamok151 said:
that was after the englishtown mudbog last july. that stuff was like gunite sprayede under there. 8 hours w/ the pressure washer the next day:eek1:
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If you are going to the Englishtown spring swap meet look me up. My friends sell jeep parts over on the lake side. big yellow and white camper with a banner for "The Jeep Shop".
 
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