Pedro,they have a real nice chromed differential covers available at
off-road shops or can be ordered from Advance Auto or Pep Boys in their
aftermarket books, BUT if you really want to paint the diff. covers, the
best way is to remove the covers, use some wet/dry #220 (or coarser if
heavly rusted) and sand the whole cover(including all the outside edges and
inside corners and creases). If by looking at the painted cover and it looks
to be in good shape with no rusty areas, then all is needed is #220 paper
again just to rough-up the surface(without cutting all the way through the
painted cover). If you do break through the factory paint, just have some
primer(same type as the paint that you'll be using to recolor) ie: enamel
primer---enamel paint
lacquer primer---lacquer paint
with automotive acrilic enamels being the best--unless you go with
hot-coating the parts(electrical dust powder, then oven baked)
There are on the average 3 colors of primers that you can get--light
grey,black, and a red-rust color. The lighter shades of colors will work the
best with the grey primer, shades of brown or reds with the red primer, and
dark colors like the black, but all dark colors really don't care what color
the primer is, except when you get rock chips on the cover and they you'll
see the primer underneath.
Also make sure that when you are through sanding that you use a "tack
rag"(rag used just before painting that have special waxes in it to remove
oil's from the object to be painted). This will give you better paint
adhesion. Any other questions just ask
Tim R.
----- Original Message -----
From: Pedro J. Diaz <pjdmd1@home.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 9:08 PM
Subject: DML: has anyone painted their diff. cover?
> if so, what paint did you use?
>
> pedro
>
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