Because We're Not North Enough To Be NOVA, We're Just Stuck Between the North and the True South

Thanks! It's an easy drive strait down 29. Just a little boring by yourself. My usual copilot is scrapbooking tomorrow so flying solo.

 

Cool, enjoy the drive.

 

I'd go, but, you know I gotta werk....

Coffee, and loud music. Stay alert brother. Have a good trip

 

I rocked out to Boston and AC/DC coffee sucked Christie got some kinda almond milk creamer

 

Well... The color matched grille project kind of started because I finally found a can of 8P4 Duplicolor.

Annnnnnnnd then if you look at the left side of the grille where that piece of tape is, you'll see my exact point of defeat. I don't have any fine line tape, and even if I did, I doubt I could get it around that bend. This thing was supposed to come seperated, at least that's what I thought. Oh well.

So I gave up and have made the decision to seperate the grille and get some mesh to do a thin lip (cause screw the epoxy and Bondo process), or order a cutout style 3 piece black billet insert, which I believe will have me cutting that thing out anyway.

What do you guys think? I'm leaning towards thin lip, because I love the look.

 

Then do the one you like the most. I'm sure either will look good

 

Coat the area you can't mask with vaseline usiing a q-tip. Then you should be able to wipe it all off after you paint it.

 

just take your time taping i've done mine like 5 times already. tuck in the edges with a razor blade

 

Probably thin lip.

Oil + paint is usually a big no-no. It might work, but I've seen things go reaaaaalllly bad in a hurry if the two try to occupy the same space. Hell, I've seen fish eyes just from tire shine in the air hitting something fresh.

I might try it with a hobby knife. My hands are too big to fit down in there with any precision. Like trying to fit a ham into a cereal bowl.

 

jst overlap the edge a little, tuck what you can in by running around it with your fingernail, and trim the rest with a razor. It's teedious but simpler than seperating to me unless you want to do the other grill

 

I keep telling you egg nog......

 

Yeah. Tedious is a great word for it. Lol.

I still don't understand why they couldn't just use regular clipping tabs. Is what it is though.

 

i ran out and we are apprently dieting again

 

I eventually had to seperate mine to put the raptor lights in it and hide the wires. Some folks say it's easy I thought it was a pain in the ass

 

Yeah... I probably still will eventually. Right now my main goal is get rid of the chrome, because I want to do something with the wheels that's not going to look right with the chrome grille.

So, I took your advice, and the razor blade wasn't terrible. We'll see how good I did when I untape it, but so far:



It's got a little trash in it, but my garage is filthy, and I think most of it could be wetsanded out. That's just the final coat of clear. I think I might have picked up a little bit of this painting thing from my old man. Lol.

Honestly, as much as it's covered up by the ARB bumper, I probably won't even bother. I'm going to buff the truck in the spring anyway, so I'll probably get it then if it bothers me. I can't wait to put it on tomorrow though.

 

looks realy good in the pics. I bet it looks good on the truck

 

Looks good, @Fish12South

Before I read the body of the post, I thought those were pictures of a headlight and was wondering why you had newspaper inside your headlight. LOL.

 

Well it almost matches. I should have used some green etching primer instead of grey. But it's close. And don't mind the hail damage on the hood. That's still being sorted out kind of. A TRD scooped hood is going to be ordered soon.

 

looks good on the tuck It maybe a ittle off but hard to tell honestly the way the light is hitting it. Either way it's better than chrome

 

Yeah. When the accident happened my dad had mentioned it was a darker greener variant and he got it as close as he could. Which was pretty damn close. I knew it wasn't going to be perfect. But I needed that chrome out of my life. I can live with it for the $70 I spent including the new grille. Lol.