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Jeep #18: Fender Flare Woes

So for the last week or so I have been at a standstill due to the fenderflares. Apparently, no one on earth knows how to properly paint plastic. I’ve heard a dozen different things from a dozen different sources.

My real snag is in trying to find a flex agent, a chemical you mix in to make your paint (a-duh), flexible. It’s $60 per pint, and I only need about a quarter of that.

It looks like I am going to have to hunker down and buy a pint, or make friends with the paint shop guys and see where else I can get this stuff, or less of it.

After that I have to heat up the flares (leaving them in the sun til mid-day will do the trick) to open up their pores, and then clean them with wax/grease remover and plastic prep. Then I have to coat them with adhesion promoter, which will help the paint bond to the plastic better. After that I rub on a layer of aloe and green tea cream… you get the idea.

After that I can paint them. I figure I’ll put on the flares for the wheel wells first, and then put on all the graphics and the rollbar as soon as the seats get here. I’ll take my time in figuring out how I am going to drill and attach the sidesteps later this month, probably.

The rollbar cover arrived, it’s a beautiful deep brown and is an unbelievable pain in the ass to put on the bars.

More soon, likely.

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