Colorado B/S Thread

[Kiefer316]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Heat gun!!! Luke had woodgrain on his old jeep and thats what he used to take it all off...

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

k, thats two people that have suggested the heatgun idea,

gotta heat it up quite a bit or what? as in should it start browning and peeling back or just enough to make it warm to touch

 

[Kiefer316]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

I think just make the material soft enough to peel/scrape would be good. Sure it wouldn't hurt the sheet metal if ya heated it up a bunch...

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

right, gonne have to do something about paint anyway after i decide how to fill the bajillion holes in the damn thing

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

hey a anyone got tips for removing woodgrain decal off jeep? thanks

Rub vigorously against trees and rocks until gone. Duh! :twak:




But seriously, yeah, a 1600-1800 watt hair dryer or a professional heat gun will get ya going. Just heat up a 3"-4" corner and use a plastic pot scraper to start lifting the edge. Once you get that 3" section pulled up, just heat the area ahead of the lifted section and pull slow and steady - the hotter, the quicker the pull will go. Get a bar stool or something to sit on that rolls - it's gonna be tedious and your back's gonna get tired. :thumbup:

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

cool i think i have a heat gun at work, but your first solution sounds so much better!


is it possible to toss little welds into the holes in the body/doors/fenders to fill the holes, grind smooth and paint over? or will it warp the metal too much./

 

[Frank Z]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Teenytiny, tinyteeny spot welds. lowlowlowlow heat, let the area cool between spot welds.

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Teenytiny, tinyteeny spot welds. lowlowlowlow heat, let the area cool between spot welds.

thats what i figured, dont need any structural integrity from the welds, just figured it would last longer and look better than bondo

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

You'd still have to do some body filler. Any sanding down of the welds to the metal will leave little round indentations to the metal and paint - just enough that you'd see it once painted over.

Just mount little colored LED's in the holes...........

Just be careful...... apparently it's addictive.

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

all stripped down....

and now looking way better!

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

and it has begun!!!!

there is quite a difference in the white that has been covered the past 20 years as to the uncovered paint. i dont even think buffing it out could fix it, toying with some pain ideas. i know right, ME painting a white jeep a different color?! WTF?!

 

[xj-grin]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

I got an idea... you should've left the woody on!!!! Hate to see a good woody go to waste.

 

[time2getdirty]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

I would love wood! I dont know why you dont like it Mike!

 

[Rockken]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Simulated wood grain = uke:

 

[kastein]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

I got an idea... you should've left the woody on!!!! Hate to see a good woody go to waste.

same... though it'd be real awesome if you put real wood veneer on instead.

*cough cough*

 

[Beezle]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Yup I agree, the wood was my favorite part of that XJ

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Do a faux carbon fiber overlay.......... all the cool kids are doing it. :thumbup:

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

do a what?!?!?!

 

[Frank Z]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Here ya go.

 

[in4aride]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

hahahaha fawker.



and no, thats too ricer for me