1968 JK M35A2 Restoration Project!

I went today and tried to use the paint recipes you listed in the thread earlier. Home Depot corporate decided to change their mixxing codes so those recipes are no longer applicable. So again I am up poop creek and my paddle got chucked into a wood chipper.

Looks great guys!

Guys, those codes are not required... just an opaque paint color sample... any Home Depot can color match.

I have nothing to color match to. Unless I want my whole truck painted in blust, grust, and brust. If anyone has some old paint and can send me some samples on paper so I can color match would be great. If not I will just paint the whole truck flat black as I had originally intended. Prolly would be easier anyway.

Amram said:

I have nothing to color match to. Unless I want my whole truck painted in blust, grust, and brust. If anyone has some old paint and can send me some samples on paper so I can color match would be great. If not I will just paint the whole truck flat black as I had originally intended. Prolly would be easier anyway.

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Go rummage through the paint sample cards at a home improvement store or go to a model shop and peruse their samplings of various olives. Heck i color matched to rustoleum deep forest green. Get out and find what YOU like and make it YOURS

Hey Mike, check to see if Scott still has his Rapco 383 Rattle cans. Rattle can something at least 2"x2" and Home Depot can match it. Just make sure to request Exterior Flat Behr.

Perhaps whomever posted the codes that are now obsolete could edit their old post with a link to the current formula to save confusion.

Steve

I do have some rattle cans left.

The company that made Home Depot's paint mixer machine went belly-up and left them with no product support. That is why the codes changed... there is a new machine mixing it.

Went out to look the truck over for a drive tomorrow. The oil looked and smelled normal. Went to check the coolant level....uh oh! The top 1/16th inch layer was some brown stuff. I used a turkey baster (spelling?) to siphon the layer off. I didn't notice any oil smell and there was no oil sheen. Kind of smelled like cleaner or something like that. Wonder if there was a pocket of coolant flush that didn't make it's way out. It was just brown stuff. Kind of reminded me of brown algae on the surface of a pond.
Last year I flushed the system really well. Also added a coolant filter. And added a bottle of radiator leak stop due to an unforseen radiator blunder. Is there an easy way to check to see if this is oil?
The engine oil is normal and I didn't see any bubbling in the coolant while the truck was running.

I think the oil cooler feed only comes in from the top, so it may have been trapped in there. Later I'll look at mine that's off the engine and see.

Not much progress on this truck. I do, however, have 7 Michelin XML's waiting to go on this truck. Just need to secure some inner tubes and either a slide hammer or duckbill hammer for bead breaking.

your paint job came out great!! I have been playing with the idea of doing a "cheap" paint job on my truck and i love the results you had!!

Thanks! After almost two years, the paint hasn't faded from what I can tell. It's holding up awesome! The nice PNW rain hasn't done much with it either. I also noticed the moss doesn't like to take up residency on the Behr paint as much as real CARC...BONUS!

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The paint looks great. It is nice to see people sharing their ideas with one another instead of hoarding them like a family secret.