Red Rover's Paint Job


Last Changed 3/26/2011
*Red Rover* had a couple of spots where the paint was peeling, Mark thought he would ask his friend Ron Knight (Sibernut) to help touch up the spots. Then like most small projects, it began to grow. Since the peeling spots were on the top and front edge of the hood, maybe we could paint the top and front of the hood a different color. Dale has wanted some of *Tige's* gray color on Red Rover so the rig would look more integrated. Then if we were going to paint the hood, why not the side fairings. And so it went.
	The first job was to remove the fairings. We started with the rear step fairings.
	*Red Rover* looks strange without his side fairings. Look at all that space under that truck.
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	This side of the truck is not as empty with the batteries and air tanks filling some of the space.
	The fairings ready to travel to Ron's.
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	We borrowed Ron Knight's truck to transport the fairings. Ron is also known as Canvas Geezer in his canvas business. A great source for custom canvas work.
	The first step was taking the gloss off of the fairings.
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	Sanding, more sanding,
	and more sanding.
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	Since we are repainting, we might as well patch some of the nicks. The project grows.
	With *Red Rover* at Ron's, the sanding of the hood started after removing the grills, fog lights, license plate holders, Volvo name plates, etc.
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	After priming and sanding, Ron shot the fairings with the new color.


	Mark reinstalled the side fairings as they were completed.
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	The hood is primed.
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	The color has been applied to the hood.
	The side fairings are back on with the new color.
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	The hood is painted. Now Mark has to reinstall all the things he took off.
	Mark in front of the new look *Red Rover*.
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	The addition of the gray to the hood and fairings really made a big change in *Red Rover's* looks.
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	We had to repair the rear apron of the bed. We needed to repaint it so we choose to make it gray. Since the area was small, we used spray cans to do the job.
Update
	We found a Dupli-Color that is very close to the dark grey of the trailer in spray cans. We first repainted the rear apron in the darker grey where we had painted it silver before. Then we decided to repaint the rear storage boxes as well. We repainted the boxes inside and out. We used bed liner inside and on the bottom and backside of the box as it is more durable.
	We have the right box done. We are changing to dark grey over black as black looks dirty all the time. We applied several coats of clear finish on the box which will help keep the clean look longer
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	The left side box is finished.
	Looks better than the old black paint.
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