I never thought u could paint a car with a roller and it not look like complete ass. Did you wet sand it and try to make it nice and smooth? It came out pretty good but would like to see it in the sun 😊 nice work
In a time where most people would buy or finance a new car and then sleepwalk into debt, It's nice to see someone else using ingenuity and simply fixing the problem, Good work!
Life is a lot more manageable when you appreciate you have instead of always trying to get something you don't. If what you got is fixable, not dangerous and serves your needs.... save the headache of debt and fix it. Great comment. Thank you.
@@thejoyoffixingI needed this comment. I have a 2008 Dodge RAM that's served me well since new, I've debated trading for a shiny new one but I'm thinking I'll be fine with a new chrome bumper a new driver seat and new headlights. 95% of paint is fine. It's a pickup after all. Lol. Would like a follow-up video if you haven't posted, how's the paint holding up after a year?
As a painter at a body shop,I give y'all a ten! That's called getting your monies worth! Living in a small town I seen some farmers do this to like big farm trucks and they looked fairly good but you guys nailed it. Macco ain't got nothing on you!
@@SUBtoMYChannelEvery1 Totally Agree, for dollar cost, wetsand, hit it with a 2K clear (which is cheap too) and it will look like a million bucks. Easy. As an upgrade to this process with the roller is to use a spray gun, which can be had for cheap from HF, gravity fed HVLP, and you can take it all the way to the next level. Without really much cost increase. But for dirt cheap roller job, it's not bad and can be made next level for a tiny bit more.. though I don't know of any 2K that can be rolled on... Oh.. wait. They have rattle can 2K now BOOM, no gun needed, grab those 2k rattle cans after a wetsand and that will look like a true auto-spray job.
People would rather spend their money than spend their time. Unfortunately painting a car is crazy expensive so most people get rid of the car. Sad. A little effort goes a very long way.
@@thejoyoffixingpeople don’t have time or know how these days and if you want a specific paint job this doesn’t really work. this is a cheap paint job no matter how you wanna look at it. it doesn’t mean its bad though
@@Videoswithsoarin Yeah but most people did cheap paint jobs, these new "specific" paint jobs were. Even back in the day when someone had a mirror perfct paint job, it was done labour intensive and cheap. Think of it as spending the whole weekend buffing the car to a mirror finish, vs it coming out with the paint done to a mirror shine... Also as for not knowing how, he showed you how to do it. If you decide "No I want a mirror finish with expensive paints, and not one thing wrong", then either spend an extra 20 hours and use spray cans and polish it over and over, or do like he did and have a good paint job on an old car and maybe remove some of the embarassment of the failing paint job, and get another 5-10 years out of a perfectly good honest car.
IN 1958 I watched my dad paint his 1940 Ford with a brush and tractor paint. That paint leveled so well you could not see brush strokes when it was done.
Wow that’s awesome thank you for sharing. I’m getting ready to do this in my car. it’s not worth selling to buy something else and get into debt, so I’ll fix it up for cheap and put another 250k miles on it.
I have an 03 Silverado crew cab. It has the cancer. I’ve been painting it with rustoleum for 12 years. I give it fresh coat every couple years. The paint is literally holding the truck together now.
I remember first seeing this method several years ago in Hot Rod magazine. They rolled on white rustoleum, let dry, and then sanded each coat. It took a few days but it came out good and cost about $100.
I have a 21 yr old F150 and my roof looked like yours, I tried spray can paint and realized I’ll need about 20 cans. So I bought a quart of rust oleum hi gloss white exterior oil base paint and brushed it on nice and thick, you would not believe how well it looks. It’s not picture perfect but it made me happy. And because it’s the roof only a helicopter can see the blemishes….lol. So thumbs up to you guys for making this video.
I brush-painted my first car back in 1969. I used oil based gloss porch and deck enamel custom mixed at Ace Hardware. The color I used was called Peacock Blue! It was an improvement for a $100 car!
Pro tip: I have been doing these paint jobs for years and Rustoleum is enamel paint but only comes in a few basic colors off the shelf. However there is an alternative called XO Rust at True Value hardware and you can get any color from their color charts you want mixed there. XO enamel paint is the same enamel paint as Rustoleum. I did an army green Subaru Outback and it looks awesome. The paint lasts for years with no chipping or peeling. XO Rust is a game changer because you are not stuck with the basic colors Rustoleum offers.
I like the fact that , you painted a minivan with tractor paint . You debunked those elitist bozos , who think we are somehow demasculated for having a minivan . Rock on bro !
I had a old Chevy C-10 PUT that had started to rust. After washing the thing and wiping it down with paint thinner I took a 4" brush and a can of Rustoleum Forrest Green paint and covered the places I could get at. The result was much nicer than several colors of primer. It lasted another decade or so. No need to spend a couple of thousand for a spray paint job when a good brush will do.
My brother & i painted my aunts 1988 Pontiac Grand Am with the horrid original paint..we prepared the body with paint stripper & fully sanded the body..we rented a Airless Paint Sprayer & used Rustoleum Self Primer Paint..We picked "Gold Leaf"Metallic Paint..after taping & masking everything we wet down the dirt the night before in the backyard next morning we shot the paint & it really looks great for a amateur paint job..No drips or runs my aunt was very happy with the looks..
Gold leaf metallic on the 88 pontiac. Bro.... that is ready for a maroon crushed velvet interior, some legit 80 spoke dayton's and possibly some curb feelers just for bragging rights. VERY old school.
I found myself feeling the same way as I did this project but by the time the first coat was on it all started really being worth the effort! Thanks for the comment!
I used the red oxide paint with a roller on my old truck and it came out great. It’s easy to touch up and lasts a long time. The local shops wanted $10,000 to $15,000 for a paint job. They’re out of their minds!
That's not true, you can get a closed door respray for $1500-3k depending on the products used and condition of panels. 15k paint jobs have a lot of body work involved, body shops/panel beaters/spray painters are one of the worst paid trades. Just because you can't see the work involved doesn't mean they are out of their mind.
Back in the late 1980‘s a co-worker who like to hunt in pretty rough areas in Washington State, Idaho and Oregon painted his truck with Rhino Liner (truck bed liner). Looked a little weird at first but it saved his truck from all the scrapes and scratches and small bumps from driving through thick sagebrush, overgrown fields and wooded areas. A homeowner on Santa Rosa Island in the panhandle of Florida painted his entire house with Rhino Liner colored the same color as the sugar sand found on the beach there. His was a concrete dome home, 3 stories tall. Looked great and survived a head-on hit from a hurricane. Cheers
Interesting. Wonder what happens if you spray it every 3 years. Probably horrible chemicals polluting our water supply but maybe not! I’m pretty worried about the future with hydrophobic chemicals all over. But who knows… maybe it’s what our intestines crave!
Ford would pour black lacquer over the Model Ts with a hose and let it run and drip off. I believe most auto manufactures used Dulux enamel back in the fifties, sprayed on, but no hardner-just straight enamel and air dry. Great video-so nice to see someone turn back the clock decades to common sense and simplicity.
I appreciate that. It’s amazing how far we’ve strayed from proven methods for the sake of cutting costs and increasing profits. They don’t make stuff like they used to.
I painted aJeep this summer with regular Rustoleum. I like to thin around forty percent and then add some hardner. The amount of thinning depends on your temperature. I also wet sand with 1000 grit between coats. After it dries for a week wet sand with 1000 grit then 1500 grit. Finish with meguiar's ultimate compound. You will end up with a nice shiny ride. Prep work will determine the quality of your paint job.
Good work, and a huge improvement on that van. I've been doing something similar on my old Land Cruiser using their Professional paints and mixing Safety Yellow with Flat Black in 8 to 3.5 ratio for a real nice shade of OD green. You hit the nail on the head with the roller size and going section by section. One thing I did differently though was to dilute 50% with mineral spirits (so a 1:1 ratio of mineral spirits to paint). This thinned it out much more and allowed much better self levelling with the paint, along with being better able to work over areas that flash while you're doing a larger panel. The only caveat to such a drastic dilution is the extra time needed to continually apply thin coats as you build up, but it's very much worth it to me.
I agree, and have said it in a lot of my response comments... If you wanna really get a smooooth finish..... more mineral spirits (thinner) and many many more coats. The more time and the more thin coats you apply, the better then end result will be visually. This project didn't matter that much to me with visual perfection. 20 year old van.... gotta stop the rust and get all the panels matching. It was a no brainer. BUT.... I have a friend who just rebuilt a very nice subaru that has some paint issues. she's absolutely beautiful mechanically and with the interior so..... trying to talk him into the ol roller and brush!
Looks to me like you could probably wet sand with some fine paper once it's fully cured and make it look even better. This was definitely a major improvement to the van!
Wet sand, tack wipe and spray several cans of two part clear coat (Eastwood and SprayMax make 2K clear coat in spray cans) and it'd look great! 2K clear coat the restored plastic headlights to keep them from yellowing and clouding in a year or two as well.
I did have a father, but we didn’t really do a lot of projects like this together. We did other things. But I didn’t really have anybody in my life who knew how to do anything on vehicles or a lot of other handy things. My dad definitely had a skill set, but There’s just things he was never exposed to or never had an opportunity to work on either. I know that there’s young kids out there now or even kids entering their 20s that maybe just grew up not getting exposed to how to do things with their hands. I had to mostly learn the hard way or through my own research and I just want to share any little tips. I learn along the way. It’s a great privilege to be older and gain knowledge and share it with younger people if they’re willing to listen. You can save them decades of frustration. Trying to repeat your mistakes. Giving them cheat codes to success. Plus, they also get to see the wrong way to do it sometimes, ha ha. Thanks for commenting. Hope you subscribe and stick around.
I did not have a dad but thank God I had a grandpa, uncles and other upright men around me to teach, instill knowledge and mentor or I'd be helpless. But I'm not ashamed to be "TH-cam certified" on things I don't know. Thank you for the video
Great vid! I painted my old truck with Rustoleum. I used a Titan 440 airless sprayer, in my backyard. I masked a lot. It still came out killer. You have some excellent painting tips in this. With your prep and the thickness off the paint through rolling, it will outlast the vehicle. And, I believe that it is possible to work that paint into a consistent shine with a high speed buffer, lambs wool pad and polish!
I just painted my car with a brush and roller, parked on the street. (It looks great!) Peolle walking by would ask what I was doing? "Pianting my car." Most replied with "you can't paint a car like that." Sure can.
The “you can’t do that that way” people have always been the most stubborn and rigid minded people I’ve known. They even get mad you’re not doing things the way they would. It’s wild
It is hard for many people when things are done "wrong". Cars are kind of holy cows of these days. Even 4wd "offroad" cars need to be spotless and scratch and bump free. When I worked in Africa those cars went to bushes, they had scratches and bumps. When paint surface broke they slapped in some greenish roof paint with a brush and it was good to go again. Those cars were TOOLS, NOT JEWELRY.
@@bannedtwice7767 Trust me, the first few I did looked terrible. A 1970 Ford Maverick was my first; exterior high gloss chocolate brown. Cop pulled me over, because I was driving it the day after painting, and it hadn't dried completely. So it was covered in leafs and pine needles. The cop leaned on the car, and he got brown paint on his hand. He laughed so hard, "Kid, what have you done to this car?" Live, and learn.
I used Van Sickle Tractor paint with their hardener to make it last a long time and not go chalky. I used Case Flambeau Red - which is really a deep orange and after three years it still has a nice shine. The best part is that you can touch up any minor scratches easily and the match is still good. Adding a clear coat would be the next thing to do, and you can wet sand the color coat to make it super smooth using it as a primer/filler so that the clear coat has no roller marks before you put it on. I suggest a spray application of the clear coat - a roller will only put new roller marks into the surface again. .
Van Sickle makes some fantastic products. When I worked at Sherwin Williams, we had several people use SherKem implement paint due to film hardness and gloss retention. If you prep and take your time, you can absolutely make it work. And while rolling it is okay, I would probably recommend a cup gun spray setup instead, to minimize orange peel or uneven application. Good results regardless.
WOW! That looks great. When I was a kid (about 60 years ago) one of neighbors was a house painter. He painted hid old van with whatever oil based paint was left over from a job. It changed colors weekly. Once a year he sanded much of it off and started over. This looks way better than that. Thinking of my 20 year old truck right now.
My grandfather used to tell us the story about his old neighbor lady that would spend a week touching up her home every spring and then finish by touching up the car with the same oil based exterior paint. Fantastic visual story.
I've used Rustoleum (red) and a roller on several of my Ford F150 and F250's over the years and then lettered them with the company name/logo and from 10 fit away they look great and I've never had anyone question things. Just make sure to slightly thin the quart can with either paint thinner, toluene or xylene in order to minimize the orange peel. I've also sprayed (white) Dupont Imron on a few trucks and tanks as well. It all turned out well and I stopped paying Maico and other paint shops for something I could successfully do myself.
Back in the '80s, I helped a friend of mine paint the roof of his Delta 88 with house paint. The vinyl had peeled off and the mastic left sort of an orange peel, so when it was done, the house paint didn't look that different from the original vinyl.
I did something similar years ago to our work truck - an older F-250 that looked good except for the paint, an old contractor orange that faded to a flat and oxidized finish. Our other equipment was contractor red so we wanted to match. A friend suggested a paintjob with a tight nap roller and Rustoleum fire engine red but with a trick. The paint would normally take three days to dry to a touchable finish (this was back in the 1980's) so he said he used a propane torch, the kind used on roofing, the nozzle a couple of feet away from the finish, and went around his truck with it. The finish was "tighter" a lot of the orange peel was reduced and it had a nice finish to it. It was closer to a spray job in appearance. Use at your own risk. I DID NOT do that, he did and he had great results, but I'd go with a heat gun instead.
Fantastic! I rolled a van with this EXACT paint 36 years ago. You know, way before the advent of the 4” roller and the idea that the paint could be tinted something other than white. Then I flipped the van for over 2x what I paid for it--$350!
That’s awesome. I have a buddy that has been working on a car that is now in perfect mechanical condition but the paint job looks terrible and he’s been sitting on this car for almost 2 years because he can’t sell it without a paint job but he’s also too stubborn to actually try this out. I keep telling him the car will sell right away if he just paints it, but he still has it in his head that he needs to take it to a Shop.
I did my truck cap with the same stuff. The cap was used and red. My truck was white. So I went to tractor supply and bought a gallon white implement paint. It worked and held up so well that I bought a gallon of the same in black and rust coated my truck frame. It turned out awesome! I live where a lot of road salt is used every winter. That implement rust oleum paint is oil based. It takes a week to dry firm , but the best stuff I’ve ever used. I used the rollers ace hardware recommended not to clump or ripple. It was like a velvety type material roller. My clear coat is chipping on the truck and I’m not gonna pay a ton to have it start rusting after one snow storm in the salt melt. It so corrosive. I think the auto makers have a deal with state Highway’s to make their cars rot prematurely. It’s bullshit. Thanks for letting me know I wasn’t crazy rolling my truck cap. Can’t tell the difference.
I am glad that you showed that proper preparation is key to a good paint job, whether spraying, rolling, or brushing, it will never look great without proper prep!
WOW... I am so impressed... I "Flip" RVs and Travel Trailers... and I use Walmart EXTERIOR Latex paint Semi-gloss... looks really good and last ... I have had people STOP at my house telling me NOT to do that, that it will not last BAHAHAHAHA... Now... with that being said... I do CLEAN them thoroughly with Awesome I get from the Dollar Store first ... (dilute... 1 ounce to 16 ounces of water in a spray bottle). Years later they all still look great. Thank you for sharing this great video
Thanks for sharing! I’d never use latex but I’ve seen some latex applications that are rock tough. Always surprising. Probably quality of materials and, of course, prep!
I didn’t even know there *was* tractor paint! I’m looking to repair some spots on my black Toyota & this may be the way to go. Very cool to watch thanks.
Be careful it’s the right gloss and color. Make sure it’s the right product for you. I have a black T100 but since most the paint is good I’ll be using a different product…. Not sure what yet. Thanks for watching.
@@CAHOBBES : I’ve painted using canned paint quite a bit over the past 40 years, even in confined spaces, but the only noticeable effects I got were along the lines of irritated eyes & nostrils, but even that was rare. Are you thinking of what happens when you use spray paint in confined spaces by any chance, bc that can mess with your brain function without a doubt and should never be done.
What I cut out of the footage was a couple of shots showing that we had multiple box fan set up at the bottom of the garage door with a piece of filtering material run across them to keep fresh air circulating into the space. You hardly noticed any fumes whatsoever with this paint for some reason, but we did have adequate ventilation.
Good video, just discovered you today. Looks good. I know what you mean as I grew up without a father too. I started taking apart everything and learned how to rebuild . I've used this same paint . Now at 63 I find I learn a great deal from so many on Utube. Thank you.
Back in the day,... 1968. My dad purchased a 1951! Chevy for me to drive back and forth to college. It had one owner who rarely drove it all those years. The car was in great shape ...other than the navy blue paint had faded big time. I asked my dad if we could paint it. He went in the garage and returned with a gallon of paint and a brush!
It's amazing the results you can get with a bit of prep and care. I found an electric "airless" paint gun (kinda like a Wagner power painter) meant for decks and such....I used it to paint a fender for the heck of it and I was AMAZED at the finish.. .painted thick paint (like this tractor paint) perfectly.....will also spray Flexidip well too! Very low oversprsy and super fast.....
Wow. I can't believe how nice that turned out. Some would have wanted to junk the vehicle, (though, it's a Honda, and I believe that's considered a sin ) Haha, ,but you brought it back to life. That's a job well done.
I feel that very same way about so many things. Haha. I watched Norm Abrahm build incredible woodworking projects for years. I have wood tools.... but I ain't out building an Amish hutch. haha
This is exactly what I did with my 1982 GMC 3500 cube van (box truck) dark blue Canadian Tire rust paint. Called it Big Blue, looked good enough for a Vending machine work truck.
I used the Sanding wheel on my Chevy van, took it down to bare metal as the Chevy primer was like Teflon for any paint on it. Chemical stripper was useless. Painted it with rust oleum primer and three coats of spray on automotive paint. Great video, thanks for sharing your tips.
I just finish painting a car with Rustoleum spray cans. I used gloss black and the cans with the variable spray pattern, sold at Home Depot. One of the can nozzles started dripping and messed up the hood. Overall it’s turned out OK, but I’m thinking your method is better, mainly because it takes much less time. Well done. Thanks for showing how and the results. I’ll check out the long version.
I painted my 75 Harley with Kraylon spray bombs. Follow all the rules for spraying with a paint gun and you can get a very good paint job. I liked that I could wash my bike and scrub the paint with steel wool and not hurt the paint job.
My son in law and two grandsons painted the hood of my 2001 F350 with black satin Rustoleum 3 years ago and it still looks great. I prepped it like you have did the van because the clear coat was basically gone. I did the top of the cab with a roller and it came out well. You can’t really see it anyway. Thanks for the video.
Did this with rustolium red,used a foam roller, and after thinning out the first coat,getting thicker for every coat,4 coats,it looks great,took about 5 days, one coat per day...
I am 78 years old and have painted 4 vehicles with rustoleum. all of them came out good. 2 with a good grade of brush and 2 with sprayers. 60 chevy station wagon, 66 chevelle, 70 nova and 67 chevy van. regular rustoleum works fine but I would take your recommendation for the tractor paint into serious consideration. good idea
I once painted a panel van with this type of paint, I used satin black and the results amazed me, it looked like it had been coated in carbon fibre. did it just like that, using mini rollers, it was quick drying so when I got one coat on it was time to start again, I did three coats and every time I got smoother,
Exactly. Every coat gets smoother. And honestly, if you do the last cod or two with an even thinner mix and a brush, it gets really really, really smooth.
Right on! Honestly.... to you and me it makes a lot of sense, but there are plenty of people that have never even considered the idea. Mainly, because they see so many rattle can primered hondas rolling around that anything related to krylon seems like a death warrant for your public image. lol
I love rustoleum. I painted a skin-on-frame kayak with their Porch and Floor Coating Urethane Fortified Acryllic Formula, clear, tinted with powder. It has remained flexible over the years. No cracking.
Fortune, lower coating urethane is definitely better for some of the more flexible type of projects out there. I would probably recommend that for painting trailer decks before I recommended the tractor paint. Thanks for commenting. I always enjoy a good kayak story.
I have seen people in a boat yard using a paint kit from a marine supply store, it was also a roll on with a special small roller much like the one you used. They showed it coming out real glossy. I know it was pricier than the Rustoleum paint. I believe the thinner mix they used was more critically mixed for the wet look they got. But for the time and money your van turned out great and I'm sure you noticed how much better it seemed to run also!
I've been watching a few "How to paint cars videos" and as someone who doesn't have spray equipment ths rioller technic makes me consider trying it, Thanks!
Great advice! Beautiful End. Had the same idea myself since Maaco has gone ballistic in price. Was 500$ for basic now 1500$ in Houston. Thanks for great tips and encouragement!
I painted my 1980 Honda Civic with regular Rustoleum paint and a 4" roller. I just washed it first with no sanding and didn't thin the paint. It took a little more than a quart of paint and 1 foam roller. It cost about $30. I didn't like the color as much as I thought I would so I repainted it with a different color that turned out just fine. The paint held up well in the New Mexico climate of high altitude (lots of sun) and no humidity. Each coat took about half a day to do. If I get tired of the current color I can do a repaint with no trouble. I highly recommend this fix for older cars with paint cancer; you will be amazed at the transformation.
People might laugh and say it's cheap and tacky. But remember that paint they had on That Van was done by a Paint Sprayer at the Factory and it didn't hold all that well. What I'm trying to say is nothing last forever. Everything gets old and worn so why pay thousands of dollars on something u can do at home that just might last just as long or longer . In the end that Van looked great and it is an old Vehicle. Great Job .
I used paint stripper and wrapped the area with cling film sealing in the stripper to prevent it drying out and maximizing the reaction over longer time. Worked well after removing cling film by folding back a bit at a time and scraping at the reacted blown up paint. You wouldn't use so much stripper this way.!
@@thejoyoffixing It good to do it on a warmer day applying and covering as you go along. Because the reaction of the stripper to paint is that much more violent and speeded up.
I love to learn something new and you taught me how to fix my cars paint job! Bravo! I had a van years ago that I loved and the roof started to go. I wish I had seen your video then!
I roller painted a school bus with white tractor paint, and then lived in it for ten years. It was extremely durable, and the white paint reflected so much sunlight that if the windows were open, the interior of the bus wouldn't get hotter than the ambient air temperature in the summer.
Love this. I have 2000 lexus that needs this same kind of love! My sister and i refurbished our kitchen counters with rustoleum enamel in gray gloss. Beautiful and cheap!!
I worked in aviation for years. I got pretty good at rolling paint (epoxy paints) in wing/body fairings, etc. Some came out so well, you would have thought it was sprayed..
Years ago I worked in the oilfield. We painted and repainted that drilling rig all the time. And we had gallon after gallon, and if we were too busy to paint every day, soon there were extras. We all took home gallon after gallon, and it was just like this implement paint. The down side? It was always the companies colors for all their rigs. Good video.👍
That’s an AWESOME story! I knew a guy who had a similar situation with a truck fleet body shop at a huge local hauling company. Bright metallic blue with galaxy sparkle on 50+ Kenworth and International trucks. Over 20 F-250’s. Multiple other facilities vehicles. He would just spray his stuff on slow days. All that same color. His entire family.
I learned a cool trick when I did this when you use those rollers sometimes you will see little bubbles if you immediately take a hair dryer to it just quickly pass over it they all pop and it lays almost perfectly
As a hobby, I've been restoring tools I inherited from my in-laws. Everything from hand trucks, 7 ton jack stands, pipe wrenches, etc. I use the Tractor paint in rattle cans and it comes out very nice.
@@thejoyoffixing I think it was a 1976, green and white, we came across country with 3 children,mom and dad, a dog and a cat. Such good memories. my dad rebuilt the engine several times.
I'm a 66 year old woman. My dad died when I was 17 and I had no close male relatives. I lived in an apartment in the city until I was 35. I used to help my dad with jobs at home. My mum wasn't into DIY. She died when I was 26. I taught myself, with the help of books, to do my own basic DIY. I grew to love it! Eventually I moved to the country to a house with a garden. I taught myself to garden. I still love to DIY. I think my husband (I won't even let him know where the key to the shed is) would go pale if I rocked up with a can of tractor paint and a roller 😂 However, next time my wheelbarrow goes rusty I'll be right on it😂 I don't even know where to buy tractor paint in the UK. Maybe I'll start looking now😊
I’m not sure about the UK. You’re gonna have to do some investigating! Thanks for sharing your story. We moved to the country a few years ago and it suits us much better. It’s a more hands-on life, which is fulfilling.
UK has great paint seller stores. One that I know of is called paints4trade . Just google that and go to their "Agricultural & Tractor Paint" section. Some great color selection available there too.
I have painted several vehicles with VanSickle oil based implement paint(similar to this). Be aware that most of these enamels will crack and flake off of the flexible plastic parts like the bumpers. Also most of these types of paint do not have UV protection so they will get chalky and fade, (you might want to put rattle can automotive clear coat over it later to stop that). I also found Namptha to be a much easier thinner to use instead of mineral spirits, you get dry to the touch in 2-4 hours instead of 2-4 days.......overall really good for a roll on job.
Very good points! It should be common sense, but plastic is a flexible substrate and if it’s impacted… you’re gonna get crackle. Seen it on 1000 factory paint jobs. Or anything you paint with an enamel over a forgiving substrate. Thanks for the comment!
This just made me smile! We owned cars in the late 70s and early 80s which would have been greatly improved by this technique! We focused on fixing the mechanics though, just to keep them running.
I always wanted to do what you did! I had some old 62, 63 Rambler wagon and a 65 Rambler 550 Classic. But in them days (70's) we didn't have Enamel paint like you used in this video!
You both did a good job. I'm never going to buy a Honda again myself (Odyssey and Civic), for the cost you would expect them to have better paint jobs. Even my GMC has thicker paint. Never thought of using that paint. Thanks for the great idea and video.
Nice job! I did that to my pickup truck about 15 years ago. I used regular Rust-Oleum and a foam roller. Neighbors were peeking out their windows looking at me as though I had lost my mind. Well the paints still on there but not quite as shiny and it does keep rustin check. Definitely outlasted the factory paint.
Just did the rear doors on my white 95 suburban. Used Rustoleum clean metal primer and oil enamel paint, both white. Going to do a second coat but so far its amazing looking. Have some bad rust on rockers and door bottoms which i havent figured out what to about do yet. Have a HF 220 mig welder but never tried because i dont have 220 outlet. Great advice, thanks.
Honestly some aerosol cans of the two-part 2K clear coat would make that thing look really really nice. Yes you're going to have orange peel from the rolling and the brush work, but at the end of the day it's not a big deal if you are not personally worried about it. Nice work overall and a major improvement from its previous state.
Nice work! It makes me happy to see the younger folks such as yourselves saving $$ and looking good doing it. I have brush painted 2 Jeeps in the past, a 1952 M38 and a 1963 CJ5. I used real military surplus olive drab paint that I was able to source at Twin Cities Surplus in Reno, Nv. It was strange paint. I tried every type of thinner available, none of which worked. So it got brushed on just as it came from the can. I did use all brushes, no rollers. Cheap brushes, as they were toast afterwards. The stuff self leveled really well, was tough as nails, and if you every scraped it up off roading, easy touch up. Most people seeing it had no clue. The first one I did was in 1998 (or 99), the second one was in 2003. Pretty sure that paint is no longer available, so it's good to know about this product. I currently have a 73 Jeep project slowly getting done, and it will be getting the Rustoleum Farm and Implement treatment. THX!
I painted my first race car with tractor paint. Didn't realize it took a longer time to completely dry. Raced on a dusty dirt track... the car was a mess by the night was over, lol. Anyway, your van turned out great.
I have an ollllllld gray Ferguson Tractor and it is truly a beautiful color. I've used the gray from this product line and honestly it was my first choice to paint this van. However, it was a blue van and I figured if I wasn't doing primer it would be better more even coverage and final product sticking with a blue. But, seriously, that Massey-Ferguson grey is by far the best overall looking color in the product line. Agreed 100%
@@thejoyoffixing I roller brushed my 07 Croen Victoria Police Interceptor that has really bad chipping and peeling paint. I did the exact same as you did. 4 coats with wet sands in between and topped off with a clear coat and buff/wax and it was gorgeous
First thing I will say is thank you for your perspective of helping people that may not have had a father figure or someone else in their life to help them. This is so commendable! I am getting ready to do this same thing with an old jeep using the same paint (but gloss black) and am really looking forward to it. I will probably use a brush though to try and get it as smooth as possible and then sand between coats. This looks fantastic for a quick paint job!
Thanks so much. And, yeah, it’s all about the kids learning to solve problems and learn to do things with their hands. My dream would be that this channel could get so big that I could afford to open a small part-time shop that mentored young adults that weren’t going to college and didn’t have any trade skills or even basic skills. Until then… I’ll post stuff here. Ha Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll subscribe and we can stay in touch through the comments section. Great to meet you.
Great job. Getting a full paint job done at a shop these days is nearly impossible in that it will cost more than the vehicle is worth. We used to be able to get a car painted for a grand plus or minus a few hundred, now body shops are essentially collision repair shops.
Most shops around me dont want to touch a vehicle unless it's a insurance job.cheapest I came across who was willing to do it was $8,000 for a 99 TJ.No rust no dents.
I had an old full sized station wagon. When I was a kid no rust holes but total surface rust. So I had an old gallon of black tractor paint. So I took a paint roller and painted the entire car with the Black paint and a roller while parked in the driveway. Because of the roller the car had a slight texture over the surface rust. From a few feet away you had a hard time noticing the texture. My buddies couldn't believe how good it looked.
I've watched a couple of these "paint your car" videos now and I've gotta say, try a sprayer. I did the floor pans on my daughters car and used that paint on the underside to protect the steel. Out of a sprayer you'll get nearly a professional level look, no orange peel anyway. A proper spray gun will kick the job up about 10 notches.
If I were not old and disabled, I would paint my car! It’s not in as bad a shape as yours but as a 2003, it’s beginning to look like it needs refreshing. With only 73,000 miles, it still has a lot of miles left in it. I hope! Thanks for the video. The car looks great! 😊
There are also products you can add to the paint that will help with it laying down smooth, like flowtrol. (HD, Amazon, any paint store.) It extends dry time and helps smooth out the paint texture. Glad you taped it off before painting- it might even be a good idea to do that before sanding...
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Thank you for this video, did my car with their Kubota Orange, two coats....it came out great. Painted it with a 4 inch roller.
I never thought u could paint a car with a roller and it not look like complete ass. Did you wet sand it and try to make it nice and smooth? It came out pretty good but would like to see it in the sun 😊 nice work
What size or type of paint u use, that would not get off easlily from the suface?
In a time where most people would buy or finance a new car and then sleepwalk into debt, It's nice to see someone else using ingenuity and simply fixing the problem, Good work!
Life is a lot more manageable when you appreciate you have instead of always trying to get something you don't. If what you got is fixable, not dangerous and serves your needs.... save the headache of debt and fix it.
Great comment. Thank you.
Even if you were to sell it and get a better car,you'd be miles ahead with that spiffy new color! Nobody would want to buy that ol crusty one.
Exactly!
Yah, but without idiots, the slow, stupid and uneducated, car salesmen would starve! Think of it was a tax on the stupid.
@@thejoyoffixingI needed this comment. I have a 2008 Dodge RAM that's served me well since new, I've debated trading for a shiny new one but I'm thinking I'll be fine with a new chrome bumper a new driver seat and new headlights. 95% of paint is fine. It's a pickup after all. Lol. Would like a follow-up video if you haven't posted, how's the paint holding up after a year?
As a painter at a body shop,I give y'all a ten! That's called getting your monies worth! Living in a small town I seen some farmers do this to like big farm trucks and they looked fairly good but you guys nailed it. Macco ain't got nothing on you!
@@SUBtoMYChannelEvery1 Totally Agree, for dollar cost, wetsand, hit it with a 2K clear (which is cheap too) and it will look like a million bucks. Easy. As an upgrade to this process with the roller is to use a spray gun, which can be had for cheap from HF, gravity fed HVLP, and you can take it all the way to the next level. Without really much cost increase. But for dirt cheap roller job, it's not bad and can be made next level for a tiny bit more.. though I don't know of any 2K that can be rolled on... Oh.. wait. They have rattle can 2K now
BOOM, no gun needed, grab those 2k rattle cans after a wetsand and that will look like a true auto-spray job.
I bet it would look even better through a cheap gun.
would more thinner make a smoother finish? as in the original recommendation of 5%?
You are too kind!!!! Thanks for seeing the improvement!
More coats. More thinner. Some brush tipping…. You could create a masterpiece
Well, most people forgot that this was the way people painted their cars and trucks back in the day and it can be done even today. Good show! 👍
People would rather spend their money than spend their time. Unfortunately painting a car is crazy expensive so most people get rid of the car. Sad. A little effort goes a very long way.
Thanks for the comment.
@@thejoyoffixingpeople don’t have time or know how these days and if you want a specific paint job this doesn’t really work. this is a cheap paint job no matter how you wanna look at it. it doesn’t mean its bad though
@thejoyoffixing that one statement, "most people would rather spend their money than their time", such truth! Thank you! 😊😊
@@Videoswithsoarin Yeah but most people did cheap paint jobs, these new "specific" paint jobs were. Even back in the day when someone had a mirror perfct paint job, it was done labour intensive and cheap. Think of it as spending the whole weekend buffing the car to a mirror finish, vs it coming out with the paint done to a mirror shine... Also as for not knowing how, he showed you how to do it. If you decide "No I want a mirror finish with expensive paints, and not one thing wrong", then either spend an extra 20 hours and use spray cans and polish it over and over, or do like he did and have a good paint job on an old car and maybe remove some of the embarassment of the failing paint job, and get another 5-10 years out of a perfectly good honest car.
IN 1958 I watched my dad paint his 1940 Ford with a brush and tractor paint. That paint leveled so well you could not see brush strokes when it was done.
Exactly! Thanks for being part of the discussion!
I'm guessing that paint leveled better back then, before they came in with all the low VOC rules?
Guaranteed
Wow that’s awesome thank you for sharing. I’m getting ready to do this in my car. it’s not worth selling to buy something else and get into debt, so I’ll fix it up for cheap and put another 250k miles on it.
My Grampa used to paint his station wagons with a brush,and roller.Even let me help. I love him like a father .
I miss my grandpa very much. I understand
Did this back in 1980 on my then 1967 Plymouth fury III sedan -383 4bb…. Glad to see my idea still made sense all these yrs later
The old ways are the best ways
Lol i have a plymouth firy III convertible 383 …sunbright yellow…..car floats down the road
Thanks for inventing this technique.
I have an 03 Silverado crew cab. It has the cancer. I’ve been painting it with rustoleum for 12 years. I give it fresh coat every couple years. The paint is literally holding the truck together now.
Haha. That’s awesome.
I should try this on my 01 Silverado Crew cab with over 300,000 miles
Perfect candidate.
It has the cancer🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you don’t want to grind everything down - can you just clean it and paint over rusty areas?
I remember first seeing this method several years ago in Hot Rod magazine. They rolled on white rustoleum, let dry, and then sanded each coat. It took a few days but it came out good and cost about $100.
Absolutely! It’s a great trick.
Few days? 😂 Few weeks?
What # of sandpaper do you use after each coat?
I have a 21 yr old F150 and my roof looked like yours, I tried spray can paint and realized I’ll need about 20 cans. So I bought a quart of rust oleum hi gloss white exterior oil base paint and brushed it on nice and thick, you would not believe how well it looks. It’s not picture perfect but it made me happy. And because it’s the roof only a helicopter can see the blemishes….lol. So thumbs up to you guys for making this video.
Thanks dude. I got try that high gloss oil based on something!
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I brush-painted my first car back in 1969. I used oil based gloss porch and deck enamel custom mixed at Ace Hardware. The color I used was called Peacock Blue! It was an improvement for a $100 car!
Great color! Very nice!
Pro tip: I have been doing these paint jobs for years and Rustoleum is enamel paint but only comes in a few basic colors off the shelf. However there is an alternative called XO Rust at True Value hardware and you can get any color from their color charts you want mixed there.
XO enamel paint is the same enamel paint as Rustoleum. I did an army green Subaru Outback and it looks awesome. The paint lasts for years with no chipping or peeling. XO Rust is a game changer because you are not stuck with the basic colors Rustoleum offers.
I will absolutely check that out. Sadly I’m like 60 miles from an ace hardware but I get there occasionally
I like the fact that , you painted a minivan with tractor paint . You debunked those elitist bozos , who think we are somehow demasculated for having a minivan . Rock on bro !
Nothing wrong with a van!
I had a old Chevy C-10 PUT that had started to rust. After washing the thing and wiping it down with paint thinner I took a 4" brush and a can of Rustoleum Forrest Green paint and covered the places I could get at. The result was much nicer than several colors of primer. It lasted another decade or so.
No need to spend a couple of thousand for a spray paint job when a good brush will do.
You’re completely on the same wavelength, Greg. Man after my own heart.
My brother & i painted my aunts 1988 Pontiac Grand Am with the horrid original paint..we prepared the body with paint stripper & fully sanded the body..we rented a Airless Paint Sprayer & used Rustoleum Self Primer Paint..We picked "Gold Leaf"Metallic Paint..after taping & masking everything we wet down the dirt the night before in the backyard next morning we shot the paint & it really looks great for a amateur paint job..No drips or runs my aunt was very happy with the looks..
Gold leaf metallic on the 88 pontiac. Bro.... that is ready for a maroon crushed velvet interior, some legit 80 spoke dayton's and possibly some curb feelers just for bragging rights. VERY old school.
My grandfather used to do this to his tractors and cars, and I never knew until someone told me. Great job! This inspires me to do the same.
That is awesome! And I always like to hear grandpa stories.
I caught myself thinking "what? Nooo" many times but you solved the problem, you did it cheap, and it's a great solution. Thanks for sharing, dude!
I found myself feeling the same way as I did this project but by the time the first coat was on it all started really being worth the effort!
Thanks for the comment!
I used the red oxide paint with a roller on my old truck and it came out great. It’s easy to touch up and lasts a long time. The local shops wanted $10,000 to $15,000 for a paint job. They’re out of their minds!
Truly insane.
These prices are due to insurance and EPA crap.
Who knew more regulation would impact the consumer. Huh….
Correct. After a certain age the goal should be to prevent rust and a decent look
That's not true, you can get a closed door respray for $1500-3k depending on the products used and condition of panels. 15k paint jobs have a lot of body work involved, body shops/panel beaters/spray painters are one of the worst paid trades. Just because you can't see the work involved doesn't mean they are out of their mind.
The best thing about using s paint roller is you don't have to worry about overspray. Awesome video
Exactly!
Son, thats a dang good job with Rustoleum Farm and Implement paint! I give it a 💯
Thanks very much!
Back in the late 1980‘s a co-worker who like to hunt in pretty rough areas in Washington State, Idaho and Oregon painted his truck with Rhino Liner (truck bed liner). Looked a little weird at first but it saved his truck from all the scrapes and scratches and small bumps from driving through thick sagebrush, overgrown fields and wooded areas. A homeowner on Santa Rosa Island in the panhandle of Florida painted his entire house with Rhino Liner colored the same color as the sugar sand found on the beach there. His was a concrete dome home, 3 stories tall. Looked great and survived a head-on hit from a hurricane. Cheers
That is an awesome story! I’ve always wondered why shingle roofs don’t get some sort of topcoat to really seal them up.
@@thejoyoffixingthey actually do have a product now that can extend life for 5 to 7 yrs.
Interesting. Wonder what happens if you spray it every 3 years. Probably horrible chemicals polluting our water supply but maybe not! I’m pretty worried about the future with hydrophobic chemicals all over. But who knows… maybe it’s what our intestines crave!
Great job thanks for the ideas
No problem! Thanks for watching.
Ford would pour black lacquer over the Model Ts with a hose and let it run and drip off. I believe most auto manufactures used Dulux enamel back in the fifties, sprayed on, but no hardner-just straight enamel and air dry. Great video-so nice to see someone turn back the clock decades to common sense and simplicity.
I appreciate that. It’s amazing how far we’ve strayed from proven methods for the sake of cutting costs and increasing profits. They don’t make stuff like they used to.
I painted aJeep this summer with regular Rustoleum. I like to thin around forty percent and then add some hardner. The amount of thinning depends on your temperature. I also wet sand with 1000 grit between coats. After it dries for a week wet sand with 1000 grit then 1500 grit. Finish with meguiar's ultimate compound. You will end up with a nice shiny ride. Prep work will determine the quality of your paint job.
Literally everything is in the prep. Painting can happen as fast as you want. But dang..... like anything else.... prep is EVERYTHING.
Thanks for your tips ,they'll be a great help in my van project.
What exactly is “regular” Rustoleum though? They have several versions now.
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Any of the oil based Rust-Oleum will work. I didn't notice a difference between the different ones that were oil based.
It didn't have to put clear on it?
Good work, and a huge improvement on that van. I've been doing something similar on my old Land Cruiser using their Professional paints and mixing Safety Yellow with Flat Black in 8 to 3.5 ratio for a real nice shade of OD green. You hit the nail on the head with the roller size and going section by section.
One thing I did differently though was to dilute 50% with mineral spirits (so a 1:1 ratio of mineral spirits to paint). This thinned it out much more and allowed much better self levelling with the paint, along with being better able to work over areas that flash while you're doing a larger panel. The only caveat to such a drastic dilution is the extra time needed to continually apply thin coats as you build up, but it's very much worth it to me.
I agree, and have said it in a lot of my response comments... If you wanna really get a smooooth finish..... more mineral spirits (thinner) and many many more coats. The more time and the more thin coats you apply, the better then end result will be visually. This project didn't matter that much to me with visual perfection. 20 year old van.... gotta stop the rust and get all the panels matching. It was a no brainer. BUT.... I have a friend who just rebuilt a very nice subaru that has some paint issues. she's absolutely beautiful mechanically and with the interior so..... trying to talk him into the ol roller and brush!
Looks to me like you could probably wet sand with some fine paper once it's fully cured and make it look even better. This was definitely a major improvement to the van!
Wet sand, tack wipe and spray several cans of two part clear coat (Eastwood and SprayMax make 2K clear coat in spray cans) and it'd look great! 2K clear coat the restored plastic headlights to keep them from yellowing and clouding in a year or two as well.
Just didn’t matter on this one. But you’re probably right, it could be done!
“People who didn’t have a dad growing up”
I did have a father, but we didn’t really do a lot of projects like this together. We did other things. But I didn’t really have anybody in my life who knew how to do anything on vehicles or a lot of other handy things. My dad definitely had a skill set, but There’s just things he was never exposed to or never had an opportunity to work on either. I know that there’s young kids out there now or even kids entering their 20s that maybe just grew up not getting exposed to how to do things with their hands. I had to mostly learn the hard way or through my own research and I just want to share any little tips. I learn along the way. It’s a great privilege to be older and gain knowledge and share it with younger people if they’re willing to listen. You can save them decades of frustration. Trying to repeat your mistakes. Giving them cheat codes to success. Plus, they also get to see the wrong way to do it sometimes, ha ha.
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I did not have a dad but thank God I had a grandpa, uncles and other upright men around me to teach, instill knowledge and mentor or I'd be helpless. But I'm not ashamed to be "TH-cam certified" on things I don't know. Thank you for the video
Great vid! I painted my old truck with Rustoleum. I used a
Titan 440 airless sprayer, in my backyard. I masked a lot. It still came out killer. You have some excellent painting tips in this. With your prep and the thickness off the paint through rolling, it will outlast the vehicle. And, I believe that it is possible to work that paint into a consistent shine with a high speed buffer, lambs wool pad and polish!
Totally agreed on all points!
I salute your “let’s do this” attitude! That’s how I grew up. 👍
It’s a much more fulfilling way to live! Thanks!
I just painted my car with a brush and roller, parked on the street. (It looks great!)
Peolle walking by would ask what I was doing? "Pianting my car." Most replied with "you can't paint a car like that."
Sure can.
The “you can’t do that that way” people have always been the most stubborn and rigid minded people I’ve known. They even get mad you’re not doing things the way they would. It’s wild
Even if it looked like crap they'd still be wrong. You can paint your car however you see fit.
It is hard for many people when things are done "wrong". Cars are kind of holy cows of these days. Even 4wd "offroad" cars need to be spotless and scratch and bump free. When I worked in Africa those cars went to bushes, they had scratches and bumps. When paint surface broke they slapped in some greenish roof paint with a brush and it was good to go again. Those cars were TOOLS, NOT JEWELRY.
@@bannedtwice7767 Trust me, the first few I did looked terrible. A 1970 Ford Maverick was my first; exterior high gloss chocolate brown.
Cop pulled me over, because I was driving it the day after painting, and it hadn't dried completely. So it was covered in leafs and pine needles. The cop leaned on the car, and he got brown paint on his hand. He laughed so hard, "Kid, what have you done to this car?"
Live, and learn.
I used Van Sickle Tractor paint with their hardener to make it last a long time and not go chalky. I used Case Flambeau Red - which is really a deep orange and after three years it still has a nice shine. The best part is that you can touch up any minor scratches easily and the match is still good. Adding a clear coat would be the next thing to do, and you can wet sand the color coat to make it super smooth using it as a primer/filler so that the clear coat has no roller marks before you put it on. I suggest a spray application of the clear coat - a roller will only put new roller marks into the surface again. .
Exactly! Tye ability to go high quality touch up is a great bonus!
Van Sickle makes some fantastic products. When I worked at Sherwin Williams, we had several people use SherKem implement paint due to film hardness and gloss retention. If you prep and take your time, you can absolutely make it work.
And while rolling it is okay, I would probably recommend a cup gun spray setup instead, to minimize orange peel or uneven application. Good results regardless.
I think if I was gonna use a spray gun it would be a cup sprayer for sure. Nothing beats a hopper.
Regardless, it turned out really, really well. Sometimes those rollers can surprise ya.
I know I was surprised!
WOW! That looks great. When I was a kid (about 60 years ago) one of neighbors was a house painter. He painted hid old van with whatever oil based paint was left over from a job. It changed colors weekly. Once a year he sanded much of it off and started over. This looks way better than that. Thinking of my 20 year old truck right now.
My grandfather used to tell us the story about his old neighbor lady that would spend a week touching up her home every spring and then finish by touching up the car with the same oil based exterior paint. Fantastic visual story.
I've used Rustoleum (red) and a roller on several of my Ford F150 and F250's over the years and then lettered them with the company name/logo and from 10 fit away they look great and I've never had anyone question things. Just make sure to slightly thin the quart can with either paint thinner, toluene or xylene in order to minimize the orange peel. I've also sprayed (white) Dupont Imron on a few trucks and tanks as well. It all turned out well and I stopped paying Maico and other paint shops for something I could successfully do myself.
Back in the '80s, I helped a friend of mine paint the roof of his Delta 88 with house paint. The vinyl had peeled off and the mastic left sort of an orange peel, so when it was done, the house paint didn't look that different from the original vinyl.
I did something similar years ago to our work truck - an older F-250 that looked good except for the paint, an old contractor orange that faded to a flat and oxidized finish. Our other equipment was contractor red so we wanted to match. A friend suggested a paintjob with a tight nap roller and Rustoleum fire engine red but with a trick. The paint would normally take three days to dry to a touchable finish (this was back in the 1980's) so he said he used a propane torch, the kind used on roofing, the nozzle a couple of feet away from the finish, and went around his truck with it. The finish was "tighter" a lot of the orange peel was reduced and it had a nice finish to it. It was closer to a spray job in appearance. Use at your own risk. I DID NOT do that, he did and he had great results, but I'd go with a heat gun instead.
I think everything you said is correct. Thanks for being part of the conversation!
Fantastic! I rolled a van with this EXACT paint 36 years ago. You know, way before the advent of the 4” roller and the idea that the paint could be tinted something other than white. Then I flipped the van for over 2x what I paid for it--$350!
That’s awesome. I have a buddy that has been working on a car that is now in perfect mechanical condition but the paint job looks terrible and he’s been sitting on this car for almost 2 years because he can’t sell it without a paint job but he’s also too stubborn to actually try this out. I keep telling him the car will sell right away if he just paints it, but he still has it in his head that he needs to take it to a Shop.
I did my truck cap with the same stuff. The cap was used and red. My truck was white. So I went to tractor supply and bought a gallon white implement paint. It worked and held up so well that I bought a gallon of the same in black and rust coated my truck frame. It turned out awesome! I live where a lot of road salt is used every winter. That implement rust oleum paint is oil based. It takes a week to dry firm , but the best stuff I’ve ever used. I used the rollers ace hardware recommended not to clump or ripple. It was like a velvety type material roller. My clear coat is chipping on the truck and I’m not gonna pay a ton to have it start rusting after one snow storm in the salt melt. It so corrosive. I think the auto makers have a deal with state Highway’s to make their cars rot prematurely. It’s bullshit. Thanks for letting me know I wasn’t crazy rolling my truck cap. Can’t tell the difference.
Dud I agree with everything you said. Mag Chloride is as questionable as the Flouride industry. YOU'RE NOT CRAZY! THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE CRAZY! haha
I am glad that you showed that proper preparation is key to a good paint job, whether spraying, rolling, or brushing, it will never look great without proper prep!
Prep is 75% of any job!
This is exactly what I would do if I had an older vehicle that needed repainting......You guys did a fantastic job.
Thank you so much
Very nice, been a mechanic and shop owner 45 yrs. Always good to see young people fixing up their own stuff. Good job, thanks for sharing ❤
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WOW...
I am so impressed...
I "Flip" RVs and Travel Trailers... and I use Walmart EXTERIOR Latex paint Semi-gloss... looks really good and last ...
I have had people STOP at my house telling me NOT to do that, that it will not last
BAHAHAHAHA...
Now... with that being said... I do CLEAN them thoroughly with Awesome I get from the Dollar Store first ... (dilute... 1 ounce to 16 ounces of water in a spray bottle).
Years later they all still look great.
Thank you for sharing this great video
Thanks for sharing! I’d never use latex but I’ve seen some latex applications that are rock tough. Always surprising. Probably quality of materials and, of course, prep!
I didn’t even know there *was* tractor paint! I’m looking to repair some spots on my black Toyota & this may be the way to go. Very cool to watch thanks.
Be careful it’s the right gloss and color. Make sure it’s the right product for you. I have a black T100 but since most the paint is good I’ll be using a different product…. Not sure what yet.
Thanks for watching.
A breath of fresh air in what’s all too often a disposable culture.
Absolutely! Thank you!
Speaking of fresh air, I was wondering how high they got in a closed garage using, I assume petroleum-based Rustoleum paint.
@@CAHOBBES : I’ve painted using canned paint quite a bit over the past 40 years, even in confined spaces, but the only noticeable effects I got were along the lines of irritated eyes & nostrils, but even that was rare. Are you thinking of what happens when you use spray paint in confined spaces by any chance, bc that can mess with your brain function without a doubt and should never be done.
You’re singing my song, brother.
What I cut out of the footage was a couple of shots showing that we had multiple box fan set up at the bottom of the garage door with a piece of filtering material run across them to keep fresh air circulating into the space. You hardly noticed any fumes whatsoever with this paint for some reason, but we did have adequate ventilation.
Good video, just discovered you today. Looks good. I know what you mean as I grew up without a father too. I started taking apart everything and learned how to rebuild . I've used this same paint . Now at 63 I find I learn a great deal from so many on Utube. Thank you.
Thank you so much. I appreciate your kindness and what you shared
@@thejoyoffixing You are welcome !
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Back in the day,... 1968.
My dad purchased a 1951! Chevy for me to drive back and forth to college. It had one owner who rarely drove it all those years.
The car was in great shape ...other than the navy blue paint had faded big time.
I asked my dad if we could paint it.
He went in the garage and returned with a gallon of paint and a brush!
Good job dad. Those post war dudes got stuff done.
I have been looking at a lot of DIY home paint for cars. This is the first roller one. Looks great!
Thanks so much
It's amazing the results you can get with a bit of prep and care. I found an electric "airless" paint gun (kinda like a Wagner power painter) meant for decks and such....I used it to paint a fender for the heck of it and I was AMAZED at the finish.. .painted thick paint (like this tractor paint) perfectly.....will also spray Flexidip well too! Very low oversprsy and super fast.....
I considered this option. After rolling though…. I think I’ll continue to roll.
Wow. I can't believe how nice that turned out. Some would have wanted to junk the vehicle, (though, it's a Honda, and I believe that's considered a sin ) Haha, ,but you brought it back to life. That's a job well done.
Thank you! Check out the 1 year follow up video I just posted
Something that I shall never ever do in my life but so entertaining and relaxing to watch you do it. I love hard work, always ready to watch it.
I feel that very same way about so many things. Haha. I watched Norm Abrahm build incredible woodworking projects for years. I have wood tools.... but I ain't out building an Amish hutch. haha
Looks better than any cheap paint job done. I’d be proud to drive in it! Thanks for sharing.
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This is exactly what I did with my 1982 GMC 3500 cube van (box truck) dark blue Canadian Tire rust paint. Called it Big Blue, looked good enough for a Vending machine work truck.
Dang, I bet that’s an awesome truck. They don’t make them like that anymore! 80s GMC is so desirable!
I used the Sanding wheel on my Chevy van, took it down to bare metal as the Chevy primer was like Teflon for any paint on it. Chemical stripper was useless. Painted it with rust oleum primer and three coats of spray on automotive paint. Great video, thanks for sharing your tips.
Yeah primer is a must on bare metal. I mean… this farm paint supposedly doesn’t need it but it can’t ever hurt!
I just finish painting a car with Rustoleum spray cans. I used gloss black and the cans with the variable spray pattern, sold at Home Depot. One of the can nozzles started dripping and messed up the hood. Overall it’s turned out OK, but I’m thinking your method is better, mainly because it takes much less time.
Well done. Thanks for showing how and the results. I’ll check out the long version.
I painted my 75 Harley with Kraylon spray bombs. Follow all the rules for spraying with a paint gun and you can get a very good paint job. I liked that I could wash my bike and scrub the paint with steel wool and not hurt the paint job.
Thank you! Good luck!
My son in law and two grandsons painted the hood of my 2001 F350 with black satin Rustoleum 3 years ago and it still looks great. I prepped it like you have did the van because the clear coat was basically gone. I did the top of the cab with a roller and it came out well. You can’t really see it anyway. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for your comments!
I've done 2 vehicles with this method and it holds up really well as long as you wax it periodically. Much cheaper than a "real" paint job!
It's worth what you put into it to, what you get out of it. The same goes with you get what you pay for.
Awesome! Glad to hear it. Thank for that comment.
Did this with rustolium red,used a foam roller, and after thinning out the first coat,getting thicker for every coat,4 coats,it looks great,took about 5 days, one coat per day...
That’s a great drying interval! Awesome! Wish we could share pictures here. I should start a Telegram channel or something like that
Thanks for taking the time to create this video. 👍🇺🇸
My pleasure!
I was thinking of doing this! Is it an oil paint?
I’m pretty sure it’s not. It’s an epoxy base.
I am 78 years old and have painted 4 vehicles with rustoleum. all of them came out good. 2 with a good grade of brush and 2 with sprayers. 60 chevy station wagon, 66 chevelle, 70 nova and 67 chevy van. regular rustoleum works fine but I would take your recommendation for the tractor paint into serious consideration. good idea
Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad you took the time. Appreciate you joining the conversation.
I once painted a panel van with this type of paint, I used satin black and the results amazed me, it looked like it had been coated in carbon fibre. did it just like that, using mini rollers, it was quick drying so when I got one coat on it was time to start again, I did three coats and every time I got smoother,
Exactly. Every coat gets smoother. And honestly, if you do the last cod or two with an even thinner mix and a brush, it gets really really, really smooth.
Nice job! The van looks much better. I did my pickup truck with Rustoleum and it's been on there for years.
Right on! Honestly.... to you and me it makes a lot of sense, but there are plenty of people that have never even considered the idea. Mainly, because they see so many rattle can primered hondas rolling around that anything related to krylon seems like a death warrant for your public image. lol
I love rustoleum. I painted a skin-on-frame kayak with their Porch and Floor Coating Urethane Fortified Acryllic Formula, clear, tinted with powder. It has remained flexible over the years. No cracking.
Fortune, lower coating urethane is definitely better for some of the more flexible type of projects out there. I would probably recommend that for painting trailer decks before I recommended the tractor paint. Thanks for commenting. I always enjoy a good kayak story.
I have seen people in a boat yard using a paint kit from a marine supply store, it was also a roll on with a special small roller much like the one you used. They showed it coming out real glossy. I know it was pricier than the Rustoleum paint. I believe the thinner mix they used was more critically mixed for the wet look they got.
But for the time and money your van turned out great and I'm sure you noticed how much better it seemed to run also!
Thank you very much
I've been watching a few "How to paint cars videos" and as someone who doesn't have
spray equipment ths rioller technic makes me consider trying it, Thanks!
No problem. Thanks for watching!
That`s what I call teamwork. Very simple yet brilliant.
Thank you
Great advice! Beautiful End. Had the same idea myself since Maaco has gone ballistic in price. Was 500$ for basic now 1500$ in Houston. Thanks for great tips and encouragement!
I’m glad it was helpful! And, truly, a maaco basic paint job starts peeling at the edges within just a year or 2.
Used enamel (by Rust-Oleum)
on my bus and it's perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. Definitely a durable coating.
Love a bus job! Thanks for the comment.
I painted my 1980 Honda Civic with regular Rustoleum paint and a 4" roller. I just washed it first with no sanding and didn't thin the paint. It took a little more than a quart of paint and 1 foam roller. It cost about $30. I didn't like the color as much as I thought I would so I repainted it with a different color that turned out just fine. The paint held up well in the New Mexico climate of high altitude (lots of sun) and no humidity. Each coat took about half a day to do. If I get tired of the current color I can do a repaint with no trouble. I highly recommend this fix for older cars with paint cancer; you will be amazed at the transformation.
Excellent comment!
People might laugh and say it's cheap and tacky. But remember that paint they had on That Van was done by a Paint Sprayer at the Factory and it didn't hold all that well. What I'm trying to say is nothing last forever. Everything gets old and worn so why pay thousands of dollars on something u can do at home that just might last just as long or longer . In the end that Van looked great and it is an old Vehicle. Great Job .
I used paint stripper and wrapped the area with cling film sealing in the stripper to prevent it drying out and maximizing the reaction over longer time. Worked well after removing cling film by folding back a bit at a time and scraping at the reacted blown up paint. You wouldn't use so much stripper this way.!
That's a very good tip. I've used it many times on woodwork. It did escape my mind when doing the project.
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It good to do it on a warmer day applying and covering as you go along. Because the reaction of the stripper to paint is that much more violent and speeded up.
I love to learn something new and you taught me how to fix my cars paint job! Bravo! I had a van years ago that I loved and the roof started to go. I wish I had seen your video then!
If we knew then what we know now. Lol. It’s ok…. Can’t win them all.
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That is a better looking finish than I would have expected from a roller job.
Same here!
I roller painted a school bus with white tractor paint, and then lived in it for ten years. It was extremely durable, and the white paint reflected so much sunlight that if the windows were open, the interior of the bus wouldn't get hotter than the ambient air temperature in the summer.
That’s a great story. Bus stories are always the best ones.
An old family friend once said "as long as it's eyeable" . If it doesn't cost much and it extends the life of the vehicle it's worth it.
Exactly this. Thank you for the comment.
Love this. I have 2000 lexus that needs this same kind of love! My sister and i refurbished our kitchen counters with rustoleum enamel in gray gloss. Beautiful and cheap!!
Does it chip?
I worked in aviation for years. I got pretty good at rolling paint (epoxy paints) in wing/body fairings, etc. Some came out so well, you would have thought it was sprayed..
Key word is Epoxy! You nailed it
Years ago I worked in the oilfield. We painted and repainted that drilling rig all the time. And we had gallon after gallon, and if we were too busy to paint every day, soon there were extras. We all took home gallon after gallon, and it was just like this implement paint.
The down side? It was always the companies colors for all their rigs.
Good video.👍
That’s an AWESOME story!
I knew a guy who had a similar situation with a truck fleet body shop at a huge local hauling company. Bright metallic blue with galaxy sparkle on 50+ Kenworth and International trucks. Over 20 F-250’s. Multiple other facilities vehicles.
He would just spray his stuff on slow days. All that same color. His entire family.
I learned a cool trick when I did this when you use those rollers sometimes you will see little bubbles if you immediately take a hair dryer to it just quickly pass over it they all pop and it lays almost perfectly
That’s true! Some people use a heat gun.
As a hobby, I've been restoring tools I inherited from my in-laws. Everything from hand trucks, 7 ton jack stands, pipe wrenches, etc. I use the Tractor paint in rattle cans and it comes out very nice.
It’s such a good and practical solution.
Best idea! Was going to pay for a 1990 van ! Now I’m just doing it myself 👍
Awesome! Make sure to watch my 1 year follow up for more tips.
My Dad and I painted our VW bus with a roller and it looked great. You did a fantastic job!!!
Thank you! What year VW? I still regret selling my 1959 and 1968 beetles.
@@thejoyoffixing I think it was a 1976, green and white, we came across country with 3 children,mom and dad, a dog and a cat. Such good memories. my dad rebuilt the engine several times.
Those old vws were such a pleasure to rebuild.
I'm a 66 year old woman. My dad died when I was 17 and I had no close male relatives. I lived in an apartment in the city until I was 35. I used to help my dad with jobs at home. My mum wasn't into DIY. She died when I was 26. I taught myself, with the help of books, to do my own basic DIY. I grew to love it! Eventually I moved to the country to a house with a garden. I taught myself to garden. I still love to DIY. I think my husband (I won't even let him know where the key to the shed is) would go pale if I rocked up with a can of tractor paint and a roller 😂 However, next time my wheelbarrow goes rusty I'll be right on it😂 I don't even know where to buy tractor paint in the UK. Maybe I'll start looking now😊
I’m not sure about the UK. You’re gonna have to do some investigating!
Thanks for sharing your story. We moved to the country a few years ago and it suits us much better. It’s a more hands-on life, which is fulfilling.
Sorry to hear, but you are 1 in a million! Parents would be proud.
UK has great paint seller stores. One that I know of is called paints4trade . Just google that and go to their "Agricultural & Tractor Paint" section. Some great color selection available there too.
Thank you for sharing your story. It brought a smile to my face!
I have painted several vehicles with VanSickle oil based implement paint(similar to this). Be aware that most of these enamels will crack and flake off of the flexible plastic parts like the bumpers. Also most of these types of paint do not have UV protection so they will get chalky and fade, (you might want to put rattle can automotive clear coat over it later to stop that). I also found Namptha to be a much easier thinner to use instead of mineral spirits, you get dry to the touch in 2-4 hours instead of 2-4 days.......overall really good for a roll on job.
Very good points! It should be common sense, but plastic is a flexible substrate and if it’s impacted… you’re gonna get crackle. Seen it on 1000 factory paint jobs. Or anything you paint with an enamel over a forgiving substrate.
Thanks for the comment!
Wow nice job guys. You should be proud of your work!
Thank you so much!
This just made me smile! We owned cars in the late 70s and early 80s which would have been greatly improved by this technique! We focused on fixing the mechanics though, just to keep them running.
We’ve always focused on the mechanical aspect as well. It was nice to finally know a way to address the paint though.
With the crazy prices of body shops, painting your car with a roller makes sense.
I wouldn’t do it on a fancy car! But this is a real game changer for many of us!
I always wanted to do what you did! I had some old 62, 63 Rambler wagon and a 65 Rambler 550 Classic. But in them days (70's) we didn't have Enamel paint like you used in this video!
Yeah but I bet they had some super crazy Dupont products with lead in it that would stick for 1000 years.
LOTS of guys in the 50's brush painted their cars. Thinned enamels much like you did. Nice
Thanks 👍
You both did a good job. I'm never going to buy a Honda again myself (Odyssey and Civic), for the cost you would expect them to have better paint jobs. Even my GMC has thicker paint. Never thought of using that paint. Thanks for the great idea and video.
Thanks so much! Appreciate it!
Nice job! I did that to my pickup truck about 15 years ago. I used regular Rust-Oleum and a foam roller. Neighbors were peeking out their windows looking at me as though I had lost my mind. Well the paints still on there but not quite as shiny and it does keep rustin check. Definitely outlasted the factory paint.
You might just be ready for a fresh coat, Jim Bob!
@@thejoyoffixing Yeah, I just might give it a recoat.
Just might ain’t closin’ any deals! Gotta do it, buddy!
Just did the rear doors on my white 95 suburban. Used Rustoleum clean metal primer and oil enamel paint, both white. Going to do a second coat but so far its amazing looking. Have some bad rust on rockers and door bottoms which i havent figured out what to about do yet. Have a HF 220 mig welder but never tried because i dont have 220 outlet. Great advice, thanks.
Good luck with the rust!
Honestly some aerosol cans of the two-part 2K clear coat would make that thing look really really nice.
Yes you're going to have orange peel from the rolling and the brush work, but at the end of the day it's not a big deal if you are not personally worried about it. Nice work overall and a major improvement from its previous state.
Nobody will care about that orange-peel while you doing sixty down the road!
@@carlinshowalter1806 I agree. Personally I don't care too much. I just know with some clear coat on top of that paint, it would shine nicely!
Yeah monochrome and stopping rust was the goal. It turned out great though.
Nice work! It makes me happy to see the younger folks such as yourselves saving $$ and looking good doing it. I have brush painted 2 Jeeps in the past, a 1952 M38 and a 1963 CJ5. I used real military surplus olive drab paint that I was able to source at Twin Cities Surplus in Reno, Nv. It was strange paint. I tried every type of thinner available, none of which worked. So it got brushed on just as it came from the can. I did use all brushes, no rollers. Cheap brushes, as they were toast afterwards. The stuff self leveled really well, was tough as nails, and if you every scraped it up off roading, easy touch up. Most people seeing it had no clue. The first one I did was in 1998 (or 99), the second one was in 2003. Pretty sure that paint is no longer available, so it's good to know about this product. I currently have a 73 Jeep project slowly getting done, and it will be getting the Rustoleum Farm and Implement treatment. THX!
No problem! Thanks for shout story. Loved it!
Awesome paint job ! 🤗👍💖🇺🇸🐕
Thank you! Cheers!
I painted my first race car with tractor paint. Didn't realize it took a longer time to completely dry. Raced on a dusty dirt track... the car was a mess by the night was over, lol. Anyway, your van turned out great.
Thank you
The Massey Ferguson gray from the same line of paint is a BEAUTIFUL color
I have an ollllllld gray Ferguson Tractor and it is truly a beautiful color. I've used the gray from this product line and honestly it was my first choice to paint this van. However, it was a blue van and I figured if I wasn't doing primer it would be better more even coverage and final product sticking with a blue.
But, seriously, that Massey-Ferguson grey is by far the best overall looking color in the product line. Agreed 100%
@@thejoyoffixing I roller brushed my 07 Croen Victoria Police Interceptor that has really bad chipping and peeling paint. I did the exact same as you did. 4 coats with wet sands in between and topped off with a clear coat and buff/wax and it was gorgeous
First thing I will say is thank you for your perspective of helping people that may not have had a father figure or someone else in their life to help them. This is so commendable!
I am getting ready to do this same thing with an old jeep using the same paint (but gloss black) and am really looking forward to it. I will probably use a brush though to try and get it as smooth as possible and then sand between coats. This looks fantastic for a quick paint job!
Thanks so much.
And, yeah, it’s all about the kids learning to solve problems and learn to do things with their hands.
My dream would be that this channel could get so big that I could afford to open a small part-time shop that mentored young adults that weren’t going to college and didn’t have any trade skills or even basic skills.
Until then… I’ll post stuff here. Ha
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Great to meet you.
I to painted my old YJ in John deer green rustoleum. I even used a roller. It looked good from 20 foot and that paint hardened like a candy shell.
THIS GUY UNDERSTANDS! Thanks buddy!
Great job. Getting a full paint job done at a shop these days is nearly impossible in that it will cost more than the vehicle is worth. We used to be able to get a car painted for a grand plus or minus a few hundred, now body shops are essentially collision repair shops.
100% correct on all counts.
Most shops around me dont want to touch a vehicle unless it's a insurance job.cheapest I came across who was willing to do it was $8,000 for a 99 TJ.No rust no dents.
I had an old full sized station wagon. When I was a kid no rust holes but total surface rust. So I had an old gallon of black tractor paint. So I took a paint roller and painted the entire car with the
Black paint and a roller while parked in the driveway. Because of the roller the car had a slight texture over the surface rust. From a few feet away you had a hard time noticing the texture. My buddies couldn't believe how good it looked.
That’s a success story right there!
I've watched a couple of these "paint your car" videos now and I've gotta say, try a sprayer. I did the floor pans on my daughters car and used that paint on the underside to protect the steel. Out of a sprayer you'll get nearly a professional level look, no orange peel anyway. A proper spray gun will kick the job up about 10 notches.
Harbor Freight purple sprayer is $15 and works
@@bedlamite42 I used a professional level devilbiss primer gun I borrowed from work and it worked beautifully.
It’s all trade offs.
If I were not old and disabled, I would paint my car! It’s not in as bad a shape as yours but as a 2003, it’s beginning to look like it needs refreshing. With only 73,000 miles, it still has a lot of miles left in it. I hope! Thanks for the video. The car looks great! 😊
Thanks so much. I’m disabled too but just a tiny section at a time feels good to do. Even if it hurts.
Well done!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you
There are also products you can add to the paint that will help with it laying down smooth, like flowtrol. (HD, Amazon, any paint store.) It extends dry time and helps smooth out the paint texture. Glad you taped it off before painting- it might even be a good idea to do that before sanding...
Flow trip is a great product for sure!