Marq,

Did you also used 1 can of 333 fluid?
I know you used mineral spirits,
in that case, how much bottles of spirits did you used to thin the paint?

What do you mean DartGT?
My english is not very well, I don't get the 6/8 method translated

Just thin the paint in the paint holdster,
long enough until you can stir the stick without a large amount of force?

Just a little bit thicker as water ?

Stir the paint after adding a little thinner, then lift the stir stick up out of the paint, the paint will run off the end as soon as you lift it up and as the paint runs off the stir stick it will be in a solid stream but after a couple of seconds or so it will go from a stream to drips, I add thinner until the time it goes from a stream to drip is me counting from 1 to 6 or 8.
Hope that helps.

Marq,

The second roll, for popping the bubbels.
Did you roll this roller in the oppositie direction of the paint you just rolled with the first roller?
Or follow-up the same direction?

I read a lot of the posts and have to agree the the best way to determine the thinning of the paint and the rolling technique is to try it yourself. It is sort of something you get a feel for. My advice is to just go ahead and try it- better to thin than too thick...
Things I learned:
1) If it doesn't run on the vertical surfaces it is too thick
2) Better to apply it to thin than too thick
3) If it runs, then that's good and go over it again in a few minutes with a roller with less paint to pick up all the runs
4) When done with the paint session, go over the entire car again with the nearly dry roller to take out any runs- especially the places where the runs accumulate such as the door creases on the vertical surfaces
5) If you get any runs, then it is much easier to roll them out while the paint is wet than the sand them off when the paint dries
6) consistency of nonfat milk worked for me
7) best bet is to have thin paint, but very little on the roller (roll it hard on the tray 6-8 times until no more paint squeezes off) before applying to the car
8) use a new roller and foam brush for the edges with each
application
9) It takes me 60-75 minutes to roll my car each time, and I have to add a bit of mineral spirits to my tray every 15 minutes since it evaporates and gets to thick

Hope this helps!
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Great post Marc. I haven't seen a better condensed version of how to do it in the whole 3 part thread. Did my Jeep over a year ago in Rusto Canvas White and couldn't be more happy.

Hey guys, I'm a long time reader of the thread and plannin on rollin my '74 Charger. And I was wondering if a primer (Rustoleum Primer) would be recomended considering I'll be replacing half of both quarter pannels, rockers, and a small patch on front fender. I'm going with a dark gloss forest green and wasn't sure how well it would cover without having a solid base coat of something.

Keep up this awesome thread guys!!

Not sure about a dark color like green. For white painted over my dark blue original paint, the primer makes a big difference (for rustoleum). The few places that I sanded through the primer take many coats of thinned white gloss to cover (6-10 coats) any blue that shows through.. It's a pain to keep painting the whole car again since a few spots have blue color fading through, but the benefit is that the whole car gets smoother and glossier with each coat. This is after 2 coats of primer and then 2 coats of glossy white rusoleum.
Good Luck!




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Ya thats what I was figuring too with the dark green, and I suppose since the car is already green it wouldn't be neccessary. Is the primer white?

Wow thats looking good! And thats only 2 coats!?
I'm keepin my fingers crossed that I have good luck with it ..looks like you are! haha Keep up the good work and thanks!

It's cold here in NY and right now is the only time I'm gonna have to salvage my cars exterior till God knows when. So I wanted to know what process should I take when painting in cold weather like this? I have a garage but it's not heated.

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Is the primer white?

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Yes- I used White Rustoleum Clean Metal Primer



Good Luck!

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This is the same stuff I used, too.

Alrighty thanks,

And now that I think of it, looking a ljohnson's post about cold weather, is there anything that has to be done different in cold weather? Because I'm planning on painting this winter too, and considering I live in northern MN we woke up to a brisk -22F this morning. haha

So I have to wait a week for the paint to dry? What's the shortest time I'd have to wait in cold weather?

I think I'm gonna have to walk away from this one till the weather warms up. I was planning on using my parents garage while they where out of town since they're completely against me trying anything like this.