OK, so my chromed front bumper is starting to show a decent amount of rust from this winter. I want to remove it, sand blast it and paint it black. Would that work? I have never tried to blast chrome before, and I know I can't paint over it.

Or would it be easier to just buy a bare or painted bumper?

 

The only way i know to remove chrome is to leave in one of the front rows of a parking lot of a grocery store. Within a few days there will be so many nicks and door marks the chrome will just fall of.

Seriously, you can sand blast it off. Depending on the quality of chrome, it will go fast or slow. IF its triple striked chrome, that is Copper, Nickel, Chrome, the Chrome and Nickel will come off with sand blast, but the Copper will take sanding or wire brushing, we usually paint over the copper. Another trick we have found, is if you can crack the chrome, chip some away, it will speed up the sand blast process. It lets the sand penetrate under the chrome.

The above was pulled from another site, but is 100% accurate <-- and it made me laugh!

 

I need to refinish my brush guard and rack.

I am considering using Grizzly Grip.

http://www.grizzlygrip.com/

 

I may have to look into that, I was going to use rattle-can textured/hammertone paint. I am also gonna be doing the brushguard.

 

I'd get the Aliphatic polyurethane stuff in white since it doesn't turn yellow over time and do my roof...that'd be sweet.

 

Look up flip flop paint or illusion paint

 

Is that the paint you'd see in the 80's and 90's all the ricers were using? That would change color depending on the angle you were looking?

 

Yup haha, or you could paint it yellow! I heard that was a fad that happened a little before my time :P

 

I thought of painting my whole rover yellow, but am afraid I'd be accused of trying to make a poser Camel Trophy Edition