Rocket Man's 2008 Bagged CC Silverado Build AKA "THE MACHINE"

[pwtr02ss]

The paint came out pretty good, a couple fine dust specs blew onto them but I’m happy. Now the hard part- not touching them until tomorrow. I so want to go rivet them on lol. View attachment 347023View attachment 347024

Little nibbing and some polish and you'll be perfect! Great job

 

[Rocket Man]

Ehh. So much for waiting. Riveting done. Cerakote done on the plastic, ready for install tomorrow. I bought new LED license plate lights to go along with everything.

 

[Rocket Man]

It’s all done- bumper and maintainer. I like it. Paint came out great, trim looks awesome, wiring is clean. This will be so much easier this winter.

 

[Rocket Man]

Money shot. Now I need to remove the cowl and hood trim and remove the white specks of wax that spun off the buffer and landed there months ago. I have tried everything and the only thing that takes them off is scotchbright. I want to Cerakote them so hopefully they’re protected. The plastic on the rear bumper had the same specs and it looks awesome now after I used that process. The stupid specks sorta bonded themselves to the plastic.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Money shot. Now I need to remove the cowl and hood trim and remove the white specks of wax that spun off the buffer and landed there months ago. I have tried everything and the only thing that takes them off is scotchbright. I want to Cerakote them so hopefully they’re protected. The plastic on the rear bumper had the same specs and it looks awesome now after I used that process. The stupid specks sorta bonded themselves to the plastic.View attachment 347244View attachment 347245View attachment 347246

Have you tried a stiff brush? The type that you'd buy in HF in a package of 3--comes with nylon, brass and steel. The nylon brush might be stiff enough to get it off.

 

[Rocket Man]

Have you tried a stiff brush? The type that you'd buy in HF in a package of 3--comes with nylon, brass and steel. The nylon brush might be stiff enough to get it off.

I don’t think it would work, I have to scrub quite a bit with the scotchbrite in order to get it off. Alcohol doesn’t touch it but I just tried mineral spirits and it removes some so it cuts down on the scotchbrite time. The stuff is stubborn. Weird thing is, as long as a fluid is on it- alcohol, water, mineral spirits etc it’s invisible but as soon as it dries bam they’re back.

 

[Tonyrodz]

I don’t think it would work, I have to scrub quite a bit with the scotchbrite in order to get it off. Alcohol doesn’t touch it but I just tried mineral spirits and it removes some so it cuts down on the scotchbrite time. The stuff is stubborn. Weird thing is, as long as a fluid is on it- alcohol, water, mineral spirits etc it’s invisible but as soon as it dries bam they’re back.

Won't Scotch brite scratch the he l l out of it?

 

[Rocket Man]

Won't Scotch brite scratch the he l l out of it?

No. It just dulls it. I used it on the rear bumper pieces before I used the Cerakote on them. Here’s a hood piece after scotchbrite and the bumper part after scotchbrite and Cerakote.

 

[Tonyrodz]

No. It just dulls it. I used it on the rear bumper pieces before I used the Cerakote on them. Here’s a hood piece after scotchbrite and the bumper part after scotchbrite and Cerakote. View attachment 347256View attachment 347255

Ok, that makes sense. There's different scotch brite pads--green, red, white etc. I've never used a fine scotch brite, I usually use red or green which are pretty course.

 

[Rocket Man]

I’m using the red. They came out great.