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[rob love]

The complete body in semi OD will be just around a gallon, unless you do multi coats. Most of the mutts I bought were sprayed or brushed in the (ugly) flat green on the inside. Expect to use about a gallon of the IRR flat green, and the other colors (black and OD) will be under a quart each.

Personally, I would do the semi gloss underneath, then undercoat the underneath including inside the wheel wells as was originally done with the Ziebart. Between the sandblasting effect of the wheels and the operators using the high temp steam jennies on the trucks, not a lot of the ziebart remained in the wheel wells.

Sandblasting will get into areas that the paint gun will not. Use extra effort trying to get paint underneath the strengthening lips on the top edges of the body.

[Wpns 421]

Originally Posted by rob love

The complete body in semi OD will be just around a gallon, unless you do multi coats. Most of the Iltis I bought were sprayed or brushed in the (ugly) flat green on the inside. Expect to use about a gallon of the IRR flat green, and the other colors (black and OD) will be under a quart each.

Personally, I would do the semi gloss underneath, then undercoat the underneath including inside the wheel wells as was originally done with the Ziebart. Between the sandblasting effect of the wheels and the operators using the high temp steam jennies on the trucks, not a lot of the ziebart remained in the wheel wells.

Sandblasting will get into areas that the paint gun will not. Use extra effort trying to get paint underneath the strengthening lips on the top edges of the body.

The Ziebart is an expensive undercoating, what we use with are vehicles is an undercoating we purchase at Canadian Tire used to ba called Hippo Guard, it is easy to apply can be painted and is very tough. The cost is about $60 to $70 for a gallon. You apply the product with a rockguard gun. To do the underdide of an MLVW or M135 take about 1 hour. We have done 8 to 10 vehicles and no problems. Gilles