1990 Mitsubishi L200 1uzfe Twin Turbo conversion

[pattycake]

I have just taken ownership of this beast from fellow reader Mike D, this is such a fun truck to drive and I cant wait to show it later on in the year, for the mean time I will be trying to get rid of all the little rust spots and hopefully repainting and stickering. its already had a bench seat fitted and a curse word hot sound system

the previous thread is retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=112219

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my first port of call was to tackle the tail gate
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I managed to get most of the rust of and then just put some paint on to protect while I went and bought some good paint that matched

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[Kev]

Looking at the old thread you posted that looks the dogs! Hope you get these pictures up and running

[joem83]

Love this thing

[pattycake]

ive managed to get down to the paint shop and went on a bit of a spending spree, i decided to go back to the white and also paint the Mitsubishi logo red, i also took the read latches and blasted them at work ready for paint, they look brand new now

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[pattycake]

[crazymonkey]

this is one of my favourite trucks ever so glad to see it being treated

[rodney]

awsome truck

[chriscooke]

Love this, Very Cool!!

[loudandproud205]

I tried to get the money sorted last time it came up for sale I like it alot.

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a great big hairy and oily thumbs up from me

[faker]

That's soo kool

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so we all agreed then...this is cool?

[pattycake]

i managed to get down to my uncles garage today and started to paint the tail gate, i spent a good 4 hours just on the prep work but hopefully it paid off.





while taking the paint back the wire decided to stick in my arm a little :/



i tried my hand at spraying for the first time in my life and in my opinion didn't do to bad, i just need to add a few more top coats then it should be ready for the red of the logo

[pattycake]

so i finally got round to masking and painting the logo on the back and i can say what a pain in the it was, it must have taken two hours just to mask. i then ran into some problems when taking the tape of i found it had seeped through the paper and masking slightly and ruined the finish so no i think i may just have to re do the whole thing :/





safety first haha





the spray gun ended up turning its self up so it over sprayed loads and i ended up with some runs as well :/



as the picture shows it went tits up, not good !!!!

[duncanmartin]

Great truck. Can you get away with paint stripping the red that has leaked and then masking the red and adding another coat of white?

[rodney]

mate thats easily fixed , use some 1500 wet paper to rub the runs and the over spray away , then compound it back to a shine

[luckygti]

Do like this truck, I'm a sucker for a pick-up Shame about the slight spraying mishap, I don't have any advice, hopefully someone will be along shortly to offer some advice. I was wondering whether that frog tape stuff would be any good?

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more pics!!!!!

[joem83]

Shame about the paint, can you not colour sand & buff it?

[agentprawn]

that's exactly the kind of thing that would happen to me .. i feel your pain