How-to Paint Tractors & Trucks

Whether you're restoring a John Deere or an old Chevy pickup truck, they both need fresh paint. How To Paint Tractors & Trucksexplains the various types of paints available for tractors and trucks, from brush-on enamel to the latest two-stage urethane. Ten chapters include information on: Choosing and using a spray gun, how to set up a temporary booth with adequate air movement, and the importance of overlapping each pass with the spray gun. The paint job itself stats with good metal preparation, followed by the application of filler and then the first coats of primer. All the steps, from bare metal to finish paint, are explained, and the illustrated in the Shop Sequences.How To Paint Tractors & Trucksincludes two complete, step-by-step paint jobs that illustrate every task necessary to do a good paint job. How to Paint Tractors & Truckscan be used any first-time or non-professional painter to obtain professional results with any of the tractor of automotive paints available today.

Best known for mototcycle titles like How to Build a Chopper and How to Build a Cheap Chopper, how-to-author Tim Remus is also the author of custom painting books like Advanced Airbrush Art and fabrication titles like Ultimate Sheet Metel Fabrication. Today the former auto mechanic runs a small publishing company, Wolfgang Publications, located in Stillwater, Minnesota. Some of his personal projects include a recently finished 250-tire Softail and an old Henry J hot rod he says may never be finished.