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Has anybody just tried a little brush and the paint right out of the gallon from rapco? may try that on a couple bolts/washers, see if it works. If all goes as planned will do the brown and black this weekend.

Update: on bolt painting. used all new bolts, the stirofoam that comes in the gallon boxes from rapco worked great for sticking rows of bolts in. Lghtly primed and painted. Let dry for a couple days, and had none chip off so far. Of course no impact used and were careful to not let bolt turn...

Pretty cool info on that site about lots of things from that time period

Great question. M813RC posted how to convert an Army truck number to a Marine truck number. He may know about the numbers on the doors. I would like to know also as ill be ready to stencil mine in the next few days

Ha Ha, I dont think any of them sound great. To think it was the only choice I had while i was in. It was okinawa or Cuba and i thought wow, the carribean...so picked Cuba. Other buddys went to okinawa and got to see the Phillipines and korea...oh well, was great swimming and the beer was cold.

Post some pics when you can. nopics

We painted all ours with a brush, but spray sure looks nice, suit yourself i think. as far as the bumper markings, there is nobody with the nerve to tell you, you cant put your fathers battlion and regiment numbers anywhere you want on that truck. Just my opinion of course. Its YOUR truck...

cool while you guys were floating all around in 1983 I was assigned to Marine Ground defense force, Gitmo bay. Of course that was before it was popular..

F18- lots of Army trucks get seconded to the Marines (a few without their knowledge, as I recall, but that is another story!). They were repainted and assigned a 6-digit number. Cheers Oh i know too well, i seem to recall a certain water bull we "aquired" and painted numbers on it..I bet...

Welcome from Maryland.

Oh wow, I'm sorry to hear that. He would be super proud of you and that truck, I am sure.

Thanks for that post and answers, I have an "Army" duece thats about to be adopted by the Marine Corps!!!!! :D No offense Army guys!! LOL I was in 1982-1986 and dont remember ever seeing unit markings, seemed like we swapped trucks with units, moved stuff around, borrowed stuff..Only pics I...

Good grief thats one heck of a process he uses. Got to keep in mind this is a 1970 duece and half. I doubt if any branch of the service used a galvanic process to plate their bolts when they went to repaint it. But still interesting idea. did just what most on here said, glassbeaded, or used...

Ha Ha, nope don't live "in" OC..rather near OC..That would raise some eye brows, working on a duece and half on a side street in OC...I can see it now, asking the neighbors to move thier cars so you could paint it on the street.

[thumbzup] We did the same thing, painted all our trucks with brushs. This paint job is not ment to be "show" quality, but somewhere between that and a motor pool job, minus the paint brushes. We've sanded the whole bed, cleaned up any rust spots, none through on the bed, just paint gone in...

Your right I think, a light coat would not chip as easy. None of these are critical fasteners, so super tight is not required. Gonna work on painting the cab this weekend, so will put some through cardboard and try it, good use for left over paint in the gun as well. Thanks for ideas.

awesome adventure for you and your son.

Anybody have any ideas on best way to paint bolts/other fasteners? We've started painting our M35 and was thinking of different ways to paint the bolts. Many items were removed and painted off the truck, which means fasteners were not painted, could always put through holes in a box or hang up...

Read through most of the notes here, and thought I'd add my 2 cents worth. If I read this right, you replaced the distributor with an electronic one?? And that was before this "no-start" problem? it was for a slugish and performance problem. I saw a few guys mentioned a bad coil, when it heats...