My truck has what appears to be vinyl pinstripes running down the sides.

How can I remove that? Also I plan on painting it afterwards.

Thanks
Chris

'86 F350

 

I have had good luck using an electric hair blow dryer. Use high heat and move the blower back and forth, keep picking at a corner until you can lift it up. Some of the sticky stuff is left behind, but paint thinner on a rag cleans that up. ...Terry

 

My 91 F150 had a massive amount of pinstriping on it, it is an Enforcer with all the lettering and all. I went to my Allied Dist. parts house and they sold me a body shop tool for the job. It was CHEAP. All it is, basically, is a giant eraser, round, with a mandrel in the middle. You hook it up to your drill and you simply "erase" the pin stripes. I was concerned about burning the paint underneath and no, it didn't even mar the surface. I thought that this was one of the neatest devices I've ever used for pulling off pinstripes. It is FAST and easy. I did both sides of the truck in less than an hour. Check around your parts supply houses that sell autobody paint and stuff and you should be able to find it.

Cheers!

Mike

 

ive worked in a sign shopfor years so im used to vinyl. what i would do is like overkill-f1 said get a hair dryer (heat gun, same thing) and go to one of the ends of the pinstripes. if its old then itll probably chip off and might not leave the glue residue on it. laqucer thinner or better yet goo gone will get that glue off if there is any

 

yep them little eraser things are slick. You look at it and think this will never work, but takes pinstripes right off. Much better then when you have an old pinstripe to remove, so you heat it up with a heat gun and get it started, get and inch or so run, and it breaks and this keeps going on over and over again, get the thing started and then it breaks again. You have the luxury since you are painting it of sanding off the pinstripe, but best if you get off most of the stripe so you aren't creating an edge where the pinstripe was.