i wasn't going to paint my shocks just the brackets but i hate the yellow paint so i went with the poor mans bilstein color only to find out my yellow spray can was so old it dried up so i used rustoleum hammered silver on the bottom and ford blue on the tops. it looks good different but i don't know if i like the blue top maybe ill change the tops any suggestions?


the pics of the brackets before sand blasting primer and paint. they actually dont look bad but the really were, the powder coat was peeled off and only the edges were holding with mud weeds and dirt stuck between the paint and bare metal

one shock sanded primered and painted


hammered rust paint man i love this stuff
drying in the 95 degree heat here in jersey, humidity 800% lol



finally finished everything dry and bolted back up, i like it but i dont know about the blue, maybe if i had a yellow bottom i would like it better.

 

also sanded, primed and painted the axle flat black, did anyone else ever notice how easy the paint comes off the axles? i was basically peeling off sections of it, weird. also is it normal for the bottom brackets to be bent out like in this pic, because i was about to put them in the press and straighten them out

 

the paint adds like 10 whp, good choice.

 

yea feels more like twenty! but after painting the front last night i hate the blue upper color so im painting the tops bright red. fronts are done and back on and it looks real good now. it matches the red fx4 sticker real good so ill take the backs off tomorrow and paint the tops red to match. ill post some pics also

 

My brackets are bent the same as yours

 

ok thanks sgnaz, i thought something happened but couldnt figure out what i could have done to bend them