Motor Painting Help

[NOAHSARK]

My brothers I need some advice on painting my motor, the previous owner must of liked the two tone look because the Johnson is half white half black why he did that I have no clue, maybe he really wanted a Merc. Thanks in advance

[oldbluesplayer]

Noah - do you have any bare metal showing, which would need priming, or are you just painting over existing paint ?

If bare metal, you will need to clean off any corrosion - try a scotch brite pad, then prime with zinc chromate, then paint.

If just repainting over the old paint, use the scotchbrite pad to roughen and clean the surface, and you should be able to paint right over it, without priming.

I did my motor's lower end this fall, scotchbrite, prime, paint, looks like new.

Bill

[ScottM]

What oldbluesplayer said. The previous owner of my boat painted the lower unit with bottom paint and doing what Bill outlines above worked like a charm.

[warthog5]

I would paint it with PPG Concept. It's a single stage Uthane.

If your planning on spray bomb can's it will never look good. Yes it will be colored, but the thinner's in a spry bomb kick off to fast and will not have a smooth glossy finish.

You decide what you want it to look like.