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As far as painting the wheel wells in the tub and fenders goes, I believe you should plan on painting them with the body color while you paint everything. Use the same primer and topcoat like the rest. This way you have a good layer of the proper color paint everywhere to protect the sheet metal from rusting. You can always add a sound deadening coating later, if you choose to go that route.
I have sprayed quality rubberized undercoating in the wheel wells of most every vehicle I have owned over the years, except for the newer vehicles that have a black plastic liners in the wheel wells. I do this for rust prevention and sound deadening, and I like semi gloss black paint on everything that is not body colored. For instance, if I replace shocks on a car I own, I will paint them semi gloss black, if they aren’t already, before I install them. The flat black color of the rubberized undercoating works well with my dislike of any colors under the vehicle. No red, yellow, or white paint anywhere on the undercarriage on my cars…that’s just the way I like it. I probably sprayed rubberized undercoating in the wheel wells on my 1986 CJ-7 when it was new, but I can’t remember for sure. I was spending a lot of time on logging roads in and around Port Angeles back then, so it would make sense to undercoat the wheel wells to help protect them from rock chips, and sound deadening. You can paint rubberized undercoating with the same top coat if you like. A lot of new cars come with undercoating under the top coat, down low on the rockers and such.
There are many spray on or roll on bed liner materials that could be applied to do the same thing that rubberized undercoating will do, so you have many choices.
When I paint my tub & the rest of the sheet metal parts, I will use the same method and products on everything, so it will all be Sebring Red when finished and assembled. I will probably apply rubberized undercoating in all four wheel wells to protect the paint from chipping when a rock gets thrown, and for sound deadening as well. I’m pretty sure it will be a hard decision to cover up the new red paint, but I plan on driving and wheeling my Jeep after the repaint, so sound deadening will just make sense to me. If I were planning on a weekend only, never drive in the rain, show car type of Jeep, I would not apply the rubberized undercoating, but that is not the case for my 1985 CJ-7.
I’m going to post a picture of my 1986 CJ-7 sitting on the wash rack at AIRSTA Port Angeles in 1987. It’s an old picture and I’m not sure if you would be able to see red paint in the wheel wells or not, but to me it looks like they are black, and that is the look I like on a Jeep that will be driven and wheeled on a regular basis.
As far as painting the wheel wells in the tub and fenders goes, I believe you should plan on painting them with the body color while you paint everything. Use the same primer and topcoat like the rest. This way you have a good layer of the proper color paint everywhere to protect the sheet metal from rusting. You can always add a sound deadening coating later, if you choose to go that route.
I have sprayed quality rubberized undercoating in the wheel wells of most every vehicle I have owned over the years, except for the newer vehicles that have a black plastic liners in the wheel wells. I do this for rust prevention and sound deadening, and I like semi gloss black paint on everything that is not body colored. For instance, if I replace shocks on a car I own, I will paint them semi gloss black, if they aren’t already, before I install them. The flat black color of the rubberized undercoating works well with my dislike of any colors under the vehicle. No red, yellow, or white paint anywhere on the undercarriage on my cars…that’s just the way I like it. I probably sprayed rubberized undercoating in the wheel wells on my 1986 CJ-7 when it was new, but I can’t remember for sure. I was spending a lot of time on logging roads in and around Port Angeles back then, so it would make sense to undercoat the wheel wells to help protect them from rock chips, and sound deadening. You can paint rubberized undercoating with the same top coat if you like. A lot of new cars come with undercoating under the top coat, down low on the rockers and such.
There are many spray on or roll on bed liner materials that could be applied to do the same thing that rubberized undercoating will do, so you have many choices.
When I paint my tub & the rest of the sheet metal parts, I will use the same method and products on everything, so it will all be Sebring Red when finished and assembled. I will probably apply rubberized undercoating in all four wheel wells to protect the paint from chipping when a rock gets thrown, and for sound deadening as well. I’m pretty sure it will be a hard decision to cover up the new red paint, but I plan on driving and wheeling my Jeep after the repaint, so sound deadening will just make sense to me. If I were planning on a weekend only, never drive in the rain, show car type of Jeep, I would not apply the rubberized undercoating, but that is not the case for my 1985 CJ-7.
I’m going to post a picture of my 1986 CJ-7 sitting on the wash rack at AIRSTA Port Angeles in 1987. It’s an old picture and I’m not sure if you would be able to see red paint in the wheel wells or not, but to me it looks like they are black, and that is the look I like on a Jeep that will be driven and wheeled on a regular basis.
