Thinking of painting my motor. It's a 2006 PD 36 with almost 90 hours on it. Has the normal wear and tear, grease, and dirt etc. as most motors do. Overall it would be cleaner than most. I was thinking of painting it one color like OD Tan to dull it out. I was thinking of having my painter who has an airless paint it for me. Just wanted to be sure of the steps I need to take to prep it, what not to paint, etc. Would you use a primer coat? I don't want to half ass it, but do it right. Thanks in advance.

just clean it good.

Don, just clean it real good and rattle can it.

Let me know when you go to sell this in a month or two. I might have a buyer!

just get a camo motor cover for now and then when you get ready to sell it give it a camo job so it looks new

As others said clean it good. Put tape on anything you don't want it on. I taped up a few places like the oil cooler, tach,and throttle. Then paint it up. Unless someone is doing it for free, I wouldn't pay to have it done. It's very easy. I did mine because I had the boat paint in a can and an airless sprayer from harbor Freight. Like River said, rattle can it.

i did mine with rattle cans......the block is now camo too.

med, looks good. yea, i have decided to rattle can it. ordered the reelfoot stencils yesterday and have all the colors ready to go to match my hull. i will trick it out..

Rattle canned mine flat black with regular bbq pit paint its holding up pretty good except the muffler but that was expected. Only problem was I used some green painters tape on the big sticker above the flywheel and when I peeled it off half the sticker came off with it. keep in mine lawnmower stores will laugh at you if you try buy a new sticker for it. lol

med that looks AWESOME!!!

At the bottom there are some tips for the motor:

http://www.allmudmotors.com/blogs/how-t ... encil-tips

Thats a good lookin paint job! What brand of paint and colors?