Jsut picked up a panhard bar. Was used for one day so I got a good price.
Looking to paint it. Most likely black to match the rest.
Whats the best way to go about this? Just grab a can of spray paint and have at it?

 

Just clean it up with something to remove any grease or oil and spray anyway would be my advice. You could always look into getting it powdercoated but that might be expensive, I don't know.

 

I was thinking of powdercoating. My cousin has a shop, my valve covers were done for free

But this is in a less seen area, so I was thinking of the quickest way.

I think I mught just send it to his shop. Theres no hurry to get it on. Waiting until I order some LCA's. Which should be in a month or so.

 

Don't paint it, it will take a beating and start to chip. Powdercoating is the only real solution on suspension parts as they get tons of road grime

 

Powdercoating is definitely the best way to get some color on the part and it holds up under daily driving conditions.

For the most part painting is a pain in the @$$ but if you're masochistic: to do it properly you can use a good epoxy type paint and it will hold up reasonably well. Prepping the part is important - you need to scuff it with red Scotchbrite and then wipe it down with a prep solvent to make sure there's no grease or contaminants on the surface. You also need to use a good self-etching primer prior to spraying the color - essentially the primer sticks to the metal and paint sticks to the primer.

This is not a good time of year to paint anything unless you know someone with a paint booth - it's too cold to do it outside because most paints need to be sprayed at temps over 75 degrees. If you do it in your garage you'll have to heat the area and hang up plastic sheeting to keep the overspray contained. The overspray is flammable so you shouldn't use anything with an open flame like kerosene heaters, wood stoves, etc.

In other words: grab a sixer and head to your cousins shop .

 

Lol, thanks guys. I think he hit the nail on the head here!