restoring question

I have a question for the restore people, when you take parts off and clean and paint, how do you keep the wrenches from marring the bolts that are already painted??? some things need to be painted and then put back on. working on a U right now, won't be a show tractor but would for it to look nice. thanks for a great forum and Merry Christmas to all.
 
When I put my UB back together I used a Cresent wrench with tape on it on as many bolts as possible. Any paint that got nicked up I just used a paint brush and touch up paint on. No matter how careful you are you will need to touch things up. Good luck, and post pictures when your done.
 
(quoted from post at 04:15:10 12/16/14) I have a question for the restore people, when you take parts off and clean and paint, how do you keep the wrenches from marring the bolts that are already painted??? some things need to be painted and then put back on. working on a U right now, won't be a show tractor but would for it to look nice. thanks for a great forum and Merry Christmas to all.

I am restoring one right now, I use a snap-on open end wrench or good 6pt socket (if it needs to be torqued). My snap ons fit very well. Any quality wrench or socket should.

I did mar some, so I had my color made up in a spray can and have used it to touch up. Can hardly tell, but probably wouldn't be perfect enough for a show tractor however.
 
As said touch up and be careful as possible, or use new bolts, on all my hood bolts and open station bolts for floor pans etc, On my g1355 I bought new chrome bolts and washers just to make it look nice, but my front lug nuts I touched up, rear ones I bought new.
 
I usually like to sand blast and powder coat the bolts and nuts. The powder coating is usually not as brittle as paint and won't chip off as easily. I also use a 6 point socket where possible to minimize marring. However, even with all this, it's still likely that some touch up will be required.
 
I can't add much to what's already been said, except to say that most restorations and paint jobs far exceed anything that the factory ever did. With that said, the easiest way to avoid scratched bolt heads is to do it the way the factory did---bolt it together first, then paint it! :D
 
I replace all mine with stainless steel and put ss flat washer behind bolt so not to marr finish on panels.
 

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