How To: Ford Oval Color Change

[Casper98]

Original Poster: Casper98

Difficulty: 4 out of 10

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Tired of your stock looking Ford Oval? Want something different this How to will show you how to change the color of your hard Plastic Ford Ovals. How to tell witch ones you have, if you can get a fingernail between the chrome outer ring and the Blue part this will work for you. If not then you should follow this

http://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=10026&highlight=red+ford+emblem


Lets get started shall we!

Materials needed

· Emblem
· Heat source (hair dryer works best)
· Little Screwdriver
· Tape
· Sand Paper
· Paint
· 3M Emblem Adhesive (to glue back together)

Part Number of the Emblem you need

First off Heat up the Emblem for 2-3 minutes with the hair dryer.

Next be careful not to burn yourself on the emblem it will be hot. Now comes the fun part separating the two pices. Grab your little screwdriver and start to pry up on one side. I found that if you work your way into the little grove it separates very easily.

When you get to this point STOP!! Re-heat the emblem and work the screwdriver around the emblem to separate the pieces. If heated correctly it should come apart like this.

Now your ready to start sanding the Blue paint off. Don’t worry about the lettering because it is set into the emblem.

Once you get all of the blue paint off it will look a little milky, don’t worry when you paint it it will not show.

Now you can tape off the front side of the emblem and start the paint process.

I painted mine red to match my truck, but any color should look better than the blue. I did 4 coats of paint to get good coverage.

Once the paint dries your ready to re-assemble, I used 3M Emblem adhesive on this one, but Superglue should hold just fine. Once its back together your ready to install on your truck.

Here is a comparison of original on the bottom and modded on top.

What it looks like installed on the truck.

 

[mjonesjr]

Looks good. When I get a chance, I will submit it for the library. Who knows, it might make it into the magazine.

 

[Ranger44]

Hmmm....that's nifty!

 

[Jay FX4]

That's actually pretty cool. I might try this one day. I see the pic with the bag with the part # on it - how do you go about obtaining this? I wouldn't want to try it with the emblem that's already on the truck. And has anyone done anything to the fender emblems?

 

[Casper98]

I got the emblem from Ford, any older Ranger emblem should work

 

[RobbieD]

That's a neat trick, and you did a great writeup on it. Good job!

 

[ranger_mclaren]

What grit sandpaper did you use? and what did you use to attach to truck?

 

[Jay FX4]

I would use double-stick 3M tape found at auto parts stores.

 

[BlackBII]

That is pretty neat!

Although rather sacrelige in my book...

But I bleed blue.

 

[Casper98]

I used 120 Grit sand paper, and 3M double sided tape to re attach it to my truck

 

[kcm1582]

That's a pretty nice trick. Adds a nice custom touch.

 

[ranger_mclaren]

I used 120 Grit sand paper, and 3M double sided tape to re attach it to my truck

Thanks dude

 

[Boggin]

i might try that and just leave it the white-ish color after the blue is sanded off

 

[triumphrider-1]

That is pretty neat!

Although rather sacrelige in my book...

But I bleed blue.

Not all Ford emblems are blue, my 8N:

Other Ford agri. decal:

 

[mattpresley]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but Will this work on a 2009 emblem? I wanna get one of them on my tailgate to make my truck look newer and I'd like to paint it black to match my rims and future taillights