Painting boat trailer

[CC Hurl]

I just spent the last 3 weekends striping my trailer down to nothing and beefing up some welds, put a new tung on it and stripped all the paint down with a wire brush. Put new bearings,races and cleaned the axle up real nice.

Now i get to the painting part and i cleaned the metal real well with paint thiner,prime it and painted it with spray cans of rust olium. The trailer looks real cool, but my question is... will this be good enough for the paint job or should have I gone some other rout? I know it's sort of affter the fact but now I am perinoid. I was thiking of hitting it real good with a clear acrilic paint to seal it better.

Just looking for some opinions or what some of you may have used on this sort of project.

Thanks for your time.

CC HURL

[crothmeier]

I'd hit it with a good clear coat. Give it a nice finish, and a little protection from rocks.

[Hafnutz]

Sounds like you did a good job. My only concern is the paint from spray cans lays on a pretty thin coat. I would make sure you have several (maybe 5-6) coats to assure you have the proper thickness of paint to give it some protection.

[MNice]

A bed liner product would provide great protection.

[Sandmannd]

I agree with the extra coats. I'd like to see some pics of that, it sounds pretty dang cool.