Behold Behemoth! - Cleaned & Sealed with DP Poli-Coat
This is my friend Dave's 2004 Custom Kodiak Truck, he's a fabricator and he started with a Kodiak Cab and grafted in the center section of a 1996 Chevy Van between the front and rear of cab portions of the cab to create a custom stretched truck cab.
- 6.6 Duramax Diesel Engine.
- Allison 1000 Series Transmission.
- New Process 273 Transfercase.
- 15000 Ramsey Winch - Front.
- 3 Fuel Tanks, Two 60 Gallon Tanks and One 50 Gallon Tank.
- Rear Bed is 2007 Chevrolet Dually Pickup Bed - this is a Dump Bed and a Roll-back Bed.
To say it's big is an understatement. Here's Dave's Kodiak parked next to a 1964 Ford Falcoln and the Kodiak Truck dwarfs this full size Ford passenger car. 
Dave uses his Behemoth to move Yachts around where he works at American Custom Yachts Incorporated.
Due to it's size it's parked out side, exposed to the coastal weather here in Florida where even though it has a very new single stage paint job, the boat yard is a busy place with sand blasting and painting a common duty performed and this means Dave's truck is exposed to a lot of air borne overspray and contaminants.
We're going to start with washing Dave's Kodiak and we can safely feel the paint and check for Above Surface Bonded Contaminants.
Washing, claying and waxing a truck this size is a little more difficult than a normal car, truck or s.u.v., luckily we have the right tools to do the job safely. 
After washing, I drove the Behemoth into the studio where I can dry it with some waffle weave drying towels and then inspect the paint for above surface bonded contaminants. 
Ready to dry and then clay the paint. After washing I felt the vertical surfaces, (haven't got up high enough at the time of this post to feel the horizontal surfaces), and there's definitely above surface bonded contaminants, my guess is some overspray paint.
If you're reading this and you have never used detailing clay before, here's a video on how to use detailing clay to remove above surface bonded contaminants.
How detailing clay works and how to use detailing clay to remove above surface bonded contaminants To remove above surface bonded contaminants, we're going to use Detailer's Pride Universal Clay Lubricant and DP Universal Detailing Clay. 
After claying just the hood here's what the face of the clay looks like... 
Before moving on to any more panels, it's a good idea to fold your clay into itself and then re-knead the clay into a new clay patty... 
Now you're ready to get back to claying... 
On the top of the fenders, I found small rust spots which could be some type of metal particulates... 
Here's a close-up... there are a number of ways to tackle metal particles embedded in paint, for this project we tried claying and it appeared to remove the clay particles to the paint the rust stains were gone and the paint felt smooth and glassy.
If Dave finds the rust spots return, then we might have to try the Finish Kare Paint Decontamination System.
As I moved around the truck I also found the plastic lens on the tail lights had a rough feel to them so these were also clayed. You can clay any surface that's smooth like paint, plastic, chrome, stainless steel and glass for example. 
We're finished claying and ready to move on to the next step...
Claying restores smoothness to the paint surface and gloss comes from smoothness, as you can see below the paint is now uniformly glossy over the entire truck.
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