Here is THE TRICK for doing stuff like that. First off, the general rule is to always have the item hanging or on a rack or what ever, in the "attitude" that it is on the truck. That way when it's bolted in, you are seeing it just as the paint gun saw it and thus it will look the best as you see it on the truck.
That being said, to rotate the item as you put coats on is the ultimate to be sure you get every spec of it painted properly.
I just painted the four control arms for my daily driver last night, they were hanging from metal hooks made from coat hangers. Now I couldn't very well put these in the "attitude" they are on the car, but using the second suggestion I just gave you I got them completely covered. I painted one at a time of course as it was hanging, I then had an extra hanger there to grab the bottom of the control arm and rotated it bottom end up and put the next coat. This way I can see every bit of it and getting a good coat of paint on every spec, understand? If I hadn't done that, the end you see hanging down would have had thin spots. But with putting it to the top where I could see it and paint it perfectly, it gets fully coated with no bare spots.
Brian
