Finished the new bedliner!

Sarg · Post by **Sarg** » May 30, 2011, 6:54 pm

Well, finished up today. It has taken me about 6 weeks of a little here, a little there. Yesterday I spent a solid 10 hours on the truck and finished getting everything back to bare metal, made and welded in a patch panel for the bed floor (I was proud seeing as I used nothing but a ball peen hammer and a 3" vise!). The bed was not perfect to start with. There were some areas I had to treat with rust treatment and some dents I was not really worried about. This is not a show truck and never will be. It will be used as it was intended, hauling around parts and whatever else might be needed.

Today I finished priming it with a self etching primer and sprayed in the liner. Overall I was quite impressed with the raptor liner for the money AND the results. It looks just like the professional jobs I have seen.

A couple of notes...for those with longer styleside beds like me, order a couple extra bottles of the liner as well as some more hardner. While I have everything covered, I started to realize that going with a real thick coat like I was doing at first was going to make me run out, lol. One extra bottle would have been nice, two would have been perfect.

Where gloves and don't try to tip the spray gun too far as the liner will come out of the hole in the top! Once that stuff gets on your hands it is a pain to get back off!

Mask off anything and everything you don't want to get this line on. It will get to places you did not expect. When it is wet, you can try to wipe it off, but it won't come off easily.

Now the pics

MadMaxetc · Post by **MadMaxetc** » May 30, 2011, 7:00 pm

Looks realy good!

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » May 30, 2011, 7:18 pm

Well done Sarg!, how about a before pic?, for a comparison!

Sarg · Post by **Sarg** » May 30, 2011, 7:28 pm

ehhhhh....not sure if I have a before. Imagine the bed painted with blue brushed on house paint, lol. Oh and a 6"x6" hole cut in it with what looked to be a torch! This truck was a bit of an undertaking when I bought it. But I enjoy restoration, so to me it is fun.

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » May 30, 2011, 7:30 pm

Fun is what it`s all about Sarg!

DukeRoche · Post by **DukeRoche** » May 30, 2011, 7:35 pm

That is sharp looking. Congrats on a job well done.

HiBoy63 · Post by **HiBoy63** » May 30, 2011, 9:21 pm

You would never know there was a 6" hole in that bed anyplace. looks good.

andgott · Post by **andgott** » May 30, 2011, 9:22 pm

Looks nice! My bed needs attention- I might need to look in to doing it this way.

macgiobuin · Post by **macgiobuin** » May 31, 2011, 6:47 am

Nice! Very well done.

Sarg · Post by **Sarg** » May 31, 2011, 8:31 pm

HiBoy63 wrote:You would never know there was a 6" hole in that bed anyplace. looks good.

Eh, you can tell, believe me. Since I overlapped the patch rather than cutting it to size (my welding skills are still developing and overlap is easier for me

) you can see a definitive patch, but my thought is when I go back to touch up the bedliner I will build up a layer of bedliner a bit more around the patch and it won't be AS visible.

Sarg · Post by **Sarg** » May 31, 2011, 8:41 pm

Alan Mclennan wrote:Well done Sarg!, how about a before pic?, for a comparison!

Here is the only kind of before pic. The bed was the blue color you see with paint chipping and showing the yellow you see underneath. This is also a pic of the patch I made.

tray · Post by **tray** » May 31, 2011, 10:39 pm

Great job, looks great!