Need some more Rookie advice.... I am getting ready to prime my cab in epoxy. I want to spray the color matched urethane bedliner as soon as the epoxy is dry so I can get the chemical bond. AND so I can set the cab back on the frame to finish painting. Should I? Or should I spray base/clear and then mask and spray the liner? 1. The bedliner will stop on the edges of the cab. Can I simply mask the outer edge of the cab with tape? Or will it try to peel the bedliner off since it is right at the lip? Then just mask the bedliner and shoot base and clear? I guess my main concern is not getting the base and clear "wrapped" around that edge very well, and it peeling along it. 2. Next question is can I spray the bedliner and then mask it and spray base and clear? Or do I need to spray base and clear and then mask and bedliner....for a flat surface? 3. What is the best tape to use?
Do your ALL your body work FIRST ! Before ANY colour goes on... Or you will find yourself redoing it again after you scratch the hell out of it.
That's why I want to spray the bedliner first..... So I can set the cab back on the frame and bolt the doors up....
Best tape that I used was plain old silver Duct Tape. When peeled just before the final set of the bed liner creates a nice sharp line. You would be advised to paint and clear everything then sand and spray the bed liner That is the manufacturers recommendation and never had any peeling from a edge or tape line.
You definitely want paint under the edges of the bedliner. I would epoxy the whole thing mount it and do all your body work. Then you can paint and bedline it. Are you painting a metallic? If not no need to BC/CC just use single stage. It will make it easier. Paint all the areas where the paint and bedliner will meet like you would jam a car then do your bedliner. Then if you happen to disrupt any of your body work you can retouch it up and spray the rest.
Not real sure that bed liner has a chemical bond but relies on a course surface. I sand with a 180 grit DA and just scuff the surface to "etch it".
If I do that....Id have to pull it again to put the bedliner on the bottom??? Which means back on the rotisserie. And more chances of scuffing something. That's why I was hoping to be able to just line the bottom and then mask it off.
I have always preferred to spray the bedliner underneath after the top of the body has been painted, but before it gets cut and buffed. My reasoning is, if there is some kind of breach in my masking job, it’s easier to get the bedliner off of the paint (since I will be sanding and buffing anyway), than to remove paint overspray from the rough surface of the bedliner. Dave
Yes, yes I do! Do you know what sticks to rhino liner? Not masking tape! Not crash wrap either! That makes masking it off a bit of a problem. I did the bottom of the cab floor, seat riser, trans cover, inside of all 4 fenders and the running boards top and bottom.
I plan on epoxying my entire cab. Then do the undercoating on the floor and install the cab to do the body work. I will not spray anything over the epoxy for at least 24 hours. Depends on the temp. If it’s cool, I’ll wait a couple days. We just had a thread where a member sprayed lizard skin over epoxy and it cracked. Trapping solvents for epoxy is easy due to its slow cure time. I always scuff over it before applying anything anyway. I just painted a bed that had raptor liner over the top edge. I cleaned it and regular masking tape stuck just fine to it. just a side note, there are better products than bed liner for floors. I don’t feel the bed liner is good for sound deadening. Wurth and U-pol have water based under coatings that’s are great sound deadeners and are paintable.
I was the the Lizard skin culprit, when I finished the cab, 48 hours seemed to be the sweet spot. No issues on the rest. I spoke with U-Pol. They recommended the Bed liner, over their under coatings....
Well I be. Looks good. I’ve used both the u-pol and Wurth for floors. Lots of Wurth. I like both and the bed liners. But the water based under coats seem the be quieter.
I was planning to use Wurth Rubberized undercoating after I saw it used on *****in Rides.... However after speaking to UPOL, they moved me back into the bedliner category....
Just like jamming doors and windows in final color I would at least hit the edges with color to get the "wrap" you are looking for. Then you can spray the bedliner and mount the cab and proceed with fit and final paint
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