Glad you were finally were able to get a coat down. Told ya that stuff goes everywhere. But the 2nd coat you will feel better. You think you have it all covered on that first one. Once you go back and it's dry you will seat little spot and specs peaking through everywhere. That shine also wears off. And it just goes to black. But very nice job! P.s. also watch the Brian plug holes. I didn't when I did mine and had a nice puddle on the ground! Haha. Wife is still mad at me!
Yup, lol, got some on the exhaust lol. Glad to hear that shine goes away, not really digging that. Did the 2nd coat today. That'll be tomorrow's video if I can ever get the videos from my phone to my laptop, been trying for 4 hours now. The 2nd coat also seems to increase the number of rubber chunks per given area too. Pretty easy to lay down, so mad at myself for doing so much prep, what a waste of time! I'm done with the front area and still have a little over half left so that's good. I'll be able to do the back and touch up any areas with that 1 kit. Thanks for the comments!
looks really nice. you had me laughing (sorry for the breathing I'm holding my breath) stuffs bad isn't it . i see really only one problem and its a big one, you'll probably going to have to get up under the dash and turn the magnet down before you take that thing out cruising, you don't want any of the trouble it is going to bring you
I love my sammi mine is an 88 with almost 600k miles lol. you killed this paint job! looks better than what you can get at a paint shop. im debating about taking mine to a linex shop and having them do the bed, passenger area and undercoat. thoughts?
Hey thanks. I'm not sure what they would charge but you'd prob save a ton of money if you did it yourself. I hope I didn't dissuade anyone by doing the prep the way I did. After seeing how forgiving this stuff was I went way way overboard! I'm still kicking myself for wasting all that time. Honestly as long as it's clean and free of dirt that's prob all the prep you really need (and then obviously grind out the rust if there is any). I think that 1 gallon kit was just over $100 (prob right at $100 online). That would be enough to do all but your undercoating and another person in the comments told me they were really happy using Harbor Freight's bed liner as their undercoating so I was thinking about doing that. I'll definitely make a video if I do. It honestly looks better after the 2nd coat (did that today). Wow 600k miles! That's really impressive, I'd say the ole girl deserves some kind of treatment like this. For a few hundred bucks you could do what you're talking about yourself, no clue what they would charge at a shop but the reason I chose Herculiner was because people in the comments really liked it. I bet the commercial stuff they use at a shop is even better and I'm sure you get some sort of warranty too.
Good point, I you want something done right, do it yourself right? My friends daughter has a few sewing machines. I've never sewn (sewed? see can't even spell it) in my life but maybe she could make me something.
The original door straps actually have some metal pieces that cover the holes to keep that from happening. I have my original pieces if you want them. Currently mine have a carabiner on the end because I cut the door hinges to make the doors removable like a jeep. Pretty easy to do if you want, just let me know...I still have the instructions and it wasn't so long ago that I forgot yet!
@@BA-jr9wr Believe it or not this new rubber strap broke even with the metal caps on there. If you look on the back it does have some mesh in the rubber but it's less than what's in a piece of duct tape. Just cheap crap. I noticed the replacement ones are several inches longer too. They prob know they can't hold up so they make em longer thinking it'll be less stress. Man I didn't think I was even pulling very hard on that rope either. I kept the originals so I was thinking about trying to vulcanize the new to the old somehow lol. The old ones just have little cracks from being old, kinda like me.
Truck bedliners shouldn't be applied on naked steel. First, You removed original protection, then painted bedliner. That's wrong. If You removed protection layer, should use at least two layers of epoxid primer, then bedliner, or leave original, wash it, a little sand paper 300, then cover with bedliner. Now rust is dancing and singing undercover.