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Hi I am new to these forums I love classic trucks and bought my first truck, a 1984 f250 6.9l idi. I was just wondering if anyone has done anything with durabak bedliner paint? I looked into it they make a wide variety of colors and they make textured and smooth paints. I would like to do a two tone between the smooth blue and dark grey. If anybody has done this let me know. Thanks, Joe
Generally most people will tell you that using bedliner to do anything other than line a bed isn't a good idea. It doesn't protect against rust as well as primer / paint, it will trap moisture underneath more than paint and it tends to give sort of a junk-yard truck appearance.
If you do sort of have a junk yard truck and are looking for a better way to hold the body pieces together than duct tape, bedliner can work. However it really doesn't cover holes. If you tape over the hole first (preferable from the back side) and layer it on thick it will keep some structure there, but if you don't cover the holes first it will just run through as you apply it.
I bedlined the interior of my Bronco with Duraback. I didn't go very thick, and it hasb't held up nearly as well to scrapes as the professoinally installed Rhino liner I had sprayed in a truck once. Also it's stayed pretty soft, which is both good and bad. But I think if it was used on a truck that gets driven through brush it would get caught and torn pretty easily.
Generally most people will tell you that using bedliner to do anything other than line a bed isn't a good idea. It doesn't protect against rust as well as primer / paint, it will trap moisture underneath more than paint and it tends to give sort of a junk-yard truck appearance.
If you do sort of have a junk yard truck and are looking for a better way to hold the body pieces together than duct tape, bedliner can work. However it really doesn't cover holes. If you tape over the hole first (preferable from the back side) and layer it on thick it will keep some structure there, but if you don't cover the holes first it will just run through as you apply it.
I bedlined the interior of my Bronco with Duraback. I didn't go very thick, and it hasb't held up nearly as well to scrapes as the professoinally installed Rhino liner I had sprayed in a truck once. Also it's stayed pretty soft, which is both good and bad. But I think if it was used on a truck that gets driven through brush it would get caught and torn pretty easily.
I beg to differ. I used the rustoleum bed liner spray on my scooter. Sprayed everything with the bedliner spray, then sprayed yellow krylon for plastic paint over select pieces. I wanted to thicken up the panels since my scooter panels were thin. It worked perfectly and has been holding up for over a year without anything removing. Gives it a nice satin look.
It's all in the prep work and application... I don't think a junk yard appearance at all.
Generally most people will tell you that using bedliner to do anything other than line a bed isn't a good idea. It doesn't protect against rust as well as primer / paint, it will trap moisture underneath more than paint and it tends to give sort of a junk-yard truck appearance.
If you do sort of have a junk yard truck and are looking for a better way to hold the body pieces together than duct tape, bedliner can work. However it really doesn't cover holes. If you tape over the hole first (preferable from the back side) and layer it on thick it will keep some structure there, but if you don't cover the holes first it will just run through as you apply it.
I bedlined the interior of my Bronco with Duraback. I didn't go very thick, and it hasb't held up nearly as well to scrapes as the professoinally installed Rhino liner I had sprayed in a truck once. Also it's stayed pretty soft, which is both good and bad. But I think if it was used on a truck that gets driven through brush it would get caught and torn pretty easily.
That is my out look on it also.
I used Dupli-Color bed coating (black) on the cab floor top & bottom. This was done with cab off frame. The other day I had to pull the cab from frame fro something and when I undid the bolts some of the liner cam up. Yes the floor was prepped right more so on top than bottom, it was the top by the bolts that came off.
As they say it is YOUR truck to build the way YOU want so if you want to bed line it so be it but I would not if mine.
Oh once on it is a bear to get off as I have a bed on parts truck that is lined and I need to remove a little of the liner. Google how to remove liner.
Dave ----
edit: If you want to paint your truck your self Google Rustoleum roller paint jobs on cars. I have seen (pictures) some that looked pretty good and is no where as hard to remove if you want to later on.
POR-15 does make a bed liner as well as a Top Coat. Just another option. Keep in mind, whatever you choose to do, it's all in the prep but by the looks of the scooter, you know that.
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