Bedliner questions

[Bigb55]

Looking for some opinions here. After completing all my rust repair and replacing all the body mounts and bolts. It's time to pick a floor pan coating for my '74. I Currently have rust bullet covering the front floor pans and the rear is rocking it's Grecian bronze paint from 1974 coupled with lots of white over spray from whoever painted the truck white.

I'm interested in Raptor liner and Monstaliner. Leaning toward Monstaliner as it appears it will have a smoother texture. Easier to blow out dust and dirt.


I'm Having a hard time deciding on coating the rear side panel area or leaving it with the matching exterior paint. Pros and cons? What looks best? What's best for water resistance/rust prevention?

Also, I have googled so much that I have read horror stories (mostly from jeep and FJ sites) of urethane bed liners hiding rust development on the floor pans. Rust that would have easily been spotted earlier from bubbling paint.

Which brings me to my last question, I plan to turn my current carpet into giant floor mats to lay over the bedliner. The bedliner is more for water protection as my '74 has a soft top and the top is not 100% leak proof.

Would the less durable Rusteleum paint style bedliner achieve the same results?


Basically what's everyone's opinion on a bedliner interior.

 

[1300obo]

That's the plan for my 73. Mix the base coat with raptorliner and spray it kind of like @NorCal69 did

 

[Bigb55]

That's the plan for my 73. Mix the base coat with raptorliner and spray it kind of like @NorCal69 did

My interior is black vinyl and exterior is summit white. Raptor liner comes tinted in Summit White. I have thought of doing black on the floor pan and white on the sides. That way the black carpet will blend well. While appearance will look OEM ish

 

[Gibby56]

I did the roll on Hurculiner on my cab and Top. Application was easy and the texture is pretty similar to the LineX in the bed of my Dodge. Would not recommend either one for in the cab though.

Have you looked into LizardSkin? I think that is more of what you are looking for. One of my buddies did it on the entire floor of his 73 and it came out pretty smooth and helps a ton with heat and noise.

 

[flatland]

I just finished using raptor liner on the floor of my K5, front and cargo area as well as sides (gm summit white to match current color) The floor was sanded to bare metal, patched as needed. I thinned the raptor and shot it through an hvlp gun over raptor epoxy primer. Coverage was good and texture was a bit smoother than typical bedliner through a schutz gun,but there were dry spray areas ( this was probably my fault as this was my first attempt at bed liners). After it cured I scuffed it and applied another coat by brushing any corners then rolling the rest. This came out much better for me. It was more of a moderate/heavy orange peel and I think will work well and not be too hard to clean.
The raptor can be tinted to match your current color, not sure how close it matches, though.

 

[Bigb55]

I just finished using raptor liner on the floor of my K5, front and cargo area as well as sides (gm summit white to match current color) The floor was sanded to bare metal, patched as needed. I thinned the raptor and shot it through an hvlp gun over raptor epoxy primer. Coverage was good and texture was a bit smoother than typical bedliner through a schutz gun,but there were dry spray areas ( this was probably my fault as this was my first attempt at bed liners). After it cured I scuffed it and applied another coat by brushing any corners then rolling the rest. This came out much better for me. It was more of a moderate/heavy orange peel and I think will work well and not be too hard to clean.
The raptor can be tinted to match your current color, not sure how close it matches, though.

I am leaning toward using the white raptor all over the interior. A blacked out tub might be to much contrast when the top is off. Having some white accents inside give it a OEM feel.

I Can always 2k paint over the white raptor down the road if I want a color change someday.