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Fingerless

Fingerless

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So Have been tearing out the interior getting ready to Rhino Line the Inside. Now Ive got the Carpet, Pad and Hard Rubber stuff up down to bare painted metal.

So Do now need to wire wheel the paint off down to bare metal? Or can I just clean the painted metal and apply over the top of it?

Second Whats the best way to clean it up? Ive taken off the rear panels because im going to line in there too but there's 30 years of dust caked up in there. Wash it? Blow it with air gun?
 
I was thinking something like this for the tight spots.
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My interior is LIne Xd, Use a green scratch pad and hit everything and anything inside. Wipe down with denatured alcohol, give it a really good wipe down (use gloves) and that should do it. Make sure any stickers or rubber flooring or anything like that comes up. Otherwise youll just be painting over it and when it comes loose, youll have a bare spot
 
I had my entire K5 body line-x'ed inside and out, as well as the bed of my new Ram pickup I recently purchased. They lightly sand the entire surface first, he said he uses a D/A sander with a light sandpaper and just goes over it all quickly.
 
Second on 73k5blazer. I used a DA with fine grit, then wiped it down with a cleaner called xylene. Xylene is more expensive than alcohol or thinner, put it cleans much better and allows the bed-liner to ad-hear properly. I have used a wire wheel in the past as well and it didnt allow proper scuffing for adhesion.
 
I can see it being easy to use the DA on the taller part of the ridges in the bed, but what about the lower part? Just angle it in there? I guess you'll still get some bare metal that way, yeah?
 
I just scuffed mine with an angle grinder with a wire cup....
blew the loose stuff out with an air hose,,,
wiped it all down with a little acetone on a rag.....

Then rolled in my own Herculiner out of the can......worked fine.....:waytogo:
 
Just sayin'...... it worked fine....:dunno:

it's still stuck to the floor of two trucks after several years...and that "works" in my book...:waytogo:
 
I wasn't pointing fingers at anyone... I'm just sayin what a wirewheels propensity to do is... burnishing surfaces has a higher percentage of failing than a cut grit.... just look at anything you've ever wirewheeled, it makes sh*t shiney..

it may be fine, but it is not a proper coating prep technique.. that said, it's vastly superior to flakey crap all over it or something...
 
Ok so what is the best practice? Hand sanding? What is the "DA" they're talking about?
 
dual action sander...

generally the best approach is to machine sand everything you can get to, then go over it by hand to get any shiney stuff the machine wont get...
 
So would my dewalt orbital work? What grit paper? Or would one of those sanding pads that you put in a drill be better?
 
a sanding pad on a drill is a rotary tool, effectively a grinder, so no... yes, an orbital sander will do fine... not a true DA, but it will get the job done...

grit should be in the 180 to 220 range... if you go thru to raw steel in a few spots, it's best to spot in a bit of primer over the bare spots, then run a red scuffpad over those areas to dull em.. the scuffpad can also be used for nooks and crannies that you can't get with a sander or by hand... your trying to have no shine.. a "cut" for the liner to bite to...

I know some of the liners recommend zylene for preclean, but I'm not a fan... it's a nasty product and denatured alcohol does as good or better job and isn't nearly as toxic...
 
Ok another Question. What to do about the bolt holes?

Stuff them with something?

Leave the bolts in and paint over them? then wrench them back out later?

Whats the best practice?

Im looking to finish tearing everything out on thursday, then Sun Start wiping with alcohol and Start rolling on the Herc.
 
Xylene is the solvent in the liner so it works well, however its a fairly "hot" solvent that will burn on your skin if your not used to it. You can always use MEK if you wanna melt your skin off :-)
 
Fingerless said:
Ok another Question. What to do about the bolt holes?

Stuff them with something?

Leave the bolts in and paint over them? then wrench them back out later?

Whats the best practice?

Im looking to finish tearing everything out on thursday, then Sun Start wiping with alcohol and Start rolling on the Herc.
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I would put the bolts in any hole you dont want filled.

When I had my interior LIne X'd they told me to circle what I wanted to keep (meaning that im going to be putting bolts back in) and what I wanted filled (meaning they will leave open and will get material in them thru the spray process)

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One other thing - what about seam sealer? I have some that is coming up (passenger foot well). I was planning on removing it and redoing it before put down the bedliner. Sound idea or do I even need to replace it?
 
I love seam sealer... easy enough, scrape out the bad, wirebrush, throw a bit of primer down, seamseal, coat away..
 
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