Rubber Bedliner

The Dodge Dakota I am working on has a rubber like bed liner on it. This stuff is very thick in places and extremely difficult to remove.

Does anyone have an idea of who makes this stuff?

My thoughts were to get the flaking parts removed and then shoot some Upol Raptor over it. My concern is whether I will have good adhesion doing so or if I should try purchase the same type of bed liner it has now?
 
The only rubberized liner I'm aware of is rattle can stuff. I believe all the commercial, professionally installed product was a hard surface. But I could be wrong.
Other forums say that aircraft paint remover, even the newer, weaker stuff will dissolve it, but will take multiple applications. Might be worth a try.
No matter what, it is going to be a messy, time consuming effort.
Shooting new material over old seems dicey to me.
FYI I'm a huge fan of Raptor and have details on dialing in gun settings for desired texture if you are interested.
 
This doesn't look like a rattle can job to me.
I am really not interested in stripping it off, just want to add another layer to dress it up.
 
This doesn't look like a rattle can job to me.
I am really not interested in stripping it off, just want to add another layer to dress it up.
If you don't have a line on what the original material is, here is a thought:
Clean and scuff the existing material. Shoot it with epoxy primer and then Raptor over that.
 
Bedliner shops have something they can spray over their old material that softens it up enough to be re-shot. I don't know what is in it.
 
This may be what you're looking for. I got a job at BAE Systems while I was laid off from my other job and they coated the Humvee turrets with this. I know that you don't want to take it off but they sprayed the turrets on carts and after awhile the carts would build up a real thick coat and they had to be cleaned off. We would heat them in some ovens and it would come off real easy.


 
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There are several brands of the thicker, softer, rubbery type bedliners. They were shot with a high dollar system with drums of each component that got mixed at the nozzle and dried almost instantly. The dealership I was working at shot one called tuff liner, I believe. When they sprayed over one, they feathered out any bad spots with 40# da, wiped with MEK, and sprayed them. That is what they were told to do by the bedliner company. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0134B4JNA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=Tyche-3415-im-20 These work well for scuffing before spraying. I just use them on a buffer.
 
There use to be a Al’s bed liner that you shot out of a hopper gun that was thick and rubbery. There was actually chunks of rubber you mixed in with it.
 
I used to spray Rattleguard for several years that had rubber mixed with it, but it wasn't near as thick as the Rhino or TuffLiner. I believe they were a polyurea coating.
 
I have the UPOL Raptor gun with one bottle of material left but is clearly not the same material that is on the bed now.
The owner doesn't want to pay me to remove all the bedliner and respray it. So I am thinking of sanding smooth and rough spots, washing it with a scrub brush and soapy water, rinse and let it dry real good.
From there I was thinking it would be best to shoot two coats of black epoxy and then look for a brush on product.
 
I have the UPOL Raptor gun with one bottle of material left but is clearly not the same material that is on the bed now.
The owner doesn't want to pay me to remove all the bedliner and respray it. So I am thinking of sanding smooth and rough spots, washing it with a scrub brush and soapy water, rinse and let it dry real good.
From there I was thinking it would be best to shoot two coats of black epoxy and then look for a brush on product.
Raptor can be brushed or rolled on. Instructions on their website.
 

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Ha, ha.
I ended up ordering the Raptor Bedliner that can be brushed on.
Still going to take more prep work than I care do do on this relic.
 
The only rubberized liner I'm aware of is rattle can stuff. I believe all the commercial, professionally installed product was a hard surface. But I could be wrong.
Other forums say that aircraft paint remover, even the newer, weaker stuff will dissolve it, but will take multiple applications. Might be worth a try.
No matter what, it is going to be a messy, time consuming effort.
Shooting new material over old seems dicey to me.
FYI I'm a huge fan of Raptor and have details on dialing in gun settings for desired texture if you are interested.
I'd be interested in the settings you've used. I'm doing the fenderwells, trunk, and door sills on a mustang, and the inside of a classic jeep. I'd love to see what gunbyou use and how you set up, thin, etc!
 
I bought the kit that came with a Schutz spray gun.
You control the texture by adjusting your air pressure. I was around 40 PSI.

Upol makes a variable spray adjustment gun for multiple texture choices. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1142045854...:6aaa0f7fd9641bd6e6736dfc09a5d7a1;pt:1;choc:2

A guy on another site used it to spray a car/truck conversion in two tone bed liner. Upper portion using a finer spray pattern, lower colored portion was heavier texture.
Jeep Grand Cherokee Conversion.jpg

Came out pretty awesome.
 
I'd be interested in the settings you've used. I'm doing the fenderwells, trunk, and door sills on a mustang, and the inside of a classic jeep. I'd love to see what gunbyou use and how you set up, thin, etc!
I did a video of gun setup and the effect of various settings, for bedliner, and posted on YouTube.
That part starts at 24:30 into the video

Also, to get a really fine texture the Raptor can be reduced up to 20% and shot through an HVLP gun with 1.8 tip.
1st coat at 29 PSI, 8-10", full coat
2nd coat at 7.5 PSI, 8-10", light and even coat

I did this on my dash insert and really like how it came out

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I did a video of gun setup and the effect of various settings, for bedliner, and posted on YouTube.
That part starts at 24:30 into the video

Also, to get a really fine texture the Raptor can be reduced up to 20% and shot through an HVLP gun with 1.8 tip.
1st coat at 29 PSI, 8-10", full coat
2nd coat at 7.5 PSI, 8-10", light and even coat

I did this on my dash insert and really like how it came out

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Thank you very much! I'm playing with using raptor on door sills and trunk seal areas
 
Spi started out making two-bed liners.
One was the one we made and stopped making a few years back.
The other was rubber; a gallon was mixed with a baby food jar of chromate.
Best stuff ever, but if sprayed in a body shop
On the open floor, the office was unusable for a week due to stink.

I sold a trailer a year ago that I bought around 1998, and I sprayed it on the fenders as a non-slip; it was still perfect, I loved the stuff but also hard to mix up, so I stopped after aboutfive5 or so years.
 
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