Sliders and Bumper, coating
 

I am getting ready to reweld my sliders on after a year in the attic, and am trying to figure out what to coat them in: rhino, line-x, or rattle can

I am leaning towards a spay on liner. For several reasons, texture, durability, and they have to prep the surface. (My sliders were originally rattle canned and lived a life in seattle and alabama, and are UGLY) But which one is a more durable liner?

The other option is have them sandblasted and back to rattle canned.

My rear bumper is rattle canned right now and I will match it to whatever I do on the sliders.

I know I dont want to powercoat them becuase I think its the most prone to being destroyed, thus a new poll... I have seen the others with bedliner vs poweder coating.

So in addition to your opinion I am also looking for trail stories of line-X or rhino lining. I dont wheel as much anymore where I need the sliders, but they are still there. I will probally hit trees more that sharp rocks, but??

Thanks for the opinions.

IMO I would strip the sliders, prime them and hit them with rustoleum black. Several coats and they will be soooo easy to touch up when they get scratched.

Spary-on liner will ook good, but what are you going to do when they get beat up?? Plus, rattle can is much cheaper

Rattle can! I did my TJM with the same Hammertite stuff from HomeDepot that I did the sliders with. Like already said when I come home I just mask off the body and repaint the sliders and every so often need to touch up the bumper. This paint has a cool texture that helps it blend better.

Sliders that are used...pointless to paint them anyting other than rattle can.

Bling bling sliders...who cares. :hillbill:

:guitar:

I certainly not about bling....:chair:

The Herculiner stuff sounds like a happy medium. Tougher than spray paint but not as expensive as having the rhino or line-x done.

Is herculiner the stuff you roll on? I tried that before and it didnt stick at all. I will probally use something in a spray can.

If you're actually going to make use of the sliders or bumper, the spray can will be easiest for touch ups ;-)

One of our OHTTORA members had his rhinolined.

He created quite a creative string of expletives trying to clean them up so they could be touched up.

By comparison, mine are POR-15, just break out the spray can and touch them up.

I just looked up POR-15, looks like a good product, pricey but good.

How much would you guess I'd need for a pair of sliders and a allpro bumper.

what do you use to spray it? Do you use their primer?

I don't know - they came from 4Crawler done, now I just rattle can them to touch up.

I hear the POR-15 goes a long way.

Where did you find rattle cans of POR-15, or are you using rattle can paint?

If you are regularly scratching stuff up, I would reattle-can. If it's fairly rare and you want a nicer finish, I would buy a cheap HVLP sray gun for $50, and use automotive paint. It has the benefit of hardner, and the protection and shine will last MUCH longer than cans.

That's the path I'm going. Powdercoat is too expensive in my area.

HTH Roy

Buy one pint of POR-15 and apply it with a good quality brush. Then either rattle can it or buy one pint of POR-15 Chassiscoat or Blackcoat paint and apply it the same way.
How much will one pint cover? My bro did his AllPro sliders, front/rear bumpers, e-locker guard, Hi-Lift slider adaptor, and still had some left over. It goes a very long way and it looks good. Well worth the money. Check out the POR-15 store on eBay.

thanks

Just use regular rattle-can for the touch up. After several of those, I'll wirebrush them down and redo the POR-15. Around here, you gotta get on it QUICK or it'll rust bad.

One thing to think about also that I think is a negative point of a herculiner type of coating is that I regularly rub the inside of my lower leg on my sliders getting in and out because of the lift and how the sliders stick out a bit. I think a liner type product would hurt like hell with shorts on. Small point but in SoCal we wear shorts a lot.

Small point but I'm a geek like that.

Yeah, not affect me at 6'4'', long legs, but my wife is only 5'8''...I am now leaning towards the POR-15, or an equivilant. My dad owns a marine repair business so I will probally find a place he has account that sell POR-15 or similar to get it at cost.

I'm about to sand down the fat welds on my home-made sliders and rustoleum them black... what do you do to "prime" them before spraypainting?

You got me, I voted thinking this was new. :laugh:

I usually clean them off with some brake cleaner or something similar, then hit them with some rustoleum primer and paint, end of story. So far, no trouble.

Ditto.

:guitar:

Agreed. :rockin:

ya dont spray brake cleaner on an already painted surface. it will bubble it up and make it icky! i found that out the hard way duh! I just used some rattle can bedliner (duplicolor) holding up good. :)

I like rustoleum HAMMER'd finish black paint. Great stuff. It lasted in my sliders and bumper for nearly a year and a half before needing touched up.
I AM extremely hard on my truck fyi.

WTF?

I will get you when you least expect it!


Just Rattle can them. They get banged up too much to do anything else. I respray mine after almost every outing. 30min job and they look good again and will not rust in the salt air down here.

I'm sleeping with one eye open at Big Bear. hahaha

I like rattle can paint cuz I am scuffing mine all the time with my shoes or rubbing the bottoms on dirt or rocks, rattle can takes 2 secs to spray. And Black costs like 98 cents for teh cehap stuff.

No, you don't, I meant bare metal. It will remove the machining oil and most any other dirt and crap. :great: You could use brake fluid to remove all the paint first...

i dont know why this thread popped up as new, prolly cuz i voted in it....
but now I'll add to its meandering subjects

anyway, just rattled my new ones with rustoleum hammered in the parking lot (apratment), and used the suggestion of the brake cleaner... works great, but oops, forgot about the asphalt thing, the spots it dripped i could leave marks in with my flashlight when i poked them... thought that was kinda funny, anyway, I'm going nowhere with this post..............

I was at the paint store yesterday and while I was waiting, I found a granular application for slippery surfaces. The instructions said paint surface and let get tacky, apply product then repaint. I think once my sliders are built it's whatI'll do to make the top non-slip.. So rattle can it and be done....

Paint-on hammered rustoleum in black. It dries and looks just like powdercoat. I love the stuff. It needs touched up about every year. Note: I drive offroad, I go 4x4'ing and work construction. It still holds up well.

I had my trk shop spray my sliders with bedliner, trees no problem for the sliders, hard on the tree. I'm 6' 1" and I catch the slider with my leg some. If I had it to do over I'd have the liner on top then just paint on sides and botom

I used a local company in FL called HotSpray looks ok not like you can clean them or anything and if you use some shiny crap it gets on your pants or legs when entering and exiting. So they stay clean but not pretty.

Aaron

I've heard that bedliner material will peel off the sliders if you scrape over rocks a lot. I also found that the higher priced spray paints (I used Rustoleum Hammered Finish) seem to be too hard and likely to chip off if you drive a lot of gravel roads. Had mine sandblasted clean after one trip to Death Valley when I first painted them. A cheap spray paint is softer and tends to last longer from what I have seen. Or, I use POR-15 primer and top coat. If seems to hold up the best, it is tough and flexible and resists chipping pretty well. Also, if it does get chipped or scratched, it will not rust up underneath the paint like some of the surface coatings will.

that sounds accurate, as with everthing offroad related each given individuals will varry therefore his specific needs will change as well. So if you say hammertome paint I say not a bad idea I used that on my last set of wheels worked great!!!


Aaron

i sprayed mine at first. cant touch em up on the truck here cause its always windy. so i buy the small can of rustoleum and a 2" foam brush and its streak free and takes 10 minutes to touch them up. much better than rattle can imho

I used the Duplicolor bed liner in the spray can to coat some sliders and a bumper I made for some friends. The bed liner has held up pretty well on the sliders, it dried pretty hard and holds up to abuse pretty well. The bumper on my friends Ranger sustained a 25mph rear end from a full size GMC and the bumper coating wasn't even scratched. I did think it was cool my friend drove home with no damage, but the GMC had to be towed:devil:

I have used rattle can, roll on bed liner and POR, the POR is hands down the best!!