Ditto.

 

Agreed.

 

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. 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

 

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