Fabick your 80? (1 Viewer)

[Tenzig Norgay]

Everyone always uses line-x on their rides, but there are other options out there. Besides line-x and herculiner, what other products have people used on their 80's, pics please.

The roof of my LC is rusting around the upper windshield and its leaking in heavy rain now, hood looks like s****, so I will be lining my 80 in certain undetermined areas, and not all at once cause I'm poor, its my DD, and I'm going to do some kustum glassing and molding of the wheel wells at some other time. For now I will be sticking with the top since its leaking and will be pricey and time consuming, dropping headliner, pulling sun roof, new windshield, repair of leaky area, paint, and Fabick for sure. I personal don't like the look of line-x, although the newer stuff definitly looks better. I will be using Fabick, which is what I used on my 4 runner 8 years ago. I liked the look of it and the price was comparable to the other, and years of abuse have not hurt it at all.

Looks like Fabick has grown over the years and is pretty large with lots of dealers. A good sprayer is the most important thing of course, and I'll be doing all the work besides taping and spraying. I had them put it on pretty thick on the runner which was nice, and the guy had done a few other tricky jobs, so hopefully he will still be there. Heres some shots of Fabick on my 88, does that make it an 80. Lets see some pics of some other options

 

[Tennessee Jed]

Got the proper 1980's saggy butt suspension I see

Never heard of Fabick until now - in the photos it looks like it may be a little smoother than Linex and most of the others? Optical illusion? Looks like it has worn extremely well. Great looking 'Runner.

 

[Cannon88]

Did you make the body panels for your 4runner, or did you order them from somewhere? They look great!

 

[Tenzig Norgay]

Did you make the body panels for your 4runner, or did you order them from somewhere? They look great!

I made the rear, its basically fiberglass and duraglass. Chopped the rust, sliced the wheel wells and pounded them up, then chopped the arc from a second set of front fiberglass fenders and molded them to the rear to match the front. Was a lot of work but I learned how to fiberglass and it will not rust anymore,

Got the proper 1980's saggy butt suspension I see

Never heard of Fabick until now - in the photos it looks like it may be a little smoother than Linex and most of the others? Optical illusion? Looks like it has worn extremely well. Great looking 'Runner.

Had to throw the before pic in, I beat that thing like a rented donkey. Since I've redone the body, I don't beat it quite as hard, but have managed to smash up the drivers door a bit. Fabick is a little smoother than line-x, which is what I liked about it. I think the person spraying a bedliner can adjust the texture a little with any product, but 8 years ago line-x was really course, and fabick was smoother, so I went with them. Its held up extremely well, and I can't wait to put some on the LC.

I really like how kidglove's hood looks, completely covered, and would like to do the top including the rain gutter, just don't know how to make it look good in front of the drivers door without doing the whole front rail.

Another question for the line-x crew. How did you do around the windshield and or sunroof? Just tape off the installed windows and spray up to it, or spray it all and deal with install and fine tuning after?

 

[nicholas]

Can you get this stuff in white? I'm looking into doing something with the lx next spring.

 

[LINUS]

Another question for the line-x crew. How did you do around the windshield and or sunroof? Just tape off the installed windows and spray up to it, or spray it all and deal with install and fine tuning after?

I worked in a shop doing the Rhino-line back when they were pretty much it & Line-x was just getting started -- I was taught & the way the shop owner wanted the masking off done was to take a roll of tape & mask it sort of backwards.

The real edge of the masking was the center-ish of a 2" roll of tape - you put it on with the bottom edge of the tape ~1" below the true mask line, and only really push down on the lower half, then you folded back the tapes' upper half away from the vehicle, so you had half the tape width & sticky side out - then we would lay on the auto masking paper sticking the tack strip on the paper to the exposed tack of the masking tape.

The reason that we did it this way was because we let the liner fully cure before pulling the masking off - and if you mask off like traditional autobody, they advise you pull the mask before letting it cure (& it's a biotch to cut a clean edge in it if you let it dry) since the liner will try to pull up on the edge if dry & you don't cut it clean down to the base surface.

If you do it the way we did, you could get better buildup next to a edge, and once it cured we would take a rough pass & use a razor blade to cut away most of the mask, which was easy since it wasn't tight to the paint, then come back & bevel the masked edge away/off, cutting @ a ~45* angle -- that's how to get the mask to look "storebought" & also you don't risk bleeding from pulling the mask before it cures, or flat getting some on the paint & missing it before it dries.

HTH.

 

[Tenzig Norgay]

I talked on the phone today with Fabick in Madison and they only have a few other dealers/sprayers of their bedliner product, and only in the midwest. One in Mankato Minnesota, one in Michigan, and another in Osseo Wi. From what I understand, they are more of a chemical company that makes various products and sells them to others, but they also have a spray facility.

Can you get this stuff in white? I'm looking into doing something with the lx next spring.

And.... since they are a chemical company, they can mix up anything you want baby, wild lilac, fuscia, pomegranite, whatever you want. But it cost a lot more because of the uv blockers, dyes, etc. Double or more the cost. I'll be sticking with black, for now just the hood and maybe the top , just don't know how to make it look kewl. Probably wont get around to it till late summer early spring, but when its done I'll be posting pics.

 

[mickeyt]

Put the toyota teq sign on the hood or roof in a different color

 

[Jrob80]

I used Rhino Lining on my roof and love it: https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/384850-operation-improve-roof.html

 

[CREACHR]

Tenzig,

Have you contacted Fabick on your new project yet? I work in Madison and am highly interested in getting something similar done.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Another question for the line-x crew. How did you do around the windshield and or sunroof? Just tape off the installed windows and spray up to it, or spray it all and deal with install and fine tuning after?

For the windshield, I used 3M edging tape..

It's a plastic masking tape with a an 1/8" hard edge that slips under the weather strip and pries it up to you cn shoot underneath

As for the sunroof, I opened it fully and stuffed a piece of cardboard in its place.

After masking the bottom completely, I just pushed the cardboard down as I sprayed around it

 

[jfz80]

lots of liner options and many of em documented here. Might have some good success searching "lined" "liner" etc for more hits.

My favorite is still the U-pol or raptor liner. avail for 100 bux with 4 cans and the schutz gun via ebay.
Lots of folks use Al's Liner which I believe is a roll on application.

Sorry no pics of either on my cpu but plenty on here in 80s tech.
GLTHFJ60 did his whole 60 body in the white raptor liner and MSGrunt did his 80 with it in green.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

My favorite is still the U-pol or raptor liner. avail for 100 bux with 4 cans and the schutz gun via ebay.
Lots of folks use Al's Liner which I believe is a roll on application.

I have both Raptor and Al's on mine

And Al's is usually sprayed on with a texture gun, but can be rolled on as well

I can get an Al's kit for $99 bucks, but the hopper gun is another $21, so it's just a little more expensive than the Raptor kit, but the gun is very much worth the extra bucks

 

[LINUS]

Does the hood stay up with just the OE lift assist cylinders, or does the added weight of liner make you guys need a prop rod or whatever to keep the hood up? McMaster Carr sell lifts with a higher rate any of you are using (like the tailgate lifter fix)?

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Does the hood stay up with just the OE lift assist cylinders, or does the added weight of liner make you guys need a prop rod or whatever to keep the hood up? McMaster Carr sell lifts with a higher rate any of you are using (like the tailgate lifter fix)?

Bed liner isn't nearly as heavy as people think it is lol

Stock hood and hatch struts work just fine

A one gallon Raptor kit with four 1 liter mixing bottles, one 1 liter activator can and shutz gun weighs in at only 13 lbs. and will actually get lighter as it's aerated

The kit is more than enough to do a full sized truck bed (I actually did a Tundra bed using only 3 of the 4 liter bottles)

That being said, Linex and other hotspray type bed liners tend to be a bit heavier than the DIY kits

 

[kidglove13]

My linex probably weighs about 25 lbs or so I would guess

I only did the sides up to the windows and the hood area

No roof or rear hatch did not see the point

Plus insurance paid for mine and that is all I could get done with the insurance money

And my old ass hood struts do not hold the hood up to heavy for them

Ask me how I know this

My rig is no where near as pretty as Snake's rig, but I actually use mine off road

 

[mickeyt]

Snake, who made your rear bumper?

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Snake, who made your rear bumper?

Chris @ Hefty Fabworks (they're just wings)

 

[Tenzig Norgay]

Thanks for the 3m edging tape info snake, thats exactly the product I was looking for.

Still haven't got around to this yet, funds are short. Think I'll do all the work, and maybe spray it myself with Al's. It looks pretty good, and could probably save myself a grand.

Fabick can still do the project, but the person that sprayed my runner is no longer there, and they were a bit confused at how to do around the windshield and all, so I knew they hadn't done anything like it. I just got to get around to it and do it