Finally De-flaring the LX450

[DBWood]

Looks Great! I have been playing with the idea of doing my whole HDJ, but I am thinking this looks so much better...

 

[Nay]

Nice work! Al's has some really good looking colors/textures. This stuff unfortunately holds road dirt around the rocker, but it sure is nice looking!

 

[sdnative]

Looks great! I have to say I am not a big fan of the bedliner look, but you did a fantastic job. Where's your sliders?

 

[VCCruzr]

Looks great! I have to say I am not a big fan of the bedliner look, but you did a fantastic job. Where's your sliders?

With the recent edition of the 1" body lift, the sliders sit down too low. I have to adjust the holes in the mounting brackets.

 

[Land Shark]

Very Nice man! One of my next projects is to do some type of bed liner on my flares. I mean de-flares

 

[nmhunt]

That really came out nice, very impressed. I have been thinking about doing something with mine, this looks like a possibility.

 

[VCCruzr]

Thanks for all the compliments, !!!

 

[Wheelingnoob]

That looks a lot better than I thought it would.

You said the Al's liner comes with the pigment? Does that mean one could custom color there Al's liner if wanted?

Thinking about doing this to my LX but want it to be as stock color as possible.

 

[Bluetribal]

lookin great! one suggestion: paint the bezel on the front black to match the door handles.

Second that, it would looks sharp with the grill blacked out.

Great work Derrick! Attention to detail as always!

 

[LandCrusher'70]

Looks great Derrick!

Looks great! I have to say I am not a big fan of the bedliner look, but you did a fantastic job.

I lined mine because (IMO) it looks a hellava lot better than scratched, gouged and dented panels.

 

[VCCruzr]

Looks great Derrick!



I lined mine because (IMO) it looks a hellava lot better than scratched, gouged and dented panels.

Thanks Reid, it was your rig that I saw that convinced me to go with those line.

 

[Walking Eagle]

I don't understand why people are worried about rust from the holes. They didn't rust with a plastic clip in them why would they rust now? But it's not to late to cover them from the inside with tape if you want.

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First did mine 4 years ago, when I just redid it I removed a bunch of the bed liner to do some mods / fixes, and exposed the holes again, none of them had rusted, and I didn't take any special care with them or with washing.

 

[toolmanwatson1]

How hard was it to take off after it was sitting on LC?

 

[Walking Eagle]

How hard was it to take off after it was sitting on LC?

a notted wire wheel on a grinder took it off o.k., but you'll burn down to bare metal when you remove it, it's messy too, but possible.

 

[Bluetribal]

Derrick, I just noticed that you fixed up that dented driver corner pretty good! How about a close-up on that with the liner over it.

 

[Four and a half]

My front left plastic piece was recently ripped off for me. I really like how it looks, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to fix it. I'd prefer to rip off all the cladding and put on oversized fenders, but I'm not sure about filling all those holes.

 

[VCCruzr]

Derrick, I just noticed that you fixed up that dented driver corner pretty good! How about a close-up on that with the liner over it.

I am very happy with what bondo and a little liner can hide, .

Before and after shots:

 

[VCCruzr]

More After Shots

A couple more:

 

[Black Rhino 13]

I've come to believe that doing bedliner on an 80 makes a lot of sense, especially if you use it off-road. It's so much cheaper and lower maintenance than paint.

 

[julstirn]

Nice!