Madness to my method? Monstaliner... (1 Viewer)

[Chungas Revenge]

I hate diamond plate as well as bed liner

Well your really going to like my "hunting Mule" I have an OEM mat with the prerequisite hole at the drivers heel. I've been following the "Unobtainium" thread with interest...Rolled my OE mat up and put it away for the time being. You would probably sacrifice a chicken over my tub, it has loads of "Character"...The down the road tub resto I refer to, will most likely be an aluminum tub....Just because.. Rust never sleeps and I'm getting to old to chase it.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

Might as well put the damn bezel on upside down while you're at it. Oh and paint the roof black. Come on, don't stop at the bedliner and diamond plate. As they say, go big or go home!

I was think'en "cammo" roof...



I do like the "Red Rocker"......Don't paint it all shiny...leave the P-A-T-I-N-A.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

As Pete from O' Brother Where Art Thou said, DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE!

 

[Chungas Revenge]

DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE!

Ulysses Everett McGill:
Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the ******* field or... hell! Take at look at Delmar here as your paradigm of hope.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

I stick to my opinion. NO LINER!

 

[Chungas Revenge]

I stick to my opinion. NO LINER!

Then my friend, I have no other recourse than to call you out (Clint Eastwood music goes here) ....You - Me the "pub" of your choice, last man standing! It's the only way!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Only if the pub has 2 FJ40s parked in front!

 

[40Habits]

I had diamond plate, too - and still have it on the front bib - no excuse to mess the truck up even more

my gripe with the liners is the texture - there's no way you can keep a lined truck clean from the desert dust

I would have no problem with smooth bedliner

Monstaliner is not your typical rubberized roll on bedliner. It is hard and has a smooth easy to clean finish. I hate those rough rubberized bed liners and have seen first hand how water gets underneath and rust but Monstaliner is nothing like them. Not all bedliners are the same!

http://www.monstaliner.com/monstaliner_photos_video.htm

 

[Chungas Revenge]

Only if the pub has 2 FJ40s parked in front!

LoL..I may have to tow mine up! I feel a headache coming on! Crap, is it too late to change the challenge?..Maybe just throw rocks at each other LoL....No? OK, a pub crawl it is!!

 

[White Stripe]

Here is the problem I see with any spray liner on a 40. 40's are built with the panels spot welded together. If you put liner on the interior, moisture can creep up from underneath through the spot welds and creep under the liner causing crap loads of rust. It does it with paint, it would be worse in my opinion with liner, much worse. You could do the underside as well, but you would have to first eliminate any rust between the spot welds before you do that.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

Monstaliner is nothing like them

That's what I am reading...I think the Nay-sayers are basing the "Nay" on past experience with bad liner..

 

[Snowdogyyz]

When I cleaned mine up, I put down a coat of rust bullet, followed by a coat of black paint. Mine is no show truck. Looks decent and should keep inside fairly rust free.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

followed by a coat of black paint.

Good copy on the rust bullet. What type of black paint did you use? Brush/spray?

 

[Snowdogyyz]

I used a chassis black paint and brushed it on. Obviously I wasn't going for a nice finished look, but a durable, rust preventative, easy to touch up look.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

but a durable, rust preventative, easy to touch up look.

That's where I'm at with my hunting mule....Just kick'en the can down the alley with my options!

 

[dc1949]

Not a great deal of desert dust here in the hallowed hills , but I understand exactly what you are alluding to. The old liner was a dirt magnet....Part of the reason I started pulling it up...The reviews I've read on "Monsta" indicate a smoother surface. Henceforth, at least in my little infantry head, easier to clean....Flawed logic?

 

[dc1949]

I have a 73 40 that i will be monsta lining soon. I have used ML before and have been very pleased with the toofness and uv protection it has. Plus in the woods there is zero worries about pin striping. I know ML will do nothing for the value of my 40, but i don't care. I can't see putting a 10 or 15 thousand dollar paint job on it just to scratch it up in the woods. I have already painted my off road trailer and will be painting the 40 the same matching color. I have't come up with any ideas on undercoating it. I live in the deep south where it is hot and muggy and rainy any ideas would be helpful. The truck has a 15' paint job now and the underside is great. 40 is all stock except for 8274 winch and another warn winch on the back of the trailer. I recently installed a vintage air and modified the cooling system with thremo. Controlled exhaust fans to help with cooling in stop and go traffic. Love my fj40.

 

[mtn biker]

I did smurfadelic and white. I love the stuff, however if I was to do it again I would not do white.

 

[White Stripe]

I have a 73 40 that i will be monsta lining soon. I have used ML before and have been very pleased with the toofness and uv protection it has. Plus in the woods there is zero worries about pin striping. I know ML will do nothing for the value of my 40, but i don't care. I can't see putting a 10 or 15 thousand dollar paint job on it just to scratch it up in the woods. I have already painted my off road trailer and will be painting the 40 the same matching color. I have't come up with any ideas on undercoating it. I live in the deep south where it is hot and muggy and rainy any ideas would be helpful. The truck has a 15' paint job now and the underside is great. 40 is all stock except for 8274 winch and another warn winch on the back of the trailer. I recently installed a vintage air and modified the cooling system with thremo. Controlled exhaust fans to help with cooling in stop and go traffic. Love my fj40.

Unfortunately Fj40s didn't use much seam sealer. So rust forms in the seams of the body. If you bedliner a fj40 body then it tends to accelerate rust in the seams because moisture gets trapped. With paint this doesn't happen a near as much. I would just leave the pin stripes from the woods and touch it up with a rattle can if you want.

 

[pb4ugo]

I have a 73 40 that i will be monsta lining soon. I have used ML before and have been very pleased with the toofness and uv protection it has. Plus in the woods there is zero worries about pin striping. I know ML will do nothing for the value of my 40, but i don't care. I can't see putting a 10 or 15 thousand dollar paint job on it just to scratch it up in the woods. I have already painted my off road trailer and will be painting the 40 the same matching color. I have't come up with any ideas on undercoating it. I live in the deep south where it is hot and muggy and rainy any ideas would be helpful. The truck has a 15' paint job now and the underside is great. 40 is all stock except for 8274 winch and another warn winch on the back of the trailer. I recently installed a vintage air and modified the cooling system with thremo. Controlled exhaust fans to help with cooling in stop and go traffic. Love my fj40.

I guess you haven't seen or read about @Chungas Revenge's Mule 2.0. It's a thing of beauty.