What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Anyone have any thought's or opinions on Rust oleum roll or stray in bed liner? I know its not linex but its also not $450.

 

The Rust-Oleum bedliner is quite possibly the worst spray/roll on bedliner. Flaky and dusty feeling and chips off easily despite good prep. I like Rust-Oleum too, but they can't do bed liner for some reason. For cheap its hard to go wrong with the Duplicolor Bed Armor which also comes as roll or spray.

 

I have seen both on several trucks and have never seen one that looked good.

 

I sprayed my bumper with it when I had it and it faded pretty bad pretty fast, I even clear coated it. Can’t comment on the roll on stuff.

I’d stay away from hercliner too, rolled that on my stock bumpers and it faded fast and it couldn’t handle rocks from the road being thrown at it, starting to get tore up.

 

I think I’ll pick up a door from a junk yard, 95-04 had the same doors right? I’m not sure how I’ll go about bashing out the rocker panel. Sucks that I don’t have anything but liability on it.

I think they would have made it worse by messing with the frame possibly. Who knows.

 

Yeah 95-04 are all same door wise. I think sliders would have save you. I bounced on both mine in my rollover and it didn't mess with the frame.

 

If it helps at all I did basically the same thing a couple years ago, but mine was either go off the hill or boof a snow plow....



I didn’t really have a choice though, just happened that way....

 

Would have at least helped lol. I can’t catch a break. I was gonna take my bumper and bed rack to powder coat tomorrow too. Looks like that’ll have to wait.

 

It can be massaged out, the door that is, because the paint hasn't cracked. For the rocker.............well...its gonna have to get sanded down to bare metal in order to put some tabs on it and pull it out.

 

best rattle can stuff is the Duplicolor bedliner spray.

However!

there are two versions, one is a nicer lighter finish and one is a gloppy crusty finish. Make sure you get the right can. Don't get the Bed Armor stuff. Get the Truck Coating spray.

another option if you want a great product for the cost is Raptor liner.

 

Bummer! Sorry to hear man. I know the feeling, similar to the situation I had last year where I ended up in a tree on the trail - kicked out by hitting a stump on the other side with my slider.

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They don't sell the truck coating spray anymore, discontinued. The bed armor formula has changed too, I used it recently and it came out great. I tried to get the truck coating originally, but it's dead.

 

huh. Didn't know that. I just bought 3 cans of it and sprayed my new bumper with it so..id say they cam to a happy medium between the two. Seems just like the stuff I sprayed in the past.

 

Finished cutting, sanding, and plastic welding my Toywerx grill for the new winch. So. Many. Hours.



Also got my rock lights in. Just gotta wire em up now.

 

I was pissed cause like you I had bad bed armor experience in the past, but when the the guy said i couldn't even special order the blue can "truck bed coating" I decided to try the bed armor again and was pleaseantly surprised

 

yeah it went on good for me. Put 3 cans on the one side just on monday. Gonna flip it tonight and do another 2-3 cans.

 

Rock lights?

 

Door is pretty trashed. Might just get a new one. As for the rocker I might see if I can find someone to pull it out and then I may proceed with bed lining the whole truck.

Can I just swap all my automatic window stuff into a manual window door?

 

yes you can. I did that. Kind of a PITA but totally doable.

 

So as I ordered a new u-joint I figured I'd get some spare LBJs... and since Gunny is gone, I just ordered straight from camelback's site. They just called and said that 4334039436 is for a 2WD Taco, and that neither come with bolts. You pretty sure on those part numbers and the bolt situation?