Bed wear

Interesting, what do you recommend to do with the tape?

 

Cover the area that is worn out so it doesn’t wear any more. It is a temporary repair but some people are not comfortable using fiberglass and metal or performing repairs that involve cutting into the wheel wells or the bed.

 

Teflon

 

Only sticks to surfaces when baked in, like any other surface coating. The spray bottles that claim to have it are BS.

 

Flat bed​

 

Bedliner, tape, epoxy, etc. will do nothing for that in terms of strength, especially if under use.

Fiberglass is the best repair, but will have the same problem when you abuse it again.

1) Easiest option is to not haul stuff that rubs the wells. Or get a trailer.

2) would be to glass it up inside and out, then Monstaliner the whole bed (if you want a consistent look) or the wells if that's good enough for you. Then make formed aluminum caps to fit over the corners and down the top ridge of the well. Rivet them into your newly reinforced well. It doesn't need to be super thick, just durable.

3) most complex, but most permenant solution if you intend to continue big hauls

To add to this, if you could cut out a wheel well from a wrecked truck in the yard, you could downsize it and mount it from the underside of your well as a base with a good shape to work with.

 

I’m not talking about spray Teflon, I’m talking about Teflon block/sheet..

 

FlexSeal

 

Ya, some people should have their man cards confiscated. Given that his problem stems from slightly too little space I’d cut those areas out and reattach them 1” farther apart(1/2” each side). If the wheels are too close, space them farther out.

 

Are you loading old sleds with metal skis? None of mine with plastic skis did that and on my old 94 Arctic Cat I replaced the original metal skis with plastic ones for under $150 if I remember right.

 

nope, plastic skis