Por15 RCI slider prep

After a long boat ride up the inside passage from Seattle to Alaska I have finally gotten around to prepping and installing my RCI sliders. First I deep cleaned them with marine clean. Followed up by sanding. Then wiped clean. Stoked with metal prep for 30 min followed by heavy water rinse then let dry over night. Next day I coated with two light coats of por15 waited till first coat was lightly tacky then applied second coat. Followed same procedure for Rust-oleum professional flat black enamel on top of lightly tacky por15. Applied about 3-3.5 light coats of the Rust-oleum. Look good for now. Sure hope my prep was good. I spent a good half day on prep and was pretty picky about it.

 

Looking good, still trying to figure out what direction to go with the coating once I get my sliders.

 

Nice.!!

 

Looks good.

 

I went back and forth so many times. I almost just put some self etching primer followed by Rust-oleum. I have heard great things about por15, and really bad. I ultimately decided to go this route based on the fact that I don’t do any major rockcrawling just want protection from the few times that I wished I had them. So I don’t think I will be scraping through the por15 but it might help keep the gravel roads from tearing up just strait rattle can paint. I guess time will tell. Hope it doesn’t all peel off in a big sheet.

 

That looks really good!

 

Thanks! First time I’ve really done any painting like this. I am crossing my fingers that it was done right. The Rust-oleum professional was super easy and smooth to spray on. I really wish I didn’t use cheap brushes however because I got a bit of the brush bits stuck in the paint. I should have used foam.

 

Yeah I'm still going through the same thing, back and forth. One day it's this, and then the next day it's this, until I read about something else. Definitely keep us posted on how they hold up.

 

Def. will. I drive a lot of dirt roads and have ko2s without mudflaps so I am pretty curious.

 

Thanks for the helpful write-up.

 

I did the same, except I waited until the POR15 was completely dry, then I scuffed it up a bit with sandpaper and then used rustoleum. It's held up to all the elements except for when I hit a tree with it

 

Do the salt every road in Alaska into a Himalayan salt block? My fear about getting sliders (which sounds like neither of us are doing major crawling anyway) is them getting rusted out while the rest of my truck stays nice and clean from the undercoating I have on it. I'll be curious as to your results after a season of use.

 

If I were to do mine I’d definitely powdercoat them. A lot more durable than rattle can.

 

No salt on our roads up here due to environmental reasons.. which is great. Things still rust as I live on the ocean and it rains all the time as well. I will inspect regularly. I drive on dirt roads daily. I put 3 coats of Rust-oleum professional enamel on and should be a lot easier to touch up than powder coat when it chips...and it will chip.

 

Powder coat all day. Touch ups with this. Worked for me really well. Recommended by RCI themselves as well.

 

Ya. I was going to do the same thing. I even bought there self etch primer for after it was totally dry. I called their tech. Dept. And they told me to top coat while lightly tacky and I could skip the scuff and etch prime step. I went back and forth on just letting it harden up completely but I was running out of time. I guess both methods are correct it just depends on when u topcoat. Hope it holds up. I love the way they look and def glad I went the slider route.

 

I almost went that route but was on a tight deadline to get sliders to the boat for the trip north and couldn’t wait for rci to powder coat. Everyone around here quoted me 350 for the pair. I couldn’t justify that so I wen this route. Off it fails I will pay to have it blasted and powdered. Hopefully it won’t fail.