just put duraliner in my truck last weekend. I took a long time to do it. scuff everything, then scuff more. wiped it out with acetone, then wiped again. rolled it on taking my time and taped off areas not wanting covered.

my opinion is it looks great compared to a eight year old scuffed up bed. as good as linex/rhino etc. no. i mean it looks as good right now but not as thick. will it last? we'll see. we put a linex in my stepdads SD it was awesome but spendy.

i was like the op wanted something inexpensive to improve the looks of the truck and maybe get a couple more years out of it. besides i enjoy doing it myself. i would do it again.

like anything else take your time, do it the best you can. I have seen these put in in one afternoon and within a couple days the owner wanted it out. bad prep will do that.

 

I am impressed, looks damn good to me. How old is that job?

Looks like a pro job for now. I have 2 1/2 gallons Herculiner I purchased to do the interior of my '77 and my small utility trailer. I have a drop in under lip bedliner over top of anextra 11 gage steel floor in the '77 bed so never really planned to do the bed. I'll probably still do my utility trailer, maybe the top of my mtrcycle cargo trailer as well, looks that good.

Those pictures look as good as the spray in liner in my '07.

 

Herculiner has little bits of rubber in it, that's what gives it the texture. What you don't get is texture uniformity for obvious reasons. High pressure bedliners have no bits of rubber and the they typically have a uniform texture. Low pressure spray-on bedliners don't have uniformity either.

I'm not being critical, I'm just explaining what happens.

Here's sort of a side by side comparison.

Herculiner:


High pressure:


Low pressure:

 

That high pressure looks most like my Linex in the '07.

Looking at them all together, I see what you mean by texture. In the bed of a truck, either would be OK as long as they were durable.

Question .... will they adhear to fibreglass like the top of my small motorcycle "Cyclemate" cargo trailer? I use it once, maybe twice a year behind the trike on trips, it's color matched red. Last year, the paint peeled off in big pieces. It was a poor paint job the prior owner haddione, a two part paint and the tinted top coat just bubbled and hardened, cracked, and flaked off.

It would look good with a black pebble grain texture, and then I could lay jackets or helmets on it at rest stops without fear of scratching ... and it'ld be cheaper than the cost of taking all that paint off and repainting it.

Just the roof or lid, it's maybe 3 feet wide x 5 feet long. Has a polished rack that would accent the top well.

 

The answer is yes. If you do it, I suggest you tell the dealer to apply a light texture. Also, I highly recommend LINE-X Xtra so it won't fade.

Police cargo carriers with LINE-X.




Motorcycle with LINE-X.


Motorcycle shoes with LINE-X.

 

In this forum, you are not supposed to feed your kids, put gas in your tank or anything else, but save for a Linex or Rhino-Liner. Nothing else will even come close as far as most on here are concerned. If you want to see a Herculiner that has held up for six years, (with it being used BTW), go to my album and take a look at my bed. I for one am sick of everybody saying that they are not any good. If you've got the $$$, by all means, go have your truck sprayed with Linex, if you don't, and want to consider a "DO IT YOURSELF" roll-on bedliner, by all means do it yourself!

 

I've used Herculiner on an entire truck and for bumpers.

It looks great at first but will fade and thin out over time. I like it but it wouldn't be my first choice for a bedliner.

 

Just my opinion, but why put a cheap bedliner product (no matter what the brand) in a $30K truck. I realize not everyone has a $30K truck. It's like buying a Yamaha amp and then going to Walmart to buy speakers.

 

Mine has not faded a bit in 6 years, but I used the UV protector when I did it.

 

Well, I can tell you why I did. I'm on disability, which is not much $ for those of you that don't know about it. When I was making truck payments, I did not have any extra $$$ to pay for "extravagant" items for my truck, or anything else for that matter. I had used Herculiner before on different trucks, and found it on sale, with a rebate besides, so that is why I used a so called "cheap" bedliner in my truck. I'm not terribly sorry that you don't like it.

 

Thanks for the pics of the trunks and bike covered in Line X.

I did recently see an older IH Scout 345 done in bright red Line X coming up the interstate, looked mighty good.

I bought the 2 1/2 gallons (2 gallon kits, 2 extra quarts) Herculiner that I have at K-Mart a few uears ago when it was closing here locally, got it for about 1/4 - 1/3 normal price, never been opened, I rotate and shake the cans every so often. Still feels liquidy.

Was goping to do inside cab and bed of my '77 F150 4x4. Now that I'm going to sell the '77 and all the ten + years worth of collected parts, etc ... gonna use the Herculiner on my open bed utility trailer for sure, that'll kill a gallon, maybe an extra quart.

May try it on my good trailer top mentioned above, but the more I look at the Linex, it probably would look better there with the finer texture. Might let them do the whole trailer body, be far cheaper than two part candy color, do it in red bottom, black top.

I also might use Herculiner inside that cargo trailer rather than let it harden in the can, or maybe in the rear fender wells of the '07 FX4?

I could build a simple cargo / tool box from exterior treated plywood to go under my Undercover bed cover and give it a coating?

I was thinking it'ld go to waste, now I'm wondering if I have enough?

Liked the shoes!

 

2 X posted

 

Herculiner is MORE expensive than LINE-X and it way less durable. Yep, really!

Let's say standard black LINE-X in a short bed truck is $450. There's about 8 to 9 gallons of LINE-X in there (4 gallons resin and 4 gallons iso). So, $450/8 = $56.25/gallon and that includes labor and a warranty.

A one gallon kit of Herculiner is about $90. Herculiner is 28% solvents (that evaporate away) and 72% solids. So, one gallon of actual Herculiner solids would cost $115.20. So, generally speaking, Herculiner is DOUBLE the price of LINE-X.

 

And I thought the invention of the CD would get rid of broken records.

 

thrdrcr, who started the thread, is new to the forum. It's not uncommon for newbies to ask aged old questions.

Welcome to the forum thrdrcr!