Great write up! I, like you, was also a little too ambitious and put a hole in the front passenger floor. The chisel caught one of the ribs. The product turned out great! The greatest investment is the last pic! I'd much rather spend $1000 on a compressor that I can use for multiple projects (like installing my wood floors) and $150ish on a bed iiner! Another for Raptor Liner.

 

This is my first post and i feel like telling y'all how great this looks is worthy of losing my forum virginity...

 

nice pics chris... I'm curious, but was there any kind of filler material in the oval holes just behind the door latches on the side of the inside, as seen in the first and third pic? In my jeep, there is yellow foam insulation, and I'm not sure how painstaking it would be to take it all out, or if I should just cut some sort of a cover plate to size and glue it over top the hole

 

Thank you for the great write up, you convinced me that even though I had no experience in doing this stuff I would be able to pull this off. I'm glad you did because the results are awesome

I wanted to give one helpful tip to anyone about to do this based off of my experience I had with mixing the hardener and bed liner. Make sure when you are adding the hardener to the bottles to be diligent about not getting any hardener on the outside of the bottle near the cap. In the time it takes you to spray one bottle the hardener will react with the plastic bottle and basically glue itself to the gun. When that happened to me I wrenched on the bottle and eventually got it to come loose (breaking the feeder tube of the gun in the process) If that does happen to you don't panic like i did and throw things around. If it does happen, I taped the tube together with duct tape and it held up for the other 2 coats thankfully.

 

glad to see my thread getting a good amount of views and use. i hope i gave some you of you guys the confidence to take the leap and do this relatively cheap mod and i hope your results turned out like mine.......or better.

on a side note i got rid of the jeep about a year ago, i was doing too much driving and the gas was killing me. i was able to sell it for much much more than i owed (i got almost what i paid for it new) and moved on to something a little more fuel friendly. soon i will be buying another unlimited (use) but this time it will be just a toy!.


congrats to all that performed the diy and they all have turned out great.

shaun h

 

When I did mine, it was all about the prep plus with the sound deadner gone it looks and has held up amazing

 

I tackled the interior bedliner project this summer using the U-POL Raptor Liner kit and pretty much following step-by-step the original post in this thread by awdspider... a great write-up with lots of good tips and I'm very happy with the end result!

The quality of the finished product is really dependent on the amount of prep work put in. I spent a couple hours each evening over the course of a week removing the seats (other than the driver's seat), removing carpet, chiseling out the goop, sanding, and cleaning. Taping and masking with plastic took a good 8 hours one day and a couple more the following day over the steering wheel, dash, and windshield (I'm glad I draped the plastic over the sides and over the fenders as there was overspray on the plastic afterwards). Then the following day the spraying goes very fast... less than an hour to do a full coat and an hour in between the 2 full coats that I got out of the 4 bottles in the kit.

Rather than go into too many details, I posted 60 pictures in my album (the pictures may be sorted backwards):
https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/memb...r-liner-11969/