Spray On Truck Bedliner - Al's Liner

Another area of concern was to scrape out the original caulking that had dried out and was breaking loose in strips. We re-caulked the bad areas before spraying the Al's Liner in.

We learned this trick while doing a tech story at a Line-X shop. A die-grinder with a 4-inch abrasive wheel was used to cut random patterns all over the beds interior to ensure the Al's Liner would adhere properly.

Here's a more explicit example of the cuts we made into the bed floor to ensure the Al's Liner would bond completely.

Areas in the bed that had either high or low spots were repaired (metal worked) and then finished with the die-grinder. It's good to know that if one ever does dent their bed afterwards, all it takes is a hammer on the other side and the dent can be pounded back out, Al's Liner and all.

Here's everything that comes in the Al's Liner kit. The blue tarps were used to cover (mask) the truck.

Also available from Al's Liner is their special gun for spraying their product.

All that was needed to ready the Al's Liner spray-gun was to attach the hopper (cup) and screw on an air fitting (not included) to the handle of the gun.

Included with Al's Liner kit there is a spray bottle full of primer to be sprayed on fifteen minutes before spraying in the Al's Liner. The test to see if the primer is ready is to touch it and see if it's tacky (not like a blonde with big red lips and fishnets).

To make one-gallon of Al's Liner the one-gallon can marked A serves as the mixing can. We poured the black pigment in first.

Next was the B bottle which was shaken thoroughly before pouring into the mix.

The final step before pouring the Al's Liner into the gun was to mix it thoroughly with a mixer-bit that comes included in Al's kit ... Thanks, Al.

Al's Liner is available in many colors, here's the Gray pigment for an upcoming article on undercoating a '53 Ford F-100.

We determined where we wanted the painted bed to stop and the Al's Liner to begin and then taped it off.

The best way to mask off a straight line such as the bedrails was to stick the masking tape at the front and then pull it tight all the way to the end and then tack it down.

Here's the blue tarp used to mask off the rear of the cab. Notice the area where the '88's Chartreuse has flaked off the white and red below. This means the last shop to paint the truck didn't sand down the white properly and now both colors are flaking off. This was a problem.

Since this was the first time we used Al's Liner and we shot in the dark at 9 p.m. there was one area we missed. Also in the excitement notice the gray in the Al's Liner, this is where we accidently started to mix in the gray instead of the black. All in all, we were really impressed with how easy Al's Liner was to use, and look forward to using it on future projects.