 What's happening YouTube thanks for tuning back into the channel today right here with me the rust belt mechanic So we got the Duramax sitting back here in the background again And we're not going to be fixing anything today But we're going to be going over the one year slightly over one year anniversary of putting the raptor Bedliner on the truck lots of people have been asking a lot of questions about it So I kind of wanted to rehash it I'm getting tired of hitting copy and paste for that old video, but it's up over a hundred and eleven thousand views now Which is kind of crazy. I never expected it to get that kind of views on it So we're going to go over it see what I think about it How well it's held up and see what you guys think on how well the raptor bedliner is done So pretty much one year ago. I decided to do the bedliner here on the truck I wanted to do the entire truck. So what did I do at first? I didn't decide to go with the raptor bedliner first thing I did I went down to a company called linex who does Professional spray-on bed liners. They also do whole vehicles and everything It's pretty much a totally different process from what this one is But it seems to be a lot thicker and a little bit more I guess robust at the time is what I kind of thought wouldn't got a quote on that one And they ended up quoting me almost five grand to do this truck 4,800 bucks is what they quoted me to do this entire truck in this color Exactly how we see it but in their version of the linex They're kind of liner to it. So the difference in that one is they there's this more of a rubberized material It's sprayed on at a couple hundred degrees. So they have to have these specialty guns, especially the equipment It's shot in a special booth for it. So I can see why the stuff is going to cost so much Whereas this one it is chemical process. It's hardened with a hardener put into the Mixture and it is hardened by itself over the next 48 hours after you spray it on So I like that about it and the cost of it Tell you the truth this whole cost right here with materials is only going to cost right around 300 320 bucks And that's out the door done. That's your materials spent on this truck So if you do it yourself and you're able to do that kind of stuff without the help of anyone It's a really cheap great option So what we ended up doing we used three kits from this thing. We ended up buying it on amazon So it's about a hundred bucks a kit 300 bucks total in kits three kits 12 points to be able to paint this entire truck What we ended up doing we tested it on a whole lot of surfaces And I definitely recommend that you guys do that one because of the different kind of textures and tendencies that you might get In spraying at different distances different pressures things like that So what I ended up doing with ours or with mine is we ended up shooting quite a few different things and we ended up Deciding on shooting it at 80 psi Now the instructions do not tell you to shoot it at that pressure They tell you to test on a whole different things, but that's not what they tell you So in each bottle you guys are going to put into The bottle your tint. I ended up doing this one the exact same color That the truck was before so I didn't have to do the door jams or in between the cab and the bed All those silly little areas like that. I didn't have to do so I ended up doing That one you add two ounces of tint To each bottle and that's just standard paint tint just regular stuff that you guys can get at any paint store two ounces of that in it We ended up adding two ounces of urethane thinner just a standard urethane thinner that they also have at a paint shop Into each bottle That just to give it a nice even consistent tone If we didn't put that urethane thinner into it It ended up being a little bit more globby a little bit thicker Took a little bit harder longer to harden. So We ended up using some of the thinner for that one and then Just ended up shooting it at like 80 psi instead of I think the bottle recommended like 45 to 50 somewhere around there I liked how it looked the nice even consistency at shooting it at this pressure At that point we taped off the truck just like you would any other paint job We taped off all the wheel wells the wheels everything underneath of it Inside the hood area We did we didn't do any of the jams So I didn't have to worry about any of that or taping off the interior portion and not in between the cab of the bed So we didn't have to pull that one either Got all of that ready for paint and we did put a scuff onto it. We used like 80 grit and then 130 grit to give it some what of a I guess material to be able to stick on to Now the other thing that I would recommend in some harder areas Raptor u-pull does sell a version of like a adhesion promoter Comes in a little spray can rattles on I would recommend to do that if you guys aren't able to get into all those little nooks crannies and crevices Anything to help the promotion of the adhesion into those nooks and crannies Definitely recommend that one Then the kit itself does come with the actual gun each one of those bottles that you put in You put all your stuff into it shake it all up really good for at least two minutes And then the gun actually comes in the kit the bottle attaches into the gun Your aeronautical attaches onto that and you're shooting We ended up shooting at between 14 to 16 inches away like to stick right around 14 inches away From the material from the surface nice even strokes just as you would be painting a car Nice even lines all the way across Overlapping right around 20 20 25 overlap as we were going down on the panels That ended up turning out just about the best for what I was looking for in this one Let's look and see at the consistency of how it still turned out Yeah, I had the hood up I had a couple people in the shop googling over the hsp stuff that we did They saw the last video that I did showing a lot of their Their piping stuff and how well it turned out. So yep there was that one But we're going to see if we can get some good close-in shots and see How well this durable liner is holding up. This is the raptor bed liner We ended up spraying this one just over a year ago now So you guys can see how well everything is held up Not really much of any chips or anything like that. So i'm going to point out here real quick just because I know where it's at and this is what happened My son hit it with the handle of the baseball bat and it's in a really indiscreet area And this is the only thing that's been chipped so far Is right there in that area. So I am super happy about that. You can't even see it when you're standing up here at a regular level Yeah, you can't tell The only other negative thing that I ended up coming up with after this year is right in here at the edge of the bed Let's look at this one Right along here in this area You guys can see how that has gone from the raptor liner to the chipped off area Where you guys can see kind of shiny paint in there and that's where I'm talking about that adhesion promoter Any of these surfaces that get really hard hit or anything make sure the scuffing is really good And then also apply some of that adhesion promoter into some of those areas Over here on the other side you can see where it kind of has been doing the same thing But not nearly as much and I'm not really worried about it because I'm also going to be Doing a fresh spray in liner Here in the whole bed of the truck. I've got some areas here on the bottom You guys can see there that's kind of Coming up some thinner areas here on the tailgate So I think we're going to do the entire bed liner on top of it and at that same time I think i'm going to do the upper rails the black color Out to the edge of what would be a normal rail cover. We'll be doing that one in the liner So the other thing when I did the mirrors and the suspension parts I showed you that I did the raptor liner on these parts as well when I did them But I what I didn't say was that we actually ended up spraying these a little bit different Uh, you guys know with the stance game with these trucks these wheels stick out quite a long ways outside of the wheel wells here So they're throwing stuff up all the time So I wanted to give these a little bit better chance of not having so much rock chips So we sprayed these a little bit different. Let's look a little bit closer compared to the other paint job So now you guys can see the standard Texture here On the entire truck and then you look up here at the texture On the mirrors and the suspension parts are going to be just like this one You see it's not as I guess thin course. It's a little bit larger grains That's because this stuff is about twice as thick We did two coats on this one and we didn't put any thinner on this one either I wanted to give this the thicker coat to it I don't know if it's almost got a little bit more sheen to it But that could be because of the consistency. It's not so much as the the sandpaper Smaller grain consistency like the rest of the bed is or the rest of the truck is but it's more of this I guess smooth Texture to it. It's kind of hard without actually feeling and seeing it But like I said, this stuff is about twice as thick as everything else on the truck And I did that in these two areas because this is the biggest hit spots on the entire truck between that and then The suspension parts down underneath as well So if we can get a look at that one The bds suspension parts they are also done in that thicker style because you know Big hits all the time from little rocks and they they go through a lot more abuse And even there on the suspension parts no chips Nothing at all yet coming off of those. So I am super impressed by that one And also on these mirrors. We're not seeing any chips on this one yet either Top and bottom. It's it's all pretty even on there. I I'm really impressed with how well those have held up The other question that I get most often is wow, why would you do that? It adds so much weight to your truck really now, let's just think it about the Actual physical properties of this when all of this raptor liner gets shipped to you It's like 27 pounds right around there for the three different kits Shipped even with all the packaging and everything the cans that everything comes in it's like 27 pounds So with that and the two ounces in each bottle of the The thinner and the tint that you put into each one of these cans It's not really adding anything over what that normal weight would be. So on average I think you're adding about 30 pounds of weight to the truck Not going to really affect anything in the way of fuel mileage due to weight on this vehicle aerodynamics wise I'm not an aero scientist or anything like that So I'm not going to be able to provide any kind of information on air flow over this kind of stuff Obviously, it's going to be a little bit Rougher texture and air wouldn't go through it as well But again when you're talking about an 8,000 pounds 7,000 pound truck Don't think it's going to really affect anything that that much or anything to measure for that amount Bear with me guys It's like 95 degrees and yeah, I'm sweating. I'm not somebody who actually sweats amazingly, but I'm now sweating It's like humid is all get out it rained and it's like 97 degrees still So going into the last question that I get most often is how do you clean this? Isn't it such a pain in the butt to clean really? No, it's not it is different It definitely is different. So the biggest thing that I have to you guys is to say on the prep side of things Obviously if you guys any get any kind of bug things on the front You guys are going to have a lot more in the way of things to clean up The bug splatters they do tend to get into those grooves But they are much easier managed if you guys use some kind of spray Into the actual paint ahead of time When you do that it actually creates a somewhat of a barrier What I like to use is like a Lucas quick mist or something along those lines Just an easy spray on wax that you can spray on before truck shows or after you get done Cleaning the truck something along those lines when you do that it leaves a nice even little coat on there And it's going to make it really easy for you to clean off all the bugs the splatter the road debris Anything that you might run into on the front end it ends up coming off quite a bit easier Now in the way of we'll say aerial debris or bird turds you might call it When you get a bird turd here on the hood and just like today it's like the middle of summer It's like 97 degrees out and that thing bakes in because you don't have time to wash this thing every week every other week Whatever it is. So it ends up baking into those things. So you might end up getting a couple of little stains into it Now that's not something you need to worry about. It's not going to be there permanently But there are some things that you do use and I would say not to use The biggest thing that I would say not to use was be like the magic erasers I've seen it on other channels and that's why I've never done it to mine But I would recommend that you guys not do that from what I've seen It takes a lot of the shine away from the vehicle Those magic erasers are pretty much like little sanding discs really fine And it actually makes little scuffs within the surface of it So it makes it look even more dull than it already is which that's something you guys don't want and I would say that might Hinder in the uv department when it comes time to Talking about the diminishing of the paint quality or dulling over time. You don't want to see that one either The stuff that I use most often is actually just simple green I get it in a concentrated form for work at the shop I dilute it down and I'll put it in a spray bottle any of those big old bird turds that get baked into it You spray them onto the spot Wipe them in with a rag maybe a little bit of a sponge sponges seem to get down into the crevices a little bit easier Work it in there and then end up spraying it off and it all comes out just fine It doesn't leave any kind of extra residue to it. It doesn't take down the shine. It doesn't make it fade I've not had any issues while using that and I've definitely used a lot of simple green on this Because there's a lot of birds that like to shit on this big old truck So we've covered most of the questions that I have gotten from you and all of the answers that I've been able to Hopefully give to you as well We've gone through those and then pretty much the last thing is Why would you do that to your truck? Why that's the most comments that I ever get on that video Now This paint job is one of the things where you either love it or you absolutely hate it And if that definitely holds true on the internet now in person, it's a whole different ball game I like taking this truck to truck shows all the time. I do it probably about every other weekend I like getting out. I like enjoying and talking to people about it as well So when I get the chance to talk to people about it, I'm going to guarantee you this thing Gets more looks and more conversation about the paint job on it Then we'll say most other 69 kameros with perfect $15,000 paint jobs to them Because this is more unique. I'm not going to say it's one of a kind I'm not going to say I'm the only one who's ever done it because I'm not but in this area You definitely don't see it the guys who have actually done this one across the street Help me do this paint job. They've done like five or six more of these since then Just because they saw the video and they wanted to know where I got it done So there are a couple other ones even around in this area that are cruising around with The raptor liner jobs just like this one, but in general at these car shows There is so much more conversation in the way of how we sprayed it What kind of stuff we used is it line x what is it? So I enjoy being able to talk to people and that is one of the biggest conversation starters about this truck Not not the seven inch suspension not lifted sitting on 37s. Not the big old loud diesel exhaust It's the paint job. It's the raptor liner that draws people in 90 of the time Well, that's about all the information that I have for you today here on the raptor bedliner that I've put onto my truck If you guys have any other questions comments or anything about that I am more than happy to answer any of those that I have If you guys have an opinion that says I hate your truck and I hate what it looks like That's good for you. I hear it quite often you feel free to put that in there if you want, but trust me I've heard at a time or two Thanks for tuning in today guys If you haven't already make sure you hit that subscribe button Make sure you turn on that bell notification for when I come out with awesome new content like this one Got all kinds of cool stuff coming up as well as some tool content We've got some more duramax things coming up here in the near future. I'm talking with a couple of companies So really exciting things make sure you stay tuned in for that. Appreciate it. Thank you. And as always you guys stay awesome