saegernyles

I took my bed off my 2003 f150 a few weekends ago and sanded it all down and painted the frame with 395A metal preserver paint. Here's some pictures.

Stephen3393

how long it take you to do it and im thinkin of rhino lining

blupupher

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Looks good. Did you use some type of media blaster?

Lube up your spare tire carrier while you have easy access to it.

saegernyles

I had about 16 hours in it. It was a pretty fun weekend project. I enjoyed doing it. I was told that rhino lining traps rust in-between causing more of a problem than a cure. But if your truck isn't rusty like mine is here in north east Ohio, it's a whole different story!

M Jon R

I plan on doing this to my truck frame sometime next year when I get some time. I was thinking POR-15 or Rust Bullet and some type of flat black rattle can over it. What was the difficulty level?

saegernyles

The only difficult thing I ran into was trying to pressure wash all the oil off. I had been oil spraying my truck in the years past and I decided I would rather just paint it and be done. So the hardest by far was getting all the oil off! Por15 is the same thing as 395a that I used. 395a is cheaper and only sold by Napa.

berkeleyclassics

Por-15 works really well, but you have to use a primer over the Por-15 before painting the final coat. Did you have to use a primer with the product you used?

saegernyles

You can do either. I chose not to. I just several coats on.

red 97

That looks real good. I use a wire cup on my grinder to remove most of the rust. Then I use Rust Converter from rustoleum or a similar product from loctite. I then topcoat with a rattle can. I have pretty good results. Does anybody have a link to Por-15 or 395a? I am not familiar with those products.

berkeleyclassics

For por-15, it's por-15.com, A lot of information on that site.