Hurculiner this week

I think it might be too cold. Do you have a heated garage to work out of? You need to have the Jeep metal at the right temperature, not just the surrounding air. If doing it indoors consider the fumes and extended drying time.

I dont know about the time for a entire tub to dry but I Just did my new bumper in herculiner this past weekend and It came out great....I put on about three coats starting late friday night...letting It dry Into saturday...2nd coat early saturday morning and then 3rd coat around mid afternoon when It was about semi-dry...I did this under an outdoor porch because of the rains all weekend but It came out perfect.....

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Im planning on hurculining my tub this week. Anyone have any tips to make this go smootly? Im probobly just going to roll it on and touch it up with a brush. I can picture myself wiping off alot of overspray if i used a spray gun. Let me know what you guys think.

Ed-

IMHO I'd reconsider rolling it...it's quicker, much less work to spray it with an undercoating gun, and it seemed to lay down better than when Paul rolled it on his XJ interior. When I did mine I cranked the regulator down to ~60psi and the liner is so heavy that there's virtually no overspray. Being the lazy bastard that I am I did very little masking and still came out with only a bit of liner on one of the kick panel plastics. It'll likely take a _full_ day to dry enough in this weather, though. You're welcome to use my garage and compressor/gun if you'd like, we just need to move the YJ.

--Ian

Quote from "2000sahara"

Dont think temp will be a problem, the web site says any temp works it will just take a little longer to dry. But the spraying sounds tempting. Would a regular spray gun work?
Ed

Nah, you need a large orifice ...the good old $6 harbor freight undercoating gun works best. I've got one if you need to borrow it.
I wonder what their definition of "a little" longer to dry is. I let mine sit for 24hrs before starting to bolt the interior stuff back in and was really careful for a couple days as it still seemed tender...of course I did use almost an entire gallon in an MJ cab.

--Ian

Is a 15 gallon compressor good enough or do you typically need more like with regular paint?

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Is a 15 gallon compressor good enough or do you typically need more like with regular paint?

It'd likely be sufficient...might be running darn near continuously, though. I found that spraying at ~60psi gave the best results so the lower pressure should help out.

--Ian

Quote from "2000sahara"

Id like to put a nice thick coating on it. When can i come get the gun? Or better when can i use your garage? everything is torn out but i can easily throw a seat in it to drive over. Thanks Ian
Ed

Your choice...I'll be home after work (~5pm). If you want to use the garage it's not an issue, it'll give me an excuse to procrastinate some more on my rocker panels.

--Ian