Thanks, I appreciate that!
Tell me more about the Gatorhyde, how does it compare to Line X and Rhino? I have searched on the net and haven't found any recent reviews or comparisons.
GatorHyde was invented in Wagoner and is still produced there as far as I know. I like it because it has a firm rubbery feel and it's not a hard plastic feel like a lot of the bedliner material and it has proven to be very resilient on the sliders just a couple feet off the ground. I've put many miles on a gravel road and I just hit them with a car wash and they still looked new and shiny.
They quoted me $300 for the bedliner and $100 each to prepare and coat the sliders.
They also can do white and I suspect different colors, but it was $200 extra to clean all the pigment out of their machine to spray the white.
They quoted me $300 for the bedliner and $100 each to prepare and coat the sliders.
They also can do white and I suspect different colors, but it was $200 extra to clean all the pigment out of their machine to spray the white.
So any experience in a bed of a work truck? Gravel road damage is usually handled by little plastic mud flaps/fender flares so not sure that is a good test for the toughness of a bedliner.
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Those look really good!
Thank you.
I went ahead and added the bracing I mentioned earlier. That is the part of the sliders that can be used to stand on and to reach into the bed of the truck. I didn't really like it hanging out there without some kind of triangulated support.
Damn, that's a helluva job @SlugSlinger. You do good work, man. I sure wish I had a shop and tools to learn how to weld and do all that stuff. I am sure it takes years of practice to get as good as you (and prolly @kwaynem, too), but it looks like a damn handy skill to have. Do you have a pipe bending setup, too, to make the curves like that?
