Did some work on the 96
 

Well, I finally went ahead, quit bit#$%ng about wanting to get my rocker panels rhino lined, bought the kit, and did it myself. There were a couple of rust spots that were getting out of hand, one that actually broke through, when I was sanding :doh: and a couple of other dents that were starting to get bad.
I started by sanding down the rockers to the bare metal, on the cab, on both sides.
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I should have just sanded down the entire rocker panel, but my genius self decided I was going to do it in sections...I did it right on the passenger side though.
Applied first coat to drivers side
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Passenger side
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This was the dent on the passenger side, in the back of the cab that was starting to rust pretty bad. I sanded it down to bare metal, and linex'd it.
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Finished. Took me all day. I started around 8am, and didn't get done until around 6 or so, working straight through.
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Also, while I was in between coats, I decided to run another side project. I ripped out all the guts from my grid heater, since it hasn't been connected anyway. I figured I'd try and increase airflow a bit, and did some painting under the hood too.

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That looks great :tu: is the linex the roll on or spray? Im thinking about doing mine

It was the roll on...I've used the spray on, but I figured the roll on would hold better over time, especially if prepped correctly.

Looks good, that dent is in a crappy spot though, I hate those ones.:scare2:

Yeah, I'm not too worried...I've got another cab corner in the garage, I just need to find someone to install it...I'm not that good at welding.

Tare it up!:choochoo:

Bang up job my friend. :tu::c:

i thought you didnt wanna apply that stuff to bare metal!.... glad i read this...i am going to be doing the same thing but i was just gonna scuff the paint up.... bare metal it is!:tu:

Looks good man! keep it up!

The instructions stated to prep the surface, and apply to a clean surface. No primer needed, it could be applied to bare metal, so where I could, I sanded down to the metal. On the fiberglass dually fenders, I danced one down to the fiberglass, but on the other one, I just scuffed the paint and took off any chunks. You don't have to go to bare metal, but I figured if I could, it would seat better. Plus, since this truck had a crappy repaint job, I wanted to sand down through the two coats of paint and primer as much as possible. One thing I found out, was my kit came with a brush and a roller. I tried using the roller at first, but its so porous, that I had a hard time trying to get it to roll at first. I discovered if i used a brush to put the first light coat on, wait about an hour before I recoated it, the line x was tacky enough for the roller to bite and actually work correctly, to put all my subsequent coats on.