1 gallon black kit (should have ordered an additional quart). Ordered extra rollers. Bought a bunch of aftermarket paint brushes, but the bristles keep falling out. Ran out of Monstaliner about 7/8ths of the way through, some areas only have a very light coating. I could never get the texture as rugged as I wanted.
Penetrol is a paint additive, you can pick it up at any hardware store for about $10/can. It has a side use as a fiberglass restorative for boats--or Jeep hard tops. It takes a few days to dry and it's sticky when first applied, so do it in a garage and leave it alone or you'll get bugs and dust stuck on. Just paint it on with a sponge brush, I use less than 1/2 can for the hard top every few years. I mean, it's amazing the job it'll do. Your hard top will look freshly painted and shiny. I just put it on my 16 year old hard top a week ago, I'll get a pic up this afternoon. But google penetrol and Jeep hard top and you'll see some examples.
I LOVE Monstaliner in my tub. But I really think it's designed for hard surfaces like metals. Fiberglass can flex a bit and you don't want it to flake off.
Sprayed on 1 gallon interior and 2 gallons exterior. Used 2 medium coats to cover well and didn't worry about texture and then did 4 very light coats about an hour apart at 85 psi with the economy shutz gun to create a rougher texture. I think the texture turned out perfect for what I wanted. I didn't thin the liner either. I'll post completed pics once it's out of the booth and put back together.
Monstalined midnight special! this was right after application of a gallon. I have another gallon, but I ran into some issues and had to put the jeep away for the night while I took care of things. I'm suprised on how well the gallon covered the jeep. We'll see how it dries and looks tomorow. If it's good I might just wait till some other time to scuff up and apply the other gallon
how is this stuff holding up on floor pans etc? Is it drying out and chipping like some other bed liner kits? I did my YJ in 08 with duplicolor and its horrible. If this stuff is a good product which so far really looks to be I plan to use it when I repaint the jeep this spring. Even using it as a rocker guard on the quarters.
i have on on my zj and my monstaliner is starting to crack and pull up a bit on the sound deadening meterial. I would sand the deadening down if I were to do it again.
So i started the interior of my yj a few days ago.. i still need to finish scuffing the exterior before i apply the desert sand. i did 3 coats and had a qt gal left.
exterior is desert sand, i used the whole 2 gal, but 1 gal gave me 2 coats, so with the 2nd gallon i did 2 more coats and had enough left to do 2 coats on my sport bar. love this color combo, i just hate waiting for this to cure, i just want to put it back together.... So inpatient :drool:
Got my decals on. Used a heat gun after then were on to have them conform to the monstaliners texture. Will probably but a light satin clear coat over to prevent any water from getting in.
Help me out here. You said epoxy primer over Bondo before Monstaliner. Is there any wiggle room on this? I just discovered that epoxy primer has to be applied with a paint gun, which I don't have, but could probably borrow, but never used one before. I only have 2 small areas that are body filled. I will do this properly, but any chance I can just use a self-etcher in the spray can or something similar?
Thanks.
Help me out here. You said epoxy primer over Bondo before Monstaliner. Is there any wiggle room on this? I just discovered that epoxy primer has to be applied with a paint gun, which I don't have, but could probably borrow, but never used one before. I only have 2 small areas that are body filled. I will do this properly, but any chance I can just use a self-etcher in the spray can or something similar?
Thanks.
How far up the firewall is everyone going up on the inside? Are you going all the way up or taping off and stopping somewhere? If anyone has not gone all the way up do you have pictures of where you stopped?
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