Herculiner question

I'm starting to prep inside my xj to put in herculiner, but after looking at a bunch of threads, everyone seems to just roll it on. If I bought a paint sprayer for my air compressor, would this work and would i need a special kind for the thickness of the herculiner. Or is it even worth it?

its too thick to spray with a regular paint gun and you wont be able to clean it when finished. They do make special guns for it. I believe eastwood has them.

i sprayed mine on with a cheap harbor freight gun. nothing special. used some acetone to thin it out a bit

Just remember to clean your hands thoroughly before answering nature's call.

pokey said:

its too thick to spray with a regular paint gun and you wont be able to clean it when finished. They do make special guns for it. I believe eastwood has them.

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Undercoating gun might work?

Everything I've seen is that an undercoating gun is the hot ticket for Hurculiner. I'll probably be picking one up when I do the bed of my truck.

skrause said:

Undercoating gun might work?

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I would think so since its made to spray the same type of product.

Undercoating gun is the only good way to spray non heated application liner.

I rolled mine personally.. That way you can get a good coverage regardless.. I did my floors,dash,and door panels on my 79 blazer.. I used a gallon and a quart to lay it on thick and it still was not as thick as I wanted it..

What kinda prep did you do? I am going to be doing some liner stuff to my truck at some point and ive also been doing a lot of reading up. Did you just use a wirewheel on a angle grinder and clean off all the dust? or did u also strip it with some kind of paint striper? Or a other method?

when ur done pls post some pics
and good luck!

anyone got link to herculiner stuff im thinkin bout doin this too but havnt read up on it.

What I did was wire wheel the piss out of it.. Then I grinded the rust spots back to metal. I then blew all the **** out with air nozzle and followed that with cleaning with xylene (I think thats what its called) acetone should work decent as well. blew it out one more time before I got started.. Ohh yeah I masked what I didnt want to get lined brake,gas, etc.. do a google search for herculiner...

Its super easy i've done 4 rigs no i love the stuff. I roll it on just because i was told i can get a huge $fine$ for spraying with out a both or filtration system. According to a neighbor who sprayed his on he said he would never spray it again!


I guess over spray is a problem and everything else that goes alongh with painting with a gun. As far as prep goes, sand everything you want coated down to bare metal or atleast through a few layers. I used like a 36grit soft pad i believe after i sanded to go back and really scuff up the surface. I blew it out then why it all down with final klean(body shop product) and then taped and rolled on. I dont have the best pics but heres a few to give you an idea