well, I used raptor liner, and it turned out great for me.
I'll attach some pictures of the process and how it turned out at the end of it.
Basically all you need to do is pull the carpets, seats, center console plastics, and then unplug any wires and hang them up over the roll bars, and start prepping, prep is the most important part definitely. I probably sank 20 hours or so into prep alone, so it takes some time but I like the end result! Things you'll probably need to do are sand down every bit of the tub, you don't want any liner to flake off. That's the biggest step. That stuff that's under the carpet that looks all weird is sound deadening, I think it looks terrible and I decided to get rid of it personally. You can choose to leave it in or not.
The sound deadening stuff is a sort of rubber porous coating thing. I couldn't find a good way to get rid of this so I used a hammer and chisel. I heard air chisels work great but you have to be careful about punching through the tub, because it's pretty thin. I found the best way to get rid of it was to drench it in acetone, and that really softened it up and allowed me to scrape it off relatively easily. At least a lot easier than it was with just a hammer and chisel.
After that I sanded parts of it again, parts that I thought I had maybe missed, and used a grinder with a wire brush to get the very last tiny bits of any of that sound deadening stuff off, it was pretty much bare metal by the time I had grinded all of it off.
After that I wiped down the sanded areas (so basically the whole tub) with mineral spirits and a rag, then used some self etching primer on the spots of bare metal. At that point I masked anything off that I didn't want to get the liner on and started spraying!
Here's a picture of that gunk that I wanted to take off, you can also see that I still have everything wired in and that I didn't quite get my wires long enough :doh:
Scraping up that sound deadening, which was a real pain
Here's where I started using the wire brush on the grinder to really clean up what was left of the sound deadening, as you can see, dust gets everywhere and you'll get little wires fly off from the wire wheel, so wear eye protection and jeans or something, they hurt when you get them in your knees and bend down and mash them even further in!
here we are getting wires up and out of the way
and here's what it looked like after sanding everything down
again with everything sanded down
Here's everything, or at least as much as I thought i'd need masked off
and here you can see the bare areas that I primed, and I masked off the grounding stud and filled the holes for bolts with ear plugs. Make sure you get all of them! I missed one ground stud when I did it!
and finally, here's the finished product!
as you can see in the upper left corner of this one I went really heavy on it, wasn't sure what to expect and that was where I started spraying, so I suggest starting in a spot that's not very visible! After about 3 seconds you get the hang of it.
I used one of the guns that was recommended on the amazon page for raptor liner (it was like $10 or something), and attached a pressure regulator to it and set it at 65psi or so. Since my compressor is small-ish it couldn't quite keep up, so when it dipped down to 55psi or so I would let it fill back up.
also worth noting: After doing this my jeep smelled like paint for a good month or so, Luckily I did it in the summer and ran with the top and doors off for about 2 months, but it does smell, and with a top and doors on I would imagine it would smell pretty strong.
Good luck! :thumb:
