Transforming a Wrecked Auction Truck Into a Rugged DIY Camper - Bed Liner Paint Job

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Wow that thing in black will give hot boxing a whole new meaning hahahah

FYI, Solar Panels don't like heat, they should have airflow behind them. Sealing the weather tight to the roof may cause a reduction in both energy production and overall life. This is one of the reasons flexible solar panels tend to have a shorter life and are less efficient as they are often glued/attache directly to a surface with no airflow below them (in addition to over flex causing cracks).

I'd consider for the last coating, add some brighter color. Or the truck will become a mobile sauna.

A metal box painted black? That is gonna be hot as hell.

Hello, hi it's me, long time viewer, full time professional painter. Sealer is not what you want to spray between bare steel and any top coat. What you want is etching primer. It helps with adhesion and will prevent rust and corrosion in the future.

As someone has already mentioned, you'll want to have air run across both sides of the solar panels for the best results and longevity. The cooler they are, the better

the truck will be extremally hot in the summer

For the interior to avoid it becoming an oven, I'd consider installing all the wiring first, and then cover the interior with wooden deck or composite panels, and fill the walls with expandable foam for insulation.

Never thought watching paint dry would be entertaining but you found a way! Looks great!

I've sprayed a lot of Raptor Liner and I found that applying your build layers first then after that is complete, let it flash off then from about 4 or 5 feet away spray mist coats and you can increase air pressure slightly so you can apply mist coats from a farther distance to make the texture less coarse and stand back and watch the texture even out the whole surface, try different techniques till you get the finish you want, a really fine texture looks best and is actually easier to keep clean, the rougher the surface texture the more porous it becomes making it more susceptible to the elements, you might also want to replace the side emblems with new ones that aren't coated as it gives a more detailed look, being all black is also going to absorb a lot of heat from the sun so make sure to thoroughly insulate the camper body.

Everything is heavy and made from steel on this channel. The rear suspension is creaming already. 🤯

Those panels are going to cook. They need airflow behind the panels, they have a minimum step off speck.
Check RV Solar stuff out they have a lot of good mounting options. The flexible panels can be direct mounted by design but these aren't meant to do that.

You’re going to need some serious A/C BTUs for cooling. As others have mentioned…the exterior is going to absorb a lot of heat. Looks cool - though. The PAUSE all terrain trailers now have an option for an exterior coating similar to what you just used. 👍

Paint right over those footprints! lol Looks good though!

Keep one of the old bottles from the raptor liner kit. And you can buy rubber undercoat by the gallon for 35 bucks. Than you can use the raptor kit to apply the rubber under coating

I worked for a big campervan manufacturer in Germany. The outer walls there are textured metal (like small dimples), glued with PU glue to a wooden frame and insulating foam in between the frame spares.
When switching to smooth walls, there was a lot of (sometimes very expensive) trail&error to get the waves out of them.
The seams got sealed with a lot of sikaflex.... a lot... of sikaflex - especially when it came to the windows.

Black roof?
This can get tough.
If raptorliner is available in other colors, I suggest using white on the top.
This is lots better temperature wise. Otherwise your AC (if any) has got a hell of a job to do.

Its cool you pointed out the mistakes and gave us advice

I’d go retro and throw some wood veneer on the center band of the cabin to cover some of the warping

After you did the raptor liner on the FJ , I did my Nissan Titan . It still looks amazing and it has been 4 ish yrs. Love that product.

Even riveted sheets turn out wobbly cause of the tension caused by the rivets just like tack welds. Truck looks great!

I love your "tell the truth" moments when you explain your mistakes. Greatness learns from mistakes!

Great to see this build going forward Chris.

White raptor liner would look great on this

Heating the sheat metal high spots and quenching with a wet rag works well

LONGHAUL TRUCKS: dry-vans are usually an open skeleton frame that is covered by sheets that are a layer of aluminum, then a plastic poly layer, then another aluminum. opposing sides stick out so that they can overlap and be riveted together using air hammers and expanding soft rivets (air hammer on the outside, someone inside with a heavy brick of steel that they press against the rivet that is getting hammered, squishes it and pulls the two sheets flat together, repeated x 2-3000 per side of the trailer). the wrinkles you see on dry van trailers are because those sheets are literally the carrying strength of the trailer (cut the walls off and the frame cant even handle a pallet of shingles), and it shows how heavy it is by wrinkling. if you notice. the wrinkles are always sort of pointing at the middle of the trailer at the floor. (source: i was a trailer body and frame repair tech for one of the largest trucking companies on earth for several years, crete carrier corp)

Doing texture is similar to doing sheetrock texture. You don't go side to side like traditional paint spraying. You do that you'll get stripes. It's keeping the gun pointed straight to the area being sprayed and its small circle movements as you go left to right or visa vera overlapping your wet edges. But looking good, can't wait to see all the cool stuff that gets installing inside. 👍

Paint job looks fantastic. This is my favorite B is For Build project since the Nissan GTR a few years ago.

The wobbles only add to the overall look and story of the meth raptor, looks good so far 👌

Definitely upgrade those rims to something black with machined accents. Maybe have Oscar build some boxy polygon looking step sides to match the camper???? Yeeeeeeahhhhh. 🤘 I'm still dumfounded how easily and fast he copycat fabbed that merci hood hinge.
O is for outstanding, Oscar!

Looks sweet!

I strongly recommend looking into a product like Henry Tropi-cool. As many others have said that thing is going to get very hot inside. I used Tropi-cool for the roof on a bus build, did only half of it first to test, and was able to measure around 20+°F lower surface temps inside vs paint when in direct sunlight. Just some advice from my personal experience.

Nice to see the old bus again👍🏻

My thought was how bad the gas milage would be. Now the bed liner will cause even more drag. Not knocking the build, just an obsession. Love the content.

A lot of RV and boxtruck companies started to use 3M VHB (Very High Bond) double sided tape in recent years. It's very strong and you don't have the rivet look.
It also makes it watertight without the need of seemsealer.

Dude… that guitar in the time lapses is driving me CRAZY. I pray to god this isn’t a staple in the videos moving forward. Holy moly.

Tyger side step is amazing and It will match your paint job perfectly!

That is going to be a sweet camping rig when you are finished! It's going to have that "TINY HOUSE VIBE" to it, the only thing you need now is a compost toilet and you will be done!

Thx for the update. This is such a cool build can’t wait to see how it turns out. Hopefully the next one comes a little sooner 👍🏼👍🏼

This build is getting the creative juices flowing 🧃

Nice to finally see this project getting some love from you guys again!! This thing is absolutely awesome - even with the wobbles.

with all the crap going on in my life, when a video of yours comes out, i stop what im doing and give my undivided attention. thank you for the content

I about knocked myself out when I saw the thumbnail!!!!! Lol. Tripped over everything trying to get to everyone to show this video. Im loving it!! It's really looking good....!!!👍✔️

Perfect opportunity to add woodgrain from old station wagon. Think Chevy Chase and "Summer Vacation".

I love the overland build! I'm planning to do a truck cabin build myself soon and I love these videos for inspiration. Can't wait to see the interior videos!

Awesome and outstanding as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

Glad you took the time to fix it

There is a time to weld and a time to glue. You could have used a structural acrylic like the LORD 810/20GB, that would seal and bond. Glue beats rivets and less heat. Contact me if you're really curious.

If KITT the 1982 Pontiac Trans Am Knight Rider, was a truck. 😂
Put a red light bar in the hood!

You will need Clearance lights in front and back of the camper with some reflective light in the back only. I would also suggest to add couple of led marker lights on the sides since it’s been extended. Over all, nice project 👍

A wobbley is crazy 😂😂

That thing looks like the armored trucks that cartels use when things go south here in mexico

Chris one of the things that stops the wobble used in the UK Coach building is the use of panel bond sometimes rivets but these days it can also be rivets in a channel that folds over the rivets but the panel bond is a major thing no leaks, strength and no heat.

I think that is the reason a lot of RVs have crazy decals down the sides. It distracts from imperfections in the surface area. The center section of that RV would make some good space for vinyl signage for the channel.

That thing is gonna be hot A/F in the summer. Good luck to your A/C unit.

You could move the engine inside chassis/frame, it would be cool, a mid-engined ram and even better than that, the camper part would be even warmer ).

Love the truck build!!

The truck looks AMAZING!!!!!

Love it. Can't wait to see the interior.

Super cool, and I agree I think more rugged side steps would tie it together

A really light weight interior maybe modular so you can remove bits when not in use or make it into a multi functional back

I love the raptor liner, I've painted 3 different cars with it so far.

Love a raptor paint job, your old work truck from back in the day made me paint a car in black bed liner, looked bad arse 😜

Chris the other thing you could have done in weld your square tube bracing BUT don't stitch weld the skin to it use structual eurothane or winshield eurothane and bond the skin and only weld your joins and single spot welds on the corners of the plate cheers from down under

That method of spraying works great I figured it out when doing my bed… I had too many streaks and misted over it to blend in

Chris, will you weigh your truck before and after the interior appointments are put in? Curious viewers would like to know!

On the wavy skin/fixing situtation, think the cost effective way to handle it may have been rivets and then trim strips of some sort so that you don't have to look at them. Of coarse that may or may not work depending on the complexity of your shape and how large the panels are.

One way to eliminate those issues is by beding the ends of the sheets metal and make a close hem to provide more rigidity to the sheet.

Looking good. I would have done red Bed liner. That black is going to be hot.

I've used bed liner a few times, and find using a primer gun with a 1.8 or 2mm tip and 15% reducer and a wide fan is perfect for the final drop coat.

That’s called a drop coat, use it for metallics too if you’re having an issue getting it to lay even you come back with a wider spray pattern and a bit more distance from your panel and spray it medium wet at a 45° diagonal pattern so for instance a fender you would spray from the top right of the panel diagonally down to the bottom left with a 50% overlap. The eye can’t see that angle in metallics on a panel so it can help hide any issues with striping and mottled looking flake if that makes sense. Works great with textured and satin clears too.

Omg... Finally something with wheels.

Absolutely love this truck

Wow, that looking really good. Nice job guy's

Looking good!

You can avoid uneven sides by putting it together when it's really hot, so you assemble it at max temp it will ever see, like they do with railways.

Might need some color so it doesn't look like a swat truck around Portland 😂.

Truck looks awesome, great job. I really want to do this with my truck since the clear coat is all destroyed by the central Oregon high dessert sun.

Not only red and yellows for DOT but bright white backup lights are a must as well as more lights in front for off road at night if needed. Area lights all around for the surrounding of your vehicle while it is parked is also a must in my opinion. Much easier to do it now before the interior is in and it makes for a better user experience to have reliable outdoor lights around your RV. If you want to get fancy put get dimmable ones and put them on a dimmer so you can have them set to low for mood lighting or bright for tasks that need it.

I like your nerve to take on these crazy projects

Most high end trailers have a seamless outsider aluminum paneling. They are panel bonded on. Always have wobble regardless but looks really nice.

Nice job guys

You really should use an hvlp, it gives a nicer texture, it's much more controllable, and it has a nice wide fan. If you do use an hvlp though dont do the mist coat at the end because it will be sandy and scratch easily, black will show fading much more than a color. I did my 98 cherokee and a few vehicles for friends.

It's great to see the hippo getting worked on again.

I think you should add pontoons to the sides, so you can have another boat!😂

the "step" as you called it is a rock slider for when you are off road. The look of it is fine, but I would 100% make it black

The best way to get the wobbles out is tension the sheet of steel with a chain winch on one side before welding it to the truck, that is how many fabricators build buses and trailers with long sheets of steel.

Great work! Love your videos. God bless

You could always buy an old semi trailer & use the panels from that. Would be a lot of drilling out rivets, but would get you 2 lengths of 50' walls of good material for a few grand.

That is gonna be so bad ass when y'all are done!

You could leave sheet metal larger. weld the small sheets on prior to cutting to size. you'll get more heat distribution throughout your large sheets while welding. Then cut off excess.
Or you could add some folds so it becomes a larger panel.

Kind of an odd mix but it may just be crazy enough to be cool. Once you all have finished the truck, you should try to do a collab with Coyote Works. He also collab's with Rough Country for his overlanding and could help put the new rig to the test while showing you some cool sites.

lol high gloss will show more waves 🌊

Truck looks cool

I can’t decide if this is gonna fail harder than the boat or not. Either way it has been entertaining!

job well done looks awesome.

It's looking awesome it looks like a tank

That misting trick you were talking about is what I have always used to get the perfect satin paint job out of a can of Rustoleum gloss black. Best part is, it's on my grille and last longer than roll bar paint 😂

As Taboo is Spray bedliner texture coating a vehicle surface is in the Auto world, it really does have an Oddly Satisfying application and appearance ...it really does give it a unconventional look but also takes the worry out of delicate paint making it life proof which translates to reduced stress.