Rhino liner

[elizilla]

I picked the Ural up yesterday. The Rhino Liner looks pretty good. Not perfect, but the slight imperfections fit with the general look of the bike. :) It is still outgassing a bit; it has that fresh paint smell. I reinstalled the horn, and the wiring for the lights is on the frame so it didn't have to come off. So the only thing that's not back in, is the accessory power outlet. Which I plan to change. I just need to decide how I want to do it.

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[pi3832.livejournal.com]

Did you have much of a UDF at the Rhino-liner place?

[elizilla]

When I took it in for the quote, yeah. When I took it back for the work, they had already seen it so it wasn't so exciting to them.

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Rhino-liner where?

[elizilla]

Rhino Liner is coating that is used for truck bed liners. It is commercially applied. It's quite thick and has a nubbly texture. It is some kind of plastic and it is hard to damage - you can scrape at it with a knife and get nowhere. I had it in my last pickup truck and it was good because you could just drive up with a front end loader full of firewood and dump it in, and not worry about dents and scratches in the paint.

The painted surfaces of the sidecar were all red, inside and out. The black in the pictures is the Rhino. I had it applied to the inside of the passenger compartment, the inside of the trunk, the underside where stones would be kicked up by the road, and wrapping around a little bit on the sides to cover the spots that are all rusty on some of the older sidecars I have seen.

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what the liner is. I was just confused about where you'd apply it on the bike. :) I guess they had to take the seats out to apply it on the inside?

What did it have before? Just a coat of paint?

[elizilla]

The car was painted red inside, same as the outside. That red paint is really soft, btw. It left red chalky marks on anything left in the trunk for more than a few miles. And it scuffs and chips really easily.

I had to take the seats out, and also the wiring that was inside the car. They handled the rest. The seat is easy - reach down the crack at the back, find the strap, and pull. The bottom lifts out. Once you have the bottom out, the back pulls forward at the bottom, and angles out, leaving a large opening into the trunk. I put the seat back - it only took about 30 seconds. I haven't reinstalled any wiring yet. There was this ridiculously huge fuse panel assembly in there. A sort of metal platform about six inches square, with sharp edges. Sticking out from that, a generic fuse box with four fuses, under a clear plastic cover also with sharp edges, and a junky cig lighter glommed onto the side, with more sharp edges. Turned out three of the fuses weren't even attached to anything, and the fourth just went to the cig lighter plug. This was stock, not aftermarket, but it was really crappy. I'm not putting any of it back in. Passengers kept banging their knees on it. I'll put a better fuse panel in the trunk, where it won't get banged around or rained on.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it turned out very nicely. Congrats!

-B

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Sounds like typical Ural quality. ;) It looks like the bed liner will do it good.