Removing the stone guard from the bed side

[MarkS]

Has anybody tried removing the urethane stone shield on the lower bed side. I have an orginal paint truck and would like to preserve the paint.

[VileZambonie]

Not without making a disaster. Why do you want to remove it? I'd leave it alone til you are ready to repaint.

[MarkS]

That's what I thought... I was looing into this because the truck has great original paint with the exception of the yellowing urethane stone shields.

[VileZambonie]

You could always overlay new ones

[Captkaos]

Is it dry and cracking or just discolored.  I removed mine but it was all dried up.  Used a heat gun, goo-gone and a plastic scraper.

[MarkS]

There is some cracking and yelowing. Were you able to save your paint?

[Captkaos]

Yes, and it took at least 2 hours for EACH side:

[MarkS]

Anybody know where you can buy the stone shields? I know most don't want to replace them and I don't like the looks either but I'm trying to keep it true to original.

[oldredtruck]

check at local window tint shops - alot of them - at least here do it with some special 3m film - I guess its fairly common for these exotic car guys to get that stuff put down low on their cars for stone chip protection - I almost put em on old red but decided against it... I was scared off by the razor trimming they do to fit em on the vehicle...there is no template for most of that stuff.

[Captkaos]

I can understand wanting to be original, but at some point you gotta draw the line.  Those chip guards will eventually dry up and crack again and look bad.

[gbskunk2006]

check at local window tint shops - alot of them - at least here do it with some special 3m film - I guess its fairly common for these exotic car guys to get that stuff put down low on their cars for stone chip protection...

I made the mistake of not replacing the stone guard last year when I finally got my truck back on the road.  Now I'm going to have to prep and repaint those sections on the bed but this time, I will definitely install some of that 3M film as protection from stone chips

[thirsty]

Years ago I got some of the same material from a friend that worked at a GM dealership to put on the lower fairing of my street bike. He said they had it to put on vehicles that traveled on gravel roads alot. It was great stuff. I cut it to fit with scissors and just stuck it on. You couldn't see it and it worked perfect.

[SUX2BU99]

Those were factory applied? Interesting. Back in the day I saw alot of truck that had the aluminum add-on ones on there. Then years later I saw the rust that formed behind them   lol

[VileZambonie]

It might be worth checking with a dealer to see if they have a source for them still

[Captkaos]

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Scotchgard_Paint_Protection/Film

http://store.cleartastic.com/clplfiinburo.html