Enclosed Snowmobile Trailer Floor Coating??

[JCockerill]

I'm looking to coat my enclosed trailer floor with a bedliner type coating. I priced a line-x tyoe coating like i have in my truck and love it. They want around $1000-1200 to do my 7X14 v nose trailer. way more than i want to spend. so i'm looking at the diy coatings like herculiner and bed armor. well it seems herculiner is the leading roll on do it yourself coating. my question to you guys is. . has anyone done this? and how does it hold up to carbides and studs running over it all the time? I want to install ski guides and track mats but they are crazy money and dont cover whole floor. . plus it's an inline trailer and the sleds go in in many configurations. . thanks for the help.

 

[Wertles]

Any of the bed liners will NOT hold up to carbides or studs. The Line-X or others will not let the carbides slide and they will only grip into it ripping it all to pieces. There is no other good replacement for ski guides. A cheap and effective low cost solution for ski guides is actually to go to the place where they do the professional Line-X and ask them for the old plastic bed liners. I took about three of them home, cut them 8 inches wide and screwed them down. Take the tailgate covers, trim them up a little and they can be used for traction mats. Another low cost traction mat is to make wooden strips and place them on your deck (very similar to the hard plastic ones they sell for $$$). They keep the track from freezing to the floor and can be easily replaced if you chew them up with pics. With any of these solutions, you can out fit your entire trailer for under a 100 dollars and it will look nice. I did a 2 place clamshell like this a few years ago and it looks and functions great. For my 4 place enclosed, I spent the large $$ and got low profile ski guides only because I was pressed for time to get the trailer ready and didn't have time to run around. If your trailer is empty and nothing on the wood, a good wood preservator like CWF will seal and protect the wood for a few years.

 

[JCockerill]

thanks for the tips. . I will look into this. . glad i asked before i spent the money. i kinda had the feeling the bedliners would tear.

 

[Powder Extreme]

Wertles is right, Carbides will chew the heck outta the floor. I'm sure you've seen how they scratch up cement, let alone anything else. Another cheap alternative is to buy a set of "ski boots". They look kinda like the old plastic ones that you could bolt on to your metal skis for better floatation. Only they go on over the carbides and everything and you strap them to your skis. Used only for transporting, can't ride with them, but prevents the carbides from chewing up your trailer. I have a couple of sets I slip on over friends' machines when I'm hauling them. Have the plastic ski guides for my sled on one side of the trailer.

The old plastic bedliner idea works quite well for ski guides and is pretty cheap. Another thing that works great for traction is to use an old worn out track off a machine. Just roll it out and screw it down with some big washers, works great!

 

[BIGNASTY]

If you have a rock quarry of cement plant near you might go and ask for the belt material for conveyer belts I have a stock trailer and the Mules were slipping and I put this down and bolted it into the floor worked great for my app. dont think it will tear up quite as bad as line X. And it was free in my case. Its really thick rubber