*THE RTT Owners Thread (With BS)*

What height bed bars should I be looking at for mounting a RTT and still be able to strap a canoe on the actual roof rack? Looking at pictures it seems like a 4-6" rise should be low enough to clear while still giving space in the bed beneath the tent. Sound about right?

 

What's the height from the bedrails to the bottom of your RTT if you dont mind measuring?

 

Love this tent!

 

16" I believe. I can measure and post up exact measurement tomorrow


Measured this morning, it is in fact 16"

 

Nice! That's a sweet setup. I need to get myself a RTT. I'm like itching to get out and do some camping!!

 

i came from a backpacking background so i been used to small light weight ground tents and this is my first RTT. in comparison from RTT to ground tent. smittybilt is amazing so far. so my review might be biased.

 

can you post a pic? also are you removing it each time you fold it up or leaving it?
thank you

 

I need some help on a roof rack or bed rack. I have a stock roof rack and I know you can't use that but I have seen Yakima cross bars on the stock one and it seems to hold find. I want bed bars not a bed rack for my tent if I go that route. My wife wants tent up high and I don't wheel that much anymore. Any help would be great.

 

I have mine mounted on a Frontrunner bed rack. Works well. When the tent is mounted and closed, it sits only 2" above the roof of my cab line. Still plenty of space and access to the bed. I ordered mine thru Pelfreybilt

 

At the moment I can't but next time I open the tent I can. Its too hot and humid here now to bother with the tent lol...

But you can not leave the bars attached because the tent wouldn't fold up properly if it were attached all the time... Bt if you climb up the ladder and look straight up dead center of the tent above the zip door to go inside youll see a gap in The outter material with a support bar running through there... You line up the clip on the bar you are holding with it and give it a good push to clip on then angle it to the right or left and slide it onto the overhang support bar and it should clip right on

 

Not an RTT subject, but close enough. When my RTT is loaded for camping, I always have the ARB awning. Bought the tent body for the awning, but my brackets on my bed rack were still a little too low so we fabbed up some new ones yesterday and got it to the proper height to hang the awning tent perfectly. It's the new basement to my RTT instead of using an annex.

Fabbed up a 3/16" steel platform to the bed rack, mounted the ARB awning bracket to that, and then fabbed up a 7 1/2" riser plate to mount the awning to. The ARB bracket has 6" long slots in it so that I can loosen 2 bolts and slide the awning further away from the truck to get the awning body to hang vertically. Stows back in closer to the truck up against the RTT for travel.


We welded a new CB antenna mount to the rear bracket, too. You could tow an ATV from that thing.


The awning tent body has a higher side closest to the truck so that the awning slopes down and away and sheds water.




Barely fits in the garage by 1/4"

 

I'm looking to get a pretty nice RTT setup for my 2016 TRD OR 4x4. Have any of you had any experience placing an RTT on the Warrior bed rack shown here?

http://www.morris4x4center.com/warr...war4810.html?gclid=CLXXsuWl3c0CFRVsfgodS84MvQ

 

Whats the over all height of your truck? With my tent on the highest point besides the CB antennas is 7'5"!!!!

 

6'2" on mine, with the RTT

 

7'6"

 

Do you have a pickture of how it sits? I forget what your truck even looks like man haha! Haven't seen you in forever and I love that your name is still red

 

New bumper going on next week with new lights. But this is how it sits currently... Got that bro lean. Yeah need new leafs....

 

Being in AK I'm somewhat limited on selection based on getting a RTT shipped up here. I want one comfortable for two people plus a dog and prefer the styles with the ability to attach annex that encloses the ladder for extra weather protection and privacy. Any suggestions or input based on the options below is appreciated.

ARB Simpson III - $1485 shipped (with annex added, $1740 shipped)
Tepui Autana Sky - $1900 shipped
Tepui Autana ruggedized - $2200 shipped
Tuff Stuff - $1225 shipped
Smittybilt Overlander XL - $1225 shipped (w/o annex)
23Zero Litchfield - $1725 shipped
Bigfoot Discovery w/ annex - $1776 shipped

I can get a Tepui Kukenam, Smittybilt Overlander and ARB Kakuda as well but they don't offer the fully annex enclosed entry I'm after. There's a dealer a 6hr drive (one way) that can order CVT tents for a $175 shipping charge but I'd prefer to not spend a full day driving to pick one up if possible.

 

Did I see you in northern New Mexico last week?