Anybody make bed stabilizing braces for 3rd gens?

I've seen the stabilizing braces for 2nd gens, they look like 90° angle steel and they bolt into the inside of the rear bed corners.

Anyone make something similar for 3rd gens?

I'd like to get some and modify them a bit so I can quickly add and remove a steel bar across the inside of the tailgate. I don't like laying heavy stacks of lumber on my closed tailgate and thought it would be nice to have a piece of steel to help take the weight.

 

Total chaos makes a set as well as a guy here that makes them for 2nd gens that allegedly (I say allegedly as the only thread I've seen about them is on the 2nd get market place) fit the 3rds as well.

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Edit: Links - https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...owns-for-second-and-third-gen-tacomas.476123/

http://www.chaosfab.com/2016-2017-Tacoma-Rear-Channel-Bed-Stiffeners-48676

 

The 2nd gen brackets you are talking about should work in the third gen, the bed is the same except its height.

 

I agree. Why not just have the gate open those loads? And / or use a bed extender if you have longer bits.

 

I could lay the tailgate down and I agree it would be safer but it sure makes for easier hauling to just stack the lumber on the closed gate. Don't have to worry about stuff sliding out. I haul alot of 10 foot boards in my long bed taco with a toolbox...

 

@At The Helm, I bought these and they fit my 17

 

Cool thanks!

 

Anyone know if these fit with the OEM LED cargo bed lights?

 

These do fit third gens the same as second gens: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...owns-for-second-and-third-gen-tacomas.476123/

 

If these are the lights you're talking about, I can't see why they wouldn't work together.

 

They are. I didnt remeber where the lights were. Thought they were farther back towards the gate

 

Actually, the metal vertical section/pillar that the braces attach to are narrower on the 3rd gen so the bolts in the bed cannot be used with the 2nd gen Total Chaos braces. The braces need the holes along the bottom arm to be moved further back in order to fit. Therefore, no, the 2nd gen braces will not work in a 3rd gen.

 

Hmmm...several guys here have said they were able to use 2nd gen braces on a 3rd gen. Not sure who's right

 

Maybe some manufacturers make ones that will work on both. I assisted with an instal of 2nd gen Total Chaos bedside braces this weekend and they would definitely not work on a 3rd gen.

 

Mine do indeed work on third gens, six or seven guys have them installed. @PowerGuy just posted pics of them installed on his third gen.

 

Who was the manufacturer? The Total Chaos 2nd gen braces will not fit a 3rd gen.

 

The ones that I build

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...owns-for-second-and-third-gen-tacomas.476123/

 

The Total Chaos 3rd gen braces are different from the 2nd gen ones.

 

That's the one. I used on my '17

 

i think @ragofabrication makes them