Dick's Dank Yank Wank Tank

Purity of essence.

 

If it's pure, why did Dick feel the need to wipe it off his truck?

 

and the movie (re)watch list grows some more.

 

Speaking of pure evil. Fucking bullshit Lego truck. Which is a disservice to Lego.

 

IKR ... I remember thinking exactly that when I installed my steel side rails.

 

..... cause where the hell else am I going to put this?

 

You win ... I got nothing.

 

This is precisely why I do not ever want to remove the bed rails off of my 2014. The paint is so damn thin and weak it'll scratch itself if anything sharp is within two feet.

 

I replaced mine with KB VooDoo products ... I was very pleased:

 

The reason I took them off was to take the opportunity to do some leak/dust protection before the new shell goes on. If you have a shell, you gotta have the rail caps. Ironically, the shells weight mashes them down, and the eggo waffle pattern under the rail caps combined with fine dust abrasives goes to town. Not a lot you can do to stop thatwithout some Herculean effort.

So fuck it, I just want to mitigate dust and water intrusion into the bed. Never had a leak with the old shell, just being proactive based on other stories. The other leak spot is two gaps at the top ends of the bed front wall. Another wonder of engineering. These need caulk beads, and you can't access them without removing the caps.

Originally I was going to do the Boyd XXXX silicone caulk treatment all the way along the top of each rail. But his images are gone after his "ban" and once I got the caps off, it became apparent how retarded such an approach would be. So I settled on laying in thick closed foam gasket to mitigate nuisance leaks and most of the dust coming up through the 60 quadrillion holes under there.

Rail caps came off pretty easily once I understood how the clips work, didn't break any.

I'll post pics a few pics and details later.

 

Didn't break ANY clips?

... lottery ticket time.

for promised "pics a few pics."

... seems fatherhood has tarnished that silver tongue a bit.

 

PICS OF PICS FTMFW

 

Some pics of pics

The Dust Waffle Abrasion Subassembly (DWAS) revealed.

Release and pull out a plastic push pin fastener fore and aft of the cleat track inside the bed (very carefully, I have pics if anyone wants them), then gently pull up the rear of the DWAS, being patient for the rear clip to release. Then gently work forward from the inside of the bed with a trim pry tool, and then alternate to pulling up with your fingertips on the outer edge of the DWAS. This is all best done fairly quickly from inside the bed. Take your time, and you won't break any clips.



Note that there is a rather narrow margin between the innermost DWAS dust ports (clip holes) and the interior of the bed where the cleat rails are. This is your narrow line of defense (NLOD). The inside curvature for the DWAS, and the way it cups over the top of the cleat rail provide and excellent dust delivery pumping system (DDPS) into your enclosed space if you have a cap. Brilliant engineering again, Toyota!



Holes everywhere, waffle structure everywhere. A nearly impossible sealing job, it appears. But you just need to focus on the NLOD, which is this area inboard of the inner row of clips. The waffle cavity is a hair over 1/2 inch in depth. 7/16 foam would probably seal the deal literally, but no such animal was on the shelf at the store or within my time constraints to get this shit done. So, blame Canada and your fucking metric system.


I used this 1/2 in. anyway, close enough.



Other photos aren't up yet, more to follow.

 

Now this is the work of the Silver Tongued Suit I remember, respect, and admire. Well done.

 

"DWAS" ... fuckin' priceless!

 

This may seem far fetched but my nickname in High School was Dust Waffle, go figure.

 

Dude, don't even best gen my ass.

 

Such a disappointing design flaw.

I'm with you. Mine never gonna see the light of day.