Frontrunner Bed Rack and Bed Rail Weight capacity

How’s the bars holding up bro?

 

I had them made by a local machine shop. Cost me $80.

 

Still no issues. I pull the tent off after each use and I’ve used it 2-3 times since that post. I don’t do many hard frame flexing trails or rock crawling though.

 

Sweet I appreciate the update I am planning on Getting the same bars

 

Thank you for the information on the Front Runner bed bars, I was looking for the same setup. I spoke to them today and they told me that they have a bracket that can help with the weight distribution of the truck. Like to know what you think of it or should I go to a machine shop and have them build me one?

 

They don't have a flange that sits on top of the cap like mine do, and as I run three bars the cost of those would be a lot more than what I paid because I didn't mention that I also got brackets for securing the RTT to the rails included in the $80 price. I'm in Kenya right now but I'll be back next week so I can post a drawing of the brackets that you could take to a machine shop to have made.

 

Has anybody bought the full rack with an extra set of lets? @Captqc i am really interested in looking at those drawings. Did you get them power coated too?

 

Heres the fab drawing. They bolt to the bed rails.

 

this is an old post... but I have a front runner roof rack on my cab and camper shell. I load it with kayks, a gun case full of recovery gear, another box with a jack and other assorted steel and walk on it no problem. I do not have the bed rack, though. But I guarantee the bed rail is the limiting piece of the equation and not the front runner rack.

 

Thank you! Any pics of the inside you have conveniently?

 

Good info to know, I've been struggling with a plan for carrying all the gear I need on longer trips.

 

Thought about going this route as well... but the thought of drilling 8 holes in my bed is hard to get past.

 

Any of you that run these Front Runner bed bars with a tent do you experience any movement? I’ve got an iKamper Mini on mine and when I’m driving I can see my tent moving side to side slightly. When I’m on some trails it’s a little worse. Before these I had an RCI rack and the movement wasn’t as bad... just want to make sure it’s not going to destroy my bed. I’ve got an email saved where I asked Front Runner if these bars with an iKamper Mini would work on my truck and they assured me they would be just fine.

I just ordered some bed stiffeners to be sure.

 

As you can see in my pictures I run three bards with my RTT. It is very solid, I haven’t ran this setup on any hard off-road trails but lots of old logging “roads”. After three seasons I haven’t seen any signs of bed flex or cracking and I don’t have bed stiffeners.

 

Thread revival for some current updates

 

My old setup with iKamper mini and the FR load bars never failed me but swapped them out for a rack. The iKamper looked like a bobble head on there and I couldn’t get over it.