DIY Bed Rack with ARB Tent

Hell yeee!! I'll give you a bump for saving people money and simple build!!!

 

Took this today.

 

Thanks. Yeah that would be the optimal thing to do for sure. How easy is it to replace the
Black plastic? Wonder if I ever trade it in, slap new ones on and nobody knows

 

Black plastic is very easy to change but probably expensive unless able to get used. I am just going to paint mine. Trade in values are pretty bad now. Mine is only worth 21,000 for the trade in. If I take the rack off I will just plug up the holes with black rubber stopper and call it a day. I wanted to get a Tundra but trade is so little that I decided to wait and be the 4th gen Tundra guinea pig. Lol

 

Thanks, even the park ranger admired the color.
I would've painted it all black, but my BAMF expo bars are finally coming in this week.
Only real drawback is the struts are putting some pressure on the plasic bedside caps, but nothing extreme.

 

I had trouble finding something that worked with the backflip mx4 tonneau and allowed me to utilize full bed if needed.I made rails to bed sides and some cross bars to mount RTT or Basket.

 

Looks amazing!!!! You could sell those. What kind f bolts did you use?

 

3/8 316 tainless Steel mounting hardware, rack was 1-1/4” aluminum

 

nice work! clean and pragmatic. I'm currently designing one in SolidWorks. Literally just sent some models to my friends fab shop today.

 

Would love to see how you built this

 

I would have bought that. I know that drilling holes into the bed is not ideal but if done properly and sealed up would be fine.

 

I removed the plastic bed caps to find the voids on the top to make sure I hit metal. then drilled out the bare metal bedside and installed RIVNUTS and used epoxy an let it set for 24 hrs. the bed material is actually decently thick and the RIVNUT grabbed really well. then I drilled out the plastic cap and re assembled. I used double sided sticky 3M tape before putting the plastic bed cap on so it didn't shift around. worst part is getting over the fear your gonna mess up your new truck haha.

 

Curious on the details to bolting through the bed rails specifically the access. I’m interested in bolting my shell down to eliminate the clamps. I like how your setup turned out. Unistrut is great.