Bed Rack and Tonneau Cover

This thread is a lifesaver. Ordered a Literider as a result. @DenverMojo your pictures helped a lot! Thanks!

 

Just arrived. It's so easy to install I put it on even though the bed rack is still weeks away.

 

All the waterproofness, all the visibility, all the bedspace, all the RTT's. Love it.

 

Dude that looks amazing!

 

Thank you kind sir. It's all thanks to for the idea. It still leaks in the front cause there is a small gap from the weather strip but not bad. If u have any questions about it let me know I'll try to help out

 

I'll send you a message

 

Ok, my bed rack finally arrived. Sometime in the next couple weeks, I'm going to see if I can do this as well. Some things I didn't take into account that I can already see are going to cause issues:

My bed rack is aluminum, so it's pretty thick, 3/8" it looks like. Also, it's not perfectly straight, meaning there are some bends and empty spaces. All this is going to make the tonneau sit very tight, if I can manage it all.

On the upside, this bed rack looks awesome!

 

keep us updated please

 

Whoops, I meant 3/16" thick. Not 3/8". But in any case, it looks like I'm losing a good 1/2" or more total width. Rolling up the cover is going to be a chore to say the least. Once I have a free weekend, I'll tackle this. I'll post up any mods I had to do (like cutting or bending) here. I really hope I can make this work.

 

@Arlaghan what tonneau cover?? but you should be fine the only thing that sucks is sliding the t nuts to the right hole after the install

 

I have the Literider as well. I had it installed for a month or so, then the rack arrived so I rolled it up and removed it to install the rack. As a test I put the rolled up cover in place to test the fit. The metal parts should fit, but the extra width of the tonneau wouldn't, which leads me to think it's going to be hell to roll it up between the rack posts. It might still be doable. I'll try to get as far as I can before having to do any modifications. As for the sliding mounts, a trick I used is to buy one 3" bolt and I used it to "grab" one side so I could pull it/hold it still while I threaded the other side. Once tight, I removed the 3" bolt and used a normal length one. Otherwise the included bolts would have been too short!

 

I already did mines with a tonno pro cover and the all pro rack it was a pain since I had to do some retrofitting but all went well I have some leaks from rain on all corners but nothing bad to be like oh shit. hopefully it works out. I have the roll up too and it is a pain to roll up but hey give and take, you give up the tri fold for a roll up and to have a rack lol, and snap just realized you are in WA lol nicesuh.

 

Just to clarify my previous post, my rack's sliding T-nut is a bar with a threaded nut at each end.

 

yup I have that too I just used a pick to slide them in place

 

@tacoshin since moving to WA, my wife has been subtly goading me into getting into off-roading (though she suggested a Jeep) but I just can't NOT have a truck. So many places to see in WA, but I still need to learn how to 4x4. Slowly getting my gear... Aiming for the minimum (RTT, rack, etc) before I go nuts with armor and such, so my initial trails will be somewhat limited.

 

@Arlaghan yeah man I had enough saved up to get everything at once luckily last year on my b day, but also I sold my DJ equipment so I was able to get my RTT as well lol but yeah I don't go off roading yet maybe just don't wanna messup my daily. plus wanted to keep it light overlanding. hopefully later down the road I will end up doing it but till then just gonna stay as a poser lol

 

Hah! Nothing wrong with that. When I bought my truck, I saw a lifted one at the dealer. I pointed and said: gimme that on my truck. Luckily, they steered my right (I think). Toytec Boss and BFG KO2. Now that I know a little more, perhaps I would have explored more options on the lift, but I am extremely happy with what I got. I opted out of the predator steps when I learned what rock sliders were. Probably going to get those next. Just need to figure out this tonneau cover thing. I expect there will be more leaking, so I got my stuff weather resistant but I wanted to keep things from getting drenched and dusty. Plus there's a thing called black caulk.

 

Are the top bars of rack flush with the roofline?

 

Depends mines is lower just the height of the window

 

Anybody use the kbvodoo bedrock we the T cover brackets?