All-Pro Bed Bars with the $20 Hi-Lift Mounts aka Waste of $20

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Copy Pasta from my own thread with some edits, just so that I may save someone a face palm...

Why All-Pro is All-Pro, and everyone shits on All-Pro, this is your tape...

Item: A set of Used All-Pro Bed Bars with Hi-Lift Mounts
I spent $100 on these because, I am cheap, I trust the seller and still do, and the bed bar portion actually works for what I want...

I will also say... I cannot, have not, still cannot, find a single picture of the hi-lift mounts from All-Pro that are on these things, not on their website, on this forum, no where... I tried... oh well. Now you will know...

TL;DR - Don't buy a pair of these bed bars and spend the extra $20 for the hi-lift mounts expecting to be able to mount a hi-lift with a RTT or literally anything else and some lights on the tabs... go buy some actual bed bars with actual useful hi-lift mounts on them...

Because, this is what that $20 gets you... the most useless, dumbest, worthless hi-lift mounts for a pair of bed bars in the existence of bed bars.

How are you ever supposed to use these without having to build some form of drop down off these to then mount your hi-lift, which yes, could be done... but why?

You have a pair of Bed Bars, one bar has light tabs welded on, normally that would go towards the rear at the tailgate for a dustlight, camp light, antenna, etc.

Then you have the other bar that would go up front... so then tell me how in the actual hell are you supposed to be able to get to your hi-lift out without two people, if it is just yourself, you undo one side... then what? Have the other side just chill against the bottom of your RTT? Maybe you are supposed to crawl under your RTT and unbolt it? Have a 8ft wing span? Be elastic girl? Keep a Trunk Monkey? WHO KNOWS!?!

But wait? If you don't build some form of drop down for the mount... how does it even work? How can you even mount a Hi-Lift and use the bed bars to hold a RTT? Or like in my case a roof basket for the time being? Luckily my roof basket has giant holes in the bottom and the hi-lift somewhat fits in it like a jigsaw puzzle... YA PUZZLES! I built the outside first, because I am smart. At least I tell myself when I go to bed at night.

Wait, do I mount the Hi-lift upside down with the nose pointed down? But that still puts the handle and everything above the bar... still seems pretty damn useless.

But what about the other bar? What do you do with the light tabs? They then have to go up front now... I guess that would work as I can put an antenna on one side and maybe mount a light upside down with a really long bolt and a spacer or something so you can see it... maybe? Or it can be lonely on that side... or I can put another antenna and be like Iceman in Smokey and the Bandit and run dual CB antennas, but in reality, only have one hooked up because who has time to hook up two of those...

You would think that if someone bought a PAIR of bed bars... and asked for a hi-lift mount, that they would put one bung in each of the bed bars on the sides, so you can mount your hi-lift like a normal human being and not like a special snowflake who at the end of the day melts into the ground and becomes fucking useless, just like these hi-lift mounts on this bed bar are.

I can completely understand if someone asked for a SINGLE bed bar with Hi-Lift mount and Light Tabs, but this is not the case... I actually performed a head scratch at one point trying to figure out the reasoning for this, I have never done that before and it be memorable.

So now, I am going to turn these bed bars into something that is not useless like my magnifying/light attachment for my purple gameboy color that I used to play Grand Theft Auto on in the back of my moms Maroon mini van on roadtrips. How you say? By putting actual useful welded bungs onto the sides of the bed bars... so that I can mount the hi-lift on the sides, like it should have been done. Then guess what, I will then be able to run TWO HI-LIFTS!!! BECAUSE TWO IS MORE THAN ONE! BECAUSE I CAN!

Who knows, I may even add something to the other side of the bed bars, so that the other side feels useful and not left out like Mary back at Prom in '07, I'm sorry Mary, maybe a shovel and axe mount or something cool like a road shower? Who knows, the possibilities are endless**!

I will complete this project later this week at some point, I have to go back to Lowe's as I need a different kind of U-bolt to attach the basket to the bed bar, but until then. Just know, that someone out there has put Ketchup on Ice Cream and thought it was the best thing in the world.














*If I am retarded and am doing this completely wrong, call me out on it, because I want to know what in the actual I am supposed to be doing here if that is the case... because I do not know.

**THE POSSIBILITIES ARE NOT ENDLESS, THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY! A THIRD HI-LIFT!

P.S. If this is not the right place, please move! Thanks!

 

Triggered af

 

Sorry not sorry af

 

Part out ​

 

Thanks for the idea of how to mount my Hi-Lift on my bed bar. I think Ill sell my Hi Lift mounts now

 

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I guess you have a single bed bar? Hopefully?

 

No I gots three plus accessory bars from All pro.

 

What do they look like?

 

What do the accessory bars look like or the bed bars?

 

Ah, I think I see what you mean by the accessory bars.

 

Here is a pic of the accessory bars


One is for Rotopax mounts. If you need or want I have some left over one with rotopax mounts and one with the two threaded insert nuts to fasten the hi-lift onto.