Double Diamond Fabrication - 3rd Gen Tacoma Flatbed.

Got rear ended a few months ago, so I decided to put a flatbed on it. If you're in Oregon, and interested, the guys at double diamond fabrication were easy to work with.

 

Tacoma Flatbed Products – Double Diamond Fabrication Website is good. I have no need, but it looks like a quality product.

 

It looks heavy.

Would like to see an all aluminum kit.

 

Yeah it's heavy. Mpg is suffering lol

 

Did you install the flatbed on yourself? And do you like it so far?

 

Does it dump?

 

It looks like it is missing something, but I can't put my finger on it?

 

You referring to a West Virginia flag?

 

Interestingly, it's not necessarily the extra weight that is affecting your mileage. Believe it or not, it is the lack of bed sides and a tailgate. It is not super intuitive. But the "bubble effect" of that air volume inside the bed is actually very helpful with reducing drag.

For those of us old enough, remember in the maybe the early 1990s when driving around with your tailgate was a thing? LOL

I think you may experience a lotta sag if you're loaded down unless you add a leaf spring. But otherwise that looks extremely well done! The headache rack is *chef's kiss*.
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Here's my suggestion for perhaps a next iteration. Not to scale. Just a quick sketch.